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Jim Geraghty

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Jim Geraghty

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NR senior political correspondent, Washington Post contributing columnist. Author. Three Martini Lunch podcast. Intermittent cable news talking head. #TJAMS

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"Mr. Geraghty has taken the time to put together a lived-in, well-crafted world, one where, like ours, nothing is off the table in terms of possibilities. Things do not simply happen for the sake of plot contrivance, nor do they grind along quietly with spasms of fight scenes -
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In short, we have two parties who are pretty darn statist in their economics, pretty darn dovish or isolationist in their foreign policy, and pretty darn libertine in their social policies. Neither one wants to do a darn thing about entitlements, neither one cares about the
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A Gallup poll from 2025 found that 68 percent of Democrats believed doctor-assisted suicide was morally acceptable, 27 percent said the same about polygamy, and 11 percent said marital affairs were morally acceptable. (Nine percent of independents and 4 percent of Republicans
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A 2024 poll found that 83 percent of Democrats believe that their state should allow abortion at any time for any reason. Roughly half (47 percent) of Democrats believe that abortion providers should not contact a minor’s parents before performing one on a girl under age 18.
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Adam Smith, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said last year, “The Biden administration should have directly talked to Russia. I didn’t agree with this, you know, ‘nothing about Ukraine without Ukrainians’ thing. . . . What we need to do — and