Legendary actor James Woods tore into left-wing Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey after the mayor said he would not cooperate with federal immigration officials on Tuesday.

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Many conservatives, myself included, have recognized the wisdom of a populist turn in our politics. A roused populace was necessary to address the growing illiberalism and sheer unaccountability of woke elites who, for at least a generation, have committed themselves to redefining the theory and practice of liberal democracy. But populism also has marked limits, especially when applied to the realm where principle and prudence, in the high and noble Aristotelian or Burkean sense, must inform action.

Populist anger must be calibrated and channelled so that it does not become self-destructive. The welcome resistance to the progressivist “culture of repudiation,” as the late Roger Scruton so suggestively called it, must not give way to a rival spirit of repudiation on the Right that dismisses our intellectual and political forebears as fools and frauds. “What has conservatism ever conserved?” is both historically illiterate and politically ungrateful.

When the young and activist militants on the disaffected Right reduce Winston Churchill to the status of a dangerous forerunner of neoconservative foreign policy, or see in Ronald Reagan nothing but a sterile libertarianism—ignoring his courage and determination to defeat the scourge of communist totalitarianism, and his eloquent appeals to faith, community, and patriotic devotion to country—or facilely dismiss the pugnacious and brilliant William F. Buckley, Jr. as a RINO and puppet of the liberal establishment, something has gone seriously wrong. These ill-conceived judgments need to be corrected for the sake of truth and for preserving our shared moral and civic inheritance, which is what the Constitution calls our “blessings of liberty.”

Serious conservatives should not only fight woke despotism but also the new pseudo-rightist culture of repudiation at the same time. Indeed, it would be a mistake to imitate the ’60s Left, with its almost pathological fear of upsetting “the kids,” as they were then called. Happily, some young conservatives are rediscovering faith and the deeper wellsprings of Western civilization. They should be encouraged and tutored. This is an eternal imperative, now urgent in our time due to disturbing trends that are more and more apparent in younger generations.

As Eddie LaRow pointed out in a recent insightful reflection at The American Mind, Gen Z has faced a series of troubling events, one after another, ranging from growing up under the thumb of censorious progressive teachers and school administrators to the government’s heavy-handed response to COVID. This has caused young men to increasingly take their bearings from unsavory podcasts and streamers. Legitimate suspicion of politically correct orthodoxies has, in some quarters, given way to a nihilistic suspicion of all inherited truths and judgments. In certain corners of the disaffected Right, “international Jewry” is seen at work everywhere, while the palpable threat of militant Islam, which is visible in the massive persecution of Christians around the world—especially in Nigeria—is all but ignored.

These young souls have been deeply wounded by tyrannical wokeness without ever being exposed, or adequately exposed, to the deeper wisdom on offer from Western civilization or the American civic tradition in republican self-government. Ironically, the disaffected Right is following in the very footsteps of the progressives themselves as they utterly reject their intellectual and political patrimony.

In the face of this creeping nihilism, we must offer them something better. We need to renew the serious thought that grounds and defends the precious goods of faith, family, and nation. Without it, many of the spiritually adrift young will continue to succumb to the false allure of neopaganism and the new pseudo-rightist culture of repudiation. This means that we conservatives must not tiptoe around this spiritual and intellectual crisis that risks morphing into a civic crisis. To ignore it would only exacerbate the situation. It would be a disaster not only for the conservative movement, but, far more importantly, also for the country as a whole.

Conservatives must effectively communicate a spirited regard for liberty, civilization, and human dignity, together with an underlying commitment to moderation rightly understood. The task is daunting, but our times require it, and our resources can fund it.

Perhaps above all, we must avoid the obverse error of what we oppose. Ours is and must be an anti-ideological politics. This means we must appeal to common sense, and to the common sense of the people. However, common sense must have living roots in what Cicero called “right reason” (recta ratio). This displays itself in the two-fold domain of the intellection of the true, the good, and the beautiful, and in the cultivation of practical reason and tough-minded moderation in the political realm. Populism will flounder if the common sense of the people is not renewed at these wells.

Our task, however, is not just intellectual. Liberal democracy, as any number of thinkers and statesmen like James Madison have taught, requires a certain degree of virtue in the populace. Here too we must take seriously the notion of a “virtuous people” (the phrase is Willmoore Kendall’s) dedicated to self-government in the personal and collective senses. It is not just the youth that need conservatism’s permanent truths.

Conservatism rightly understood will always stand in some tension with populism. And that will be magnified especially if the latter loses its connections with what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn called in his 1978 Harvard Address “the great reserves of mercy and sacrifice,” the legacy of the Christian centuries that was alive and well in “early democracies, as in American democracy at the time of its birth.”

This is why I think Christopher Long and Thomas Lynch, who recently resigned from the board of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, are wrong for linking a “post-liberal hijacking” of the Right with the recent developments on the disaffected Right that I have highlighted. As Daniel McCarthy has argued at The American Mind, the post-liberals are our allies in the crucial task of tying self-government to a richer and deeper understanding of the human person at the heart of Western civilization.

