Trent Clark

Oct 25, 2024 | idahoclassicalliberals.substack.com | Trent Clark

Thank you, Laurence Fishburne and Keanu Reeves, for “The Matrix” in which you introduce the concept of “taking the Red Pill.”  It now represents the choice to see the world realistically, without blinders created to control us. Before sharing my “Red Pill,” why does it matter? Many know my columns for criticizing the myopic and ultimately self-destructive “inward turn” of the Idaho Republican Party. These readers ask how I can be a Donald Trump fan.

Oct 19, 2024 | idahoclassicalliberals.substack.com | Trent Clark

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Oct 12, 2024 | idahoclassicalliberals.substack.com | Trent Clark

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Oct 5, 2024 | idahoclassicalliberals.substack.com | Trent Clark

If you caught the CBS debate between Vice Presidential candidates, you saw Trump’s running-mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, connect three out of every four questions to one issue: the Biden-Harris Administration’s failure to secure the U.S. border. In one exchange CBS moderator Margaret Brennan attempted to “fact-check” Senator Vance on whether a meaningful connection exists between immigration and rising housing costs.

Sep 28, 2024 | idahoclassicalliberals.substack.com | Trent Clark

We, the people, are about to decide the future of Idaho, and of the United States. The ability to rule ourselves, to choose our own government, is what makes America a [small d]-democracy, from the Greek dēmos ‘the people’ and -kratia ‘power, rule’. Madison, Jefferson, and most of America’s founders, distrusted “pure” democracy. Even in colonial times voters could be deceived by loud voices aimed at swaying masses.