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  • Naturally, The Government is Red, White, And Blue

    The 2016 election is over, and Donald Trump has emerged victorious. It was a crazy ride, with most of the pundits pro­jecting a modest Clinton victory. Now that that is behind us, we can safely say that the feder­al government is going to be Republican for at least the next two years—possibly four, con­sidering that…

  • 1824 and 2016

    Citizens are so preoccupied with the spec­tacle of the current election cycle that they forget a precedent exists for their current times; those who wonder what Clinton and Trump presidencies would be like need look no further than John Quincy Adams and “Old Hickory” himself, Andrew Jackson. It’s 1824, and the United States is gearing…