Articles In This Issue

• We Chose the Wrecking Ball: Why Trump Still Has Our Vote - Rebecca Witherspoon

• Madison WI Progressives Are the Uniparty - David Blaska

• Rectification of Names 2: Left and Right - Dr. Peter Theron

We Chose the Wrecking Ball: Why Trump Still Has Our Vote

Rebecca Witherspoon - Musings By Rebecca, May 5, 2025

We don’t need a saint. We need a fighter—someone willing to get in the trenches and take the hits. Trump is willing to call out the rot, challenge the lies, and take the backlash that comes with it. He fights for us, and we stand with him.

His bluntness makes people uncomfortable. He posts without polish. He doesn’t follow the elite-approved script. But that’s exactly why we support him. He speaks the truth that millions of us have been thinking for years. He refuses to bow to political correctness. He calls out corruption and doesn’t dress up evil in polite language. He exposes it—relentlessly—and without asking permission.

Madison WI Progressives Are the Uniparty

Republicans fear entering the political scrum

David Blaska - Blaska Policy Werkes, May 7, 2025

Questions we never expected to see asked in The Capital Times: “Progressives have full control of the city and its schools. Is it for the better?” Figures that it is a freelance journalist, not a CT staffer, posing the question — Marc Eisen, formerly editor of Isthmus.

Mr. Eisen never really answers his own question, perhaps leaving it to the eye of the beholder. … Lends credence to his quote of Jim Zellmer, that Madison WI is governed by the uniparty. City council, mayor, county board, county exec, legislative delegation, school board — all progressive. Same for outlying ‘burbs like Fitchburg, Middleton, and Sun Prairie. Same with our civic institutions like the chamber of commerce and Downtown Madison.

Rectification of Names 2: Left and Right

Dr. Peter Theron - May 12, 2025

‘Left’ and ‘Right’ are often used to describe political positions. Those on the Left call anything they dislike ‘far-right’. (They never call any one ‘right’.) To reclaim ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ as useful political designations, let’s review some history.

In Western culture ‘right’ has long been favored and ‘left’ disfavored. In Latin ‘left’ and ‘right’ are ‘sinister’ and ‘dexter’, giving English ‘sinister’ and ‘dexterous’. In French ‘left’ and ‘right’ are ‘gauche’ and ‘droit’, giving English ‘gauche’ and ‘adroit’. In the parable of the Sheep and the Goats, the blessed sheep are on the Lord’s right hand and the condemned goats are on the Lord’s left hand.

This parable led to today’s left-wingers calling themselves ‘leftists’, rather than taking the rhetorical high ground of calling themselves ‘Right’.