Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics

Rightwing populism in particular relies on an ever-expanding list of enemies from urban elites to benefit claimants, immigrants to deep-state bureaucrats, diversity officers to leftwing radicals, net zero zealots to mild liberals yet this list always contains a striking omission.

This past weekend, the MAGA bootlicker and his wife recognized Valentine's Day with what they called a "rare date night." Naturally, Johnson posted their picture on X, representing a brief reprieve from his usual offering of bigoted screeds, bloodthirsty rants and shameful Tr*mp devotion. The next day, the happy couple shared another personal announcement: they're expecting their fifth child. "5 kids in 5 years," celebrated Johnson. "Make more Christians. Make more Americans. Praise God. This is how we win. Thank you for your prayers."

Just after 8:00 pm on Sunday night, Evie Magazine's first live event was finally getting started. The women's magazine, which was founded in 2019 and once described itself as a " conservative Cosmo," welcomed eager fans to celebrate the publication, generally, and its new issue, specifically, during New York Fashion Week at the Standard Hotel's Boom in Chelsea. Guests lined up outside, hugging fur coats around formal dresses, as hosts scanned a list for their names.

Last week, far-right streamer Nick Fuentes openly called for the mass criminalization of women and girls. During an episode of his America First livestream on Rumble, Fuentes declared, "Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists - all of his political rivals - we have to do the same thing with women ... They go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags."

A quick look at the website of Tucker Carlson - one of right-wing America's most influential personalities - shows his current preoccupations: criticising protesters in Minneapolis, selling baseball caps with insulting slogans and encouraging his fans and followers to buy gold.

Yes, if your main intersection with pro wrestling was the late-'90s boom on U.S. cable TV, then you definitely saw a product rife with misogyny and homophobia. But it's a much more inclusive hobby than it used to be, and I tell people who I want to convince to go to an independent show with me that they should expect something like a comic-con atmosphere, not a frat house.

U.S. inflation came in lower than anticipated in January, with an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of 0.2 percent for a 2.4 percent increase from January of last year. The latest report from the Bureau of Labor Services (BLS), released Wednesday, shows that housing costs were the biggest driver of inflation last month, with an increase of 0.2 percent. Energy costs fell significantly, down 1.5 percent for the month.

The day before Epstein discussed meeting him - possibly the day they had met - Poole created a new discussion board on the website called /pol/, short for "politically incorrect." According to 4chan researcher Sal Hagen, Poole had previously shut down the board /new/ after bemoaning that it had been overrun by white supremacists. His creation of /pol/ may have been intended to contain 4chan's most bigoted population, but instead, /pol/ came to define the platform.

"Closer to the nation's capital, however, people have been muttering "abolish ice." The denizens of the Acela Corridor aren't without their own misgivings about assertive immigration enforcement. But even the most hardened member of the Resistance-frozen solid-has to wonder why it takes two weeks after a moderate snowstorm for a Democratic-controlled city to plow a street or clear a sidewalk."

In the aftermath of Alex Pretti's killing in Minneapolis, my Instagram algorithm served up a never-ending carousel of sizzling rage. Most of that rage was directed toward the country's immigration-enforcement agencies, while some, of course, was aimed at defending them. But I wasn't expecting the post from Blake Guichet. "There's a difference between compassion that is grounded and compassion that is hijacked," Guichet, a pro-Trump Christian influencer who posts on Instagram under the handle "thegirlnamedblake," had typed on butter-yellow slides.

Like most Americans, I've enjoyed watching the Super Bowl. But the halftime shows began pushing moral boundaries and have become more and more sexualized. This year, they're having Bad Bunny perform. The @NFL leadership is pushing this sexualized agenda. Thank you, @TPUSA and Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) February 5, 2026

I don't think we landed on the moon, she said. Miller noted during the conversation that she'd asked SpaceX head Elon Musk where we went to the moon in 1969 and he said yes. I asked Elon this one. He said he said we did indeed land on the moon, she said. Minaj shrugged off the comment and doubled down on her belief about the moon landing.

Ben Shapiro is a conservative provocateur. Ever since he was a teen-ager at U.C.L.A. writing op-eds for the Daily Bruin, he has shown a penchant for the rhetorical grenade. Women who have abortions are "baby killers." Western civilization is "superior" to other civilizations. "Israelis like to build," he tweeted in 2010. "Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock." Shapiro is now forty-two, and his rhetoric has mellowed only somewhat.

It is the same impulse that produced the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project-the so-called autopsy-after Mitt Romney's 2012 loss. Rather than conduct an honest assessment aligned with the populist direction the party would soon take, establishment Republicans used Romney's defeat to sell the base two catastrophic falsehoods: first, that the immigration status quo was somehow good for America; and second, that even if it wasn't, removing millions of illegal aliens was either impossible or politically suicidal.

Though the 83-year-old (who will turn 84 in two weeks) is rarely spotted in the Capitol these days, his vocal opposition to President Donald Trump on a myriad of issues is louder and more present than ever when deemed useful for the motivated liberal press. For instance, McConnell was quoted far and wide last month after he criticized Trump's desire to acquire Greenland, a move the Kentuckian suggested would "incinerate" the threadbare alliance that remains between the United States and NATO.