True, there will be tensions and disputes. But in the battle on the two fronts I have limned here, they can be allies, though we must resist the temptation of some post-liberals to find in the American Founding a “poison pill” inevitably unleashing atomistic individualism and moral relativism. What is needed to make this alliance truly effective is a common commitment to what Tocqueville called “liberty under God and the law,” and a shared recognition that debased liberalism, with its inordinate emphasis on human “autonomy,” has rejected what is best in the liberal tradition itself. 

We should follow the example of America’s own thoughtful, sober, and reflective statesmen, who did not completely reject their inheritance after declaring, and then winning, independence from the British. They self-consciously drew on the modern idiom of natural rights without repudiating the reality of a natural moral sense or moral law. They loved liberty but did not endorse radical individualism or a conception of happiness that was inherently hedonistic or relativistic. They cared deeply about honor and self-respect and never succumbed to “Year Zero” thinking, as if they could create the world again from scratch.

For the American Founders, the centrality of consent in the political order did not demand that all human relations be rethought in a radically voluntaristic way. Nor did they conceive of a human and political world where only the state and the individual have ontological reality, so to speak.

As I will argue in a follow-up piece, one can appreciate the serious limits of philosophical liberalism, or important currents of it, without rejecting liberalism tout court. The future we build together must be both liberal and post-liberal. Our task must be to preserve the work of our Western and American forebears by building on their achievements while reconnecting freedom to the larger ends and purposes that inform it and give it life.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, a firebrand House progressive, appears to be eyeing a Senate run in the Lone Star state and may announce her candidacy as soon as Monday.

Crockett has scheduled a “special announcement” in Dallas on Monday at 4:30 PM—the day of the filing deadline to run for the United States Senate. In a recent interview with MS NOW, Crockett said, “the data says that I can win” and “I am closer to ‘yes’ than I am ‘no’” when it comes to running for Senate.

Crockett’s remarks to MS NOW was in response to a question about a September poll from the University of Houston and Texas Southern University that had the progressive firebrand leading a list of potential Democrat primary candidates with 31% support.

In the Democrat primary, state Rep. James Talarico and former United States Rep. Collin Allred have already entered the race.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, an incumbent of over two decades, is up for reelection in 2026 and is facing primary challenges from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas.

Crockett, 44, is originally from Missouri, and later moved to Texas, where she practiced law. She has served in the House of Representatives since 2021, building a reputation as a firebrand after a viral verbal spat with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

The Texas Congresswoman has also made a name for her controversial statements.

In 2024, for example, she delivered an impassioned response to Republicans’ opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring practices in a House oversight committee hearing, telling them, “There has been no oppression for the White man in this country. You tell me which White men were dragged out of their homes.”

Crockett added, “Don’t let it escape you that it is white men on this side of the aisle telling us, people of color on this side of the aisle that y’all are the ones being oppressed, that y’all are the ones that are being harmed. That’s not the definition of oppression.”

In 2025, she referred to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, who is wheelchair-bound, as “Governor Hot Wheels.”

The Daily Signal reached out to Crockett’s office but did not receive a comment.

The 2026 Texas Senate primaries for both parties will take place on March 3, 2026—in roughly three months. If no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in either of the primaries, a runoff election will be triggered on May 26, in which the top two candidates in a primary would face off.

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'Protect the deep state'

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is pardoning Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife, Imelda, who were indicted last year on federal bribery and money laundering […]

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Right now, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is only targeting billionaires, but the precedent of a retroactive tax, even on those who left the state, should make every California resident (or former resident) uneasy.

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'Deported once already, and returned again'

The chaotic critter slept off his booze binge after the break-in.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told Newsmax that he appreciates the work of President Donald Trump in stopping the flow of illegal drugs into America.

On Wednesday on MS NOW's "Morning Joe," Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) argued the "uniformed military may help save us from" President Donald Trump.

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Ole Miss players have been dismissing claims they wanted Lane Kiffin as coach heading into the College Football Playoff season.

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Like most Southerners, I love SEC football.

The Sharia expansion Texas crisis is worse than officials admit, and Peter McIlvenna says women trapped inside these courts are the first to pay the price.

WATCH THE CLIP BELOW:

This clip aired on WarRoom’s morning show on December 3, 2025. Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).

 

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Peter McIlvenna joins us now. Peter, wrote a piece the other day. You came and spent just a couple of days in Texas and you were shocked. And you have been one of the best, now that Niger is in the government, Raheem is over here covering more American news. I think you are probably, you and Tommy Robinson are the two best about showing what is going on and really the collapse of our mother country, Great Britain, and it is shocking and it gets worse every day and it is accelerating at an accelerating rate. You came here for just a couple of days in Texas and you told me, he said, hey look, you guys got to understand, you are heading down the same path and maybe heading down the same path more rapidly than you guys were at the beginning. Walk us through that in this piece you wrote the other day.

