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Now that former President Donald Trump has started to lean into the policy differences between himself and Vice President Kamala Harris — as he did last week in his speech in Asheville, North Carolina, in interviews with Breitbart and X owner Elon Musk and in his news conference on Thursday — the 2024 presidential campaign is starting to look like the 1980 presidential campaign. In that campaign, a fading and clearly outmatched incumbent was opposed by a rival who inspired fervor in some and anxiety in others. The mainstream media still placed considerable weight behind the incumbent, and the campaign’s...

Once there were five-year-old twin boys, one a pessimist and the other an optimist. Wondering how two boys who seemed so alike could be so different, their parents took them to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist took the pessimist to a room piled high with new toys, expecting the boy to be thrilled. But instead he burst into tears. Puzzled, the psychiatrist asked, "don't you want to play with these toys?" "Yes," the little boy bawled, "but if I did I'd only break them." Next the psychiatrist took the optimist to a room piled high with horse manure. The boy yelped...

It just occurred to me the other day about Karl Rove nearly being rail-roaded into indictment by the Demoncrats. How much trouble did this cost him? How much in legal bills? How much in lost respect? How much in lost sleep and stress and torture to his family? It then occurred to me that I would not want to make THIS man mad at me. Could it be that ALL of the optimism on Rove's part, ALL of the confidence and bravado in what he knows versus what the Democrat liberal establishment knows, is due to the fact that DESTROYING...