John Daniel Davidson

5 days ago | thefederalist.com | John Daniel Davidson

It didn’t take long after Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, emerged onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday as the new leader of the Catholic Church for social media commentators on the right to begin decrying him as “Francis 2.0.” This snap judgment was based largely on his social media history of reposting criticisms of President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance on immigration policy, as well as a few reposts of left-wing claptrap on climate change and...

6 days ago | thefederalist.com | John Daniel Davidson

The cultural parasites of the left have struck again. This time, they have erected a bronze statue of a 12-foot-tall anonymous overweight black woman in New York City’s Times Square, where it will stand for the next month. Matt Walsh asked on X whether it was a particular person “or just a statue of a random black woman for no apparent reason?”It is indeed a random black woman, and the randomness is for a very specific reason.

1 week ago | thefederalist.com | John Daniel Davidson

There is a concerted effort underway lately by so-called dissident or “anti-woke” liberals to police speech on the right, declaring certain opinions or ideas taboo, unworthy of a platform, beyond the pale of acceptable discourse. Although couched in the language of morality and principles, this effort isn’t really about fending off rising right-wing racism and antisemitism, much less saving western civilization. It’s about power. Over the past decade, the media landscape has been destroyed.

2 weeks ago | thefederalist.com | John Daniel Davidson

If you want to know what mass immigration without assimilation produces in a country, look no further than Scotland. Immigrants from Pakistan now constitute an ethno-religious voting bloc in that country with their very own politicians advocating for nakedly sectarian interests.

2 weeks ago | thefederalist.com | John Daniel Davidson

On one side are the aging liberal revolutionaries. On the other side are faithful cardinals determined to protect the Catholic faith.