Long Memory — The Hardest Right

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Braddock Lost 90 Percent of Its People. The Republic Owes It a Reckoning.

Braddock, Pennsylvania — a steel town that once fed this nation's industrial spine — has shed nine in ten of its residents over the decades, according to a recent account from the town's former mayor. What deindustrialization and neglect built there is a monument to what happens when Washington serves the boardroom and forgets the mill.

The Founders understood that a republic rests on the dignity of its working people, not on the comfort of distant creditors. Lincoln called labor the superior of capital. When whole communities hollow out and stay hollow, the question is not whether the market spoke — it is who rigged the auction.

The long memory of the American experiment does not forget Braddock. Duty demands we ask which policies, which trade deals, which captured regulatory agencies wrote that town's obituary — and whether we have the honor to write something different.

Source: realclearpolitics.com LongMemory Labor Economy

Eisenhower Named This Danger. Congress Just Funded It.

The White House has submitted a $1.5 trillion military spending request to Congress — not to defend American soil, but to sustain a pattern of offensive military action the administration has carried out against Venezuela, Iran, and others, none of which posed an imminent threat to the United States.

Said President Trump: "We're fighting wars" — offered as the reason ordinary Americans cannot have childcare, Medicaid, or Medicare.

The Founders gave Congress the power to declare war and hold the purse for a reason. The defense appropriations bill is the last remaining check Congress holds over an executive that has already brushed off war powers resolutions. What Congress votes on next is not a budget line. It is a question of honor.