Politics

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

The lights are burning late in Davos tonight.

At the World Economic Forum, keynoter Joe Biden warned global elites that the unraveling of the middle class in America and Europe has provided “fertile terrain for reactionary politicians, demagogues peddling xenophobia, anti-immigration, nationalist, isolationist views.”

Evidence of a nationalist backlash, said Biden, may be seen in the third parties arising across Europe, and in the U.S. primaries.

As we head into the Iowa caucus, Americans are getting serious about the 2016 race for the White House.

After an extremely painful series of debates that pitted a dizzying array of GOP candidates against one another in a kind of soapbox free-for-all, the Republican field has for all intents and purposes been narrowed to two candidates: Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.

Special Report: Stunned by falling poll numbers, Hillary Clinton is hoping that Democrats will rally to her neocon-oriented foreign policy and break with Bernie Sanders as insufficiently devoted to Israel. But will that hawkish strategy work this time, asks Robert Parry. By Robert Parry  In seeking to put Sen. Bernie Sanders on the defensive over…

Here’s a link to National Review‘s big “Standing Athwart Trump Yelling ‘Stop!'” symposium.  Here are excerpts from the short pieces I found most effective. R.R. Reno writes:

John Limbert does some much needed threat-deflating regarding Iran:

The facts do not support the fearmongers. Their warnings of “Iranian hegemony” and a “new Persian Empire” have no basis in reality.