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2 months ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | David Goldman |Charles Kesler |Karl Rove
In Jules Dassin’s 1960 comedy Never on Sunday Melina Mercouri’s Piraeus demimondaine weeps at the awful denouement of “Medea,” but cheers up when the actors take their curtain call.
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2 months ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Hal Brands |Simon Montlake |Karl Rove |Ivo Daalder
Quotes of the Day:“Constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong… With such a people you can do whatever you want.” – Hannah Arendt.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
wsj.com | Karl Rove
As Inauguration Day approaches, most soon-to-be presidents feel the wind is at their back. That’s certainly true for Donald Trump after one of the most spectacular comebacks in American politics. Mr. Trump outpolled his opponent in the popular vote in 2024, the first Republican to do so in 20 years, and carried the Electoral College 312-226. Foreign leaders now flock to Mar-a-Lago as if he were already back in the White House. Captains of industry and Silicon Valley titans vie for dinner invites.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
norfolkdailynews.com | Karl Rove
My first column of the new year looks back at the old — specifically at my predictions from a year ago on what 2024 would hold. I got a bit over a 70% success rate. What I got right: The war in Ukraine is stalemated. NATO’s European members increased aid to Ukraine and their military budgets. Congress approved security assistance to Ukraine and Israel. The Israel-Hamas war dragged on while the Israel Defense Forces occupied Gaza.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
wsj.com | Karl Rove
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Karl Rove
Playing0:00 / 5:23We know who topped Santa’s naughty list this year—former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.). No doubt about that after the release Monday of the House Ethics Committee report.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Karl Rove
Officials from the Trump and Harris campaigns gathered last week at Harvard’s Institute of Politics for its Campaign Managers Conference. Held every four years since 1972, this deep dive into the presidential race is part a peek backstage, part locker-room taunts and part psychotherapy. I found reasons not to be part of the George W. Bush contingent in both 2000 and 2004 (transition and official duties called). But the IOP’s transcripts of its conferences are crack for political junkies.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
norfolkdailynews.com | Karl Rove
The announcements have been coming at us fast on Truth Social and in emails. There were six of them on one evening alone, issued in rapid-fire order in just 26 minutes. President-elect Donald Trump has been quickly naming his Cabinet and top White House aides. He’s clearly learned from his first effort to pull together a government following his 2016 election. He’s dispensing with as much of the public spectacle surrounding the process as he can.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
realcleardefense.com | Karl Rove
Voters Back Trump’s Foreign Policy of Peace Through Strength Karl Rove The Wall Street Journal December 5, 2024
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Karl Rove
Donald Trump made the phrase “peace through strength” a staple of his campaign. Ronald Reagan used it as a rallying cry in 1980 after the weakness of the Jimmy Carter presidency. It’s an equally fitting response to Joe Biden’s timid, clumsy foreign policy. But some Republican neo-isolationists reject the projection of American power abroad through allies and a global military presence, decrying this as war-mongering. “Come home America” is their cry, as it was the left’s a half-century ago.
