Political purists win arguments while the country loses ground. This piece makes the case for judging candidates by one standard: do they actually move the Overton window toward liberty in the real world, or just polish their reputation with perfect “no” votes?
A defense industry veteran told me the Strait of Hormuz was a guaranteed nuclear flashpoint. His wargames said so. Two decades of classified modeling backed it up. He's probably right about 2005. What he hasn't updated is the board. And the board has moved.
Chamath Palihapitiya proposes a $300–500B tax equity fund leveraging OBBBA incentives to put solar-plus-storage on 50–100M U.S. homes, slashing power bills while adding 400–800 GW of distributed capacity and shifting grid room to AI and industry.
Wilson promised peace, Truman promised order—we got an $18B collective hostility. Lodge warned in 1919 that surrendering sovereignty would fetter American power. He was right. Time to defund this farce.
Maduro arrest: the right call—legally, strategically, morally. The foreign policy establishment is melting down because Trump proved everything they believed about American power was wrong. The Monroe Doctrine isn't dead. America has spine again without endless wars.