Conservatism
June 11, 2026 — Bill Glahn
As predicted, with the vote count continuing in the Peruvian presidential election, right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has retaken the lead from her left-wing opponent, Roberto Sanchez. With more than 98 percent of the total vote counted, Fujimori leads by fewer than 600 votes, out of more than 18 million cast. Polymarket favors a Fujimori win over 96 percent.
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June 8, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The final round of the Peruvian presidential election took place yesterday. Early signs were looking good for the conservative candidate, Keiko Fujimori. She appeared to lead in exit polls and in the election-night vote tabulations. Following an all-too-familiar pattern, as the votes continued to be counted the day after, her lead continued to shrink until she eventually fell behind her leftist opponent, Roberto Sanchez. With about 95 percent counted, she
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May 26, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The sorting of America into red and blue zones is one of the most important developments of our time, about which we have often written. People are leaving blue states for red states, in part in search of lower taxes. But that is actually half, or less, of the story. Richard Vedder and Nicholas Jadwisienczak of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity have analyzed growth in personal income from 2000 to
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May 22, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Young conservatives often refer to themselves as “based.” What does it mean? A based conservative is a young, populist, America First, non-establishment conservative. That isn’t a description that applies to many lawyers and judges, especially these days. Is there such a thing as a based approach to the law? There is, and it probably sounds to you like common sense. Law professor Ilan Wurman explains: Right. At the margins, under
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May 17, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Is the special relationship between the U.S. and Britain on the rocks? I think it depends on which Britons you ask. At yesterday’s Unite the Kingdom rally, they showed pictures of world leaders on the screen. One after another was booed by the crowd, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer getting the loudest boos. Until they came to… Tommy Robinson led the crowd in a chant: At the Unite The Kingdom
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May 16, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Last September, British conservatives held a massive march through London. Estimates varied, but the crowd was at least 100,000 to 150,000 strong. We wrote about the march here. There was another Unite the Kingdom demonstration today. These events were organized in part by Tommy Robinson, and, although entirely peaceful, they are viewed as anathema by the British establishment. Thus, Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced this year’s rally as “peddling hatred
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May 11, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Right-wing politics is succeeding around the globe. The Sydney Morning Herald reports on a special election (by-election) for a seat in the national House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament, ‘Flame-haired Farage’: The One Nation shockwave felt across the world. I find it difficult to follow or to report on Australian politics because of the confusing party labels. One Nation is the U.K. Reform-style party of the right. Simple enough.
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May 10, 2026 — John Hinderaker
It is no secret that red states are trouncing blue states by every metric, including the most important one: where people want to live. Everyone knows about Florida and Texas, but other red states are thriving, too, and they are doing it by applying conservative principles. Mississippi is a good example. Long downtrodden and the poorest state in the U.S. since the Civil War, Mississippi is coming back strong. It
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May 9, 2026 — Bill Glahn
This has to rank as the biggest upheaval in British politics in more than a century, since 1924, when Ramsay MacDonald led the first-ever Labour government in the United Kingdom. Fast forward to 2026 and the off-year municipal and regional elections held on Thursday. Left-wing Labour was obviously the biggest loser. In city council elections held across England, the current majority party in the national Parliament finished a distant second
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May 8, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Most of the votes still remain to be counted in yesterday’s local and regional elections in the United Kingdom. But the upstart, right-leaning U.K. Reform party is already the clear winner. In city council elections across England, Reform has won more seats than any other party. At times during the count, the ruling Labour party (in red) has fallen to fourth place, behind Reform, Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives. The
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April 19, 2026 — John Hinderaker
It is a well-documented fact that conservatives are, on average, happier than liberals, and less prone to mental illness. This is true not only in the United States, but in many other countries as well. And conservatives’ superior well-being has been documented for as long as the question has been studied, going back to the early 1970s. Conservatives are more likely than liberals to be religious, patriotic and married, all
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April 16, 2026 — Bill Glahn
I was told that the election in Hungary that saw the ouster of Victor Orban after 16 years in power swung the country to the left. From Newsweek, Hungary’s New PM Takes Aim at EU with Tough Border Policy. Newsweek reports, Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar has vowed to strengthen his country’s borders, suggesting his defeat of EU‑sceptic Viktor Orbán will not lead to a policy shift toward Brussels on
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April 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Why? Because they don’t…I will forgo the vulgar pun. What they really don’t do is have children. When I was growing up, four children was an average number. Catholic families often had eight or ten. But those days are gone. Now, there are fewer children across the board, but we can all observe that it is liberals, in particular, who have few if any. The data bear out those observations.
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April 13, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Viktor Orbán was defeated in his bid for a sixth term as Prime Minister of Hungary, to the delight of liberals everywhere. As a populist and “right wing extremist,” Orban was detested by the Left. He did Hungary a great deal of good, if only by resisting the suicidal immigration policies that so many European countries have followed. But what is the significance of his defeat? Not much, in this
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April 9, 2026 — John Hinderaker
One could say that President Trump has burned his bridges with the formerly conservative podcasters who have turned on him, but for the fact that they burned them first. In any event, earlier today Trump unloaded on Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones. Mostly he just insulted them as stupid, pawns of the fake news press, and so on. But after today, there will be no going
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April 3, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Writing about President Trump’s denunciation of Tucker Carlson via Douglas Murray’s New York Post column “Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump,” John asserts that it’s a time for choosing on the right. That is the point I have been making for some time now with respect to the maniacal anti-Semitism of Carlson and his friends, including the Vice President of the United States. President Trump posts an article by Douglas Murray
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April 2, 2026 — John Hinderaker
As Tucker Carlson has turned on President Trump, Trump has distanced himself from Carlson. Among other things, he has described Tucker as “kooky.” Fair enough, but mild. Now Trump has taken the gloves off: President Trump posts an article by Douglas Murray that highlights Tucker Carlson's extremism, embrace of Islamists, and America Last: The article is titled: "Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump" Several of the top lines in the piece
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