Bruce Bartlett
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Bruce Bartlett
@bartlettb.bsky.social
· Jan 18
Banner picture from left: me, Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer, Bob Bartley, Mrs. Mundell, Bill Middendorf, Bob Mundell, Robert Novak, Jude Wanniski. Dinner hosted by WSJ in 1999 to celebrate Mundell's Nobel Prize.
The rats are deserting the sinking ship. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
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December 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The rats are deserting the sinking ship. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
White males are now a protected class by the Trump regime. The EEOC will sue you if you don't hire or promote one. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...
How White Males Became a Discriminated Class
Yesterday was a two-fer on the long-simmering issue of “reverse discrimination” – racial discrimination primarily against white males.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
White males are now a protected class by the Trump regime. The EEOC will sue you if you don't hire or promote one. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...
Yesterday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, announced that it would begin prosecuting claims of racial discrimination against white males. I look at the evolution of "reverse discrimination" and how Trump has exploited it. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/how-white-...
How White Males Became a Discriminated Class
Yesterday was a two-fer on the long-simmering issue of “reverse discrimination” – racial discrimination primarily against white males.
brucebartlett.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Yesterday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, announced that it would begin prosecuting claims of racial discrimination against white males. I look at the evolution of "reverse discrimination" and how Trump has exploited it. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/how-white-...
Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
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Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
The richest Americans can largely avoid paying income and other taxes. A new book explains the history.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
theconversation.com/billionaires...
theconversation.com/billionaires...
The forgotten Republican roots of Obamacare. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/republican...
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The forgotten Republican roots of Obamacare. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/republican...
The Heritage Foundation is hemorhaging board members. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Two More Heritage Foundation Trustees Resign Over Support for Tucker Carlson
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December 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The Heritage Foundation is hemorhaging board members. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Apparently, an obscure English professor who died in 1961 was the true originator of MAGA's political philosophy. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...
Opinion | The Closing of the MAGA Mind
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December 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Apparently, an obscure English professor who died in 1961 was the true originator of MAGA's political philosophy. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...
Republicans of 100 years ago were similar to those now--totally against nonwhite immigration and obsessed about bathrooms. They virulently opposed having whites and Blacks use the same toilets, just as they block trans people and straight people today. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/the-republ...
The Republican Betrayal of African Americans
It Started as Soon as Reconstruction Ended
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December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Republicans of 100 years ago were similar to those now--totally against nonwhite immigration and obsessed about bathrooms. They virulently opposed having whites and Blacks use the same toilets, just as they block trans people and straight people today. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/the-republ...
Link in first comment.
December 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Link in first comment.
The movement of racist southern Democrats into the Republican Party is the most profound political development of the postwar era. It affects us to this day. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/origins-of...
Origins of the “Southern Strategy”
JFK Had More to Do With It Than Nixon
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December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The movement of racist southern Democrats into the Republican Party is the most profound political development of the postwar era. It affects us to this day. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/origins-of...
Very good wedge issue for Democrats.
December 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Very good wedge issue for Democrats.
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
Being an atheist, I enjoy seeing all the pagan symbols that Christians have misappropriated to honor Jesus this time of year.
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Being an atheist, I enjoy seeing all the pagan symbols that Christians have misappropriated to honor Jesus this time of year.
I've written a revisionist history of the Southern Strategy. Turns out, JFK was its true originator, Nixon had little to do with it, and Newt did more than anyone to implement it. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/origins-of...
Origins of the “Southern Strategy”
JFK Had More to Do With It Than Nixon
brucebartlett.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I've written a revisionist history of the Southern Strategy. Turns out, JFK was its true originator, Nixon had little to do with it, and Newt did more than anyone to implement it. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/origins-of...
George Will. wapo.st/48kOsRu
Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
wapo.st
December 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
George Will. wapo.st/48kOsRu
The other day, House Republicans passed a resolution condemning socialism. It was simply a smear that conflated socialism with communism. Well two can play at that game. I compiled a list of the crimes of capitalism. It's just as bad if not worse. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/which-is-w...
Which Is Worse: The Crimes of “Socialism” or the Crimes of “Capitalism”?
A Brief Comparison
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December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The other day, House Republicans passed a resolution condemning socialism. It was simply a smear that conflated socialism with communism. Well two can play at that game. I compiled a list of the crimes of capitalism. It's just as bad if not worse. brucebartlett.substack.com/p/which-is-w...
This is a war crime. It's no different than Nazi submarines machine-gunning survivors from a ship they just torpedoed.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is a war crime. It's no different than Nazi submarines machine-gunning survivors from a ship they just torpedoed.
The greatest TV scene in history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFt...
WKRP Turkey Drop
YouTube video by Brian Henigin
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November 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The greatest TV scene in history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFt...
Trump's socialism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms
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November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Trump's socialism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...