PETER MCILVENNA (GUEST): Well, yeah, Raheem has done great job. He has left Londonistan. I am still here. And this was showing some of the courts that are operating, some of the Sharia courts that are operating in the US, to give you an example. And in the UK, we have got 85 Sharia courts. They have been operating since 1982. There was a government report back, I think, 2018. And it said that these bodies operate as a parallel legal system and they subject tens of thousands of British women to medieval rules. That was the understanding of the British government in 2018.

So over in the US in Texas, I looked at three different Sharia courts that are operating. The Islamic Tribunal of Dallas, which is up there northeast Dallas, up near Piano, where the huge epic city development is being pushed forward. And it is, it now, I think it started 2014 as a voluntary mediation service. And these all start as voluntary. But Steve, it is not voluntary for the women. The women have no choice. And in the UK, some of the courts, 90 percent of the cases are by women who are desperate and want to help in their marriages and are trapped. And all they need is the man to say, I divorce you three times, according to Islamic law. And she is divorced. She is thrown out. And she is nothing because the man takes all. He is the winner.

So you have got the Islamic Tribunal of Dallas that is now having 300 cases a year. Starting 2014, that is ramped up. And I looked at some of the other ones. One of the big ones in the US is the North American Islamic Trust. And back in 2003, I think it was in a Senate hearing, and it talked about them then having title to 3000 to 325 US mosques. Now, at the time, that was 11 percent. At the time, there were about 1300 mosques, so 10 percent. You now have 2700 mosques, according to 2020 figures. That is well above 3000 now. So who knows how many mosques the North American Islamic Trust now operates. It could be far more. At that time, it was 27 percent. It could, if it is the same amount, then they rule. They run 650 mosques in the US.

And again, there are Sharia courts attached to a number of those mosques. And this is about divorces. This is about estate issues. Local issues. And again, these are run by all male, as you can imagine, four men. A lot of these are trained in the Middle East. So they come over, they then run these courts, and subjugate, subject these women to medieval rules.

And I was, when I look back at the state of Texas, I kind of thought as a foreigner, you know, Texas has always been a red state. And then you look. It was only basically, you only had three Republican governors, I think, since the founding of Texas state up until George W. Bush. And then you have had 30 years from George W. Bush, Rick Perry and Greg Abbott. This ramping up of mosques, this ramping up of Sharia courts, this ramping up of halal food in Dallas running, in Houston running at 23 percent a year. The biggest growth in halal food in America in Houston. This has happened under Republican governors.

Now, it is not my place to criticize. I will let the WarRoom Posse have their say on that. But there is a concern that this is happening under the noses and at least Greg Abbott has woken up to this.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Peter McIlvenna, I have been told forever in London and in Texas that the Sharia courts have no standing, no bearing. They cannot do anything. What do you mean they are telling women what to do and they are making these courts? They tell us over and over again, not the Muslims. They say, no, Sharia law works. I am talking about American officials who sit there constantly and say, you are wrong. You are an alarmist. In England, you are an alarmist. They have no standing, no jurisdiction. What say you, sir?

PETER MCILVENNA (GUEST): Well, I have made this point regularly, Steve. They are simply there to look after the children. Now, in the US. In the UK, it was the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal Act. Say that quickly. And that was passed in 1982, I believe. And then, since then, we have allowed Muslim courts, of which there are 85. In America it is slightly different. My understanding is that you have got the Federal Arbitration Act of 1924 or 1925. And that allows Christian, Jewish, and Muslim courts.

Now, I would argue, why do you need religious courts in a country? Because then you have got competing different laws. That is where the opening happened to allow this. So for 100 years, this has been happening. But you have not had mass immigration. You have not had Muslim entities. Now you do. Now you have this huge growth. And therefore this. Therefore, they do seem to be legally binding.

No, it says they are only legally binding if it does not conflict with federal or state laws. But you tell me, which court or police officer is going to go into an Islamic area and demand access to those rulings and then begin to enforce or unenforce them? That does not happen.

Of course these courts, it is wonderful because it is not in English. There are no records kept. There is no transparency. So the government is not allowed a look in. If it was allowed a look in, it would realize that these are absolutely unfair to how women are treated, especially in divorce cases and custody cases, in financial cases, in business transactions. This is unfair and does conflict with US law. But you will need a very brave individual in law enforcement or courts who is going to enforce the rule of law.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): We are going to have to do that in Texas. One of the reasons I meet with Glenn and the team this afternoon is that you are going to have to. You have designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist outfits. Now you have got to get down to it. You have got to dig them out of here, starting with these Sharia courts. And I am telling you, what is happening in Texas is very scary.

We are going to have a bunch of big announcements about all this in the days and weeks ahead before Christmas, about January and 26, what we are going to do to start off with a bang.

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