Politics

My latest column at The Week is all about how Ted Cruz is going to be Veep.

If Trump’s the nominee:

Trump is clearly going to get the nomination, who might carry on the fight to Cleveland for some purpose beyond spite?

The Uruguayan President Jose “Pepe” Mujica, known as the world’s poorest President, has urged members of the public worldwide to kick out rich people from politics.  Mujica, often described as the “world’s most humble president”, retired from office in 2015 with an approval rating of 70 percent. In an interview with CNN en Español this week the former Uruguay leader criticised world leaders for not truly representing the people. “We invented this thing called representative democracy, where we say the majority is who decides,” Mujica told CNN.

“Do not come to Europe. “Do not believe the smugglers. Do not risk your lives and your money. It is all for nothing.”

That’s from Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, and as you can see, one Eurocrat after the other is now set to go full Viktor Orban in an effort to prove, once and for all that Berlin’s grand effort to construct Angela Merkel’s Multicultural utopia has failed. Miserably.

Queen Elizabeth’s former personal doctor, Sir Richard Thompson, has publicly slammed Big Pharma for what he calls their “criminal acts” in telling the public that their drugs are safe and effective whilst having zero evidence to support their dubious claims. Thompson was Queen Elizabeth II’s doctor for over 20 years, as well as the former-President of the Royal College of Physicians.

The decline of American leadership abroad took stage at CPAC this Thursday.

A breakout session titled “The State of Our Alliances” featured scathing reviews of the Obama administration’s treatment of the U.K., Israel, and Japan. But ultimately, this panel ignored any and all American interests in these alliances and offered the audience a lopsided argument. Worse, this is not a one-time offense.