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The Democratic Party is the party of the deep state.

Democrats have long been called the party of big government.

But what we're seeing in today's party is of an entirely different order.

Rather than simply proposing more "big government" programs "to serve the people," the party now exists to serve the government itself.

Take for example the House Intelligence Oversight Committee, please.

Sharp-eyed viewers will catch the foundational message of “Richard Jewell” in the caption on a poster hanging on the wall in a defense attorney’s office: “The government scares me more than terrorists.”

We have seen a complete and total vindication of President Trump's America First trade policy.

The president struck a new deal with Canada and Mexico to replace the disastrous NAFTA deal.

He used tariffs to wring concessions from Red China while most of the tariffs remain in place.

President Trump has the Export-Import Bank giving our exporters the ammunition they need to fight subsidies China and other nations use to win customers abroad.

By Curtis Ellis

We are stuck with the administrative state, but we’ve lost the industries the bureaucrats were supposed to manage.  

Progressivism is bad enough. Add globalism to progressivism and it’s 100 times worse.

Thanks to that toxic cocktail, we are now saddled with a bureaucratic administrative state that can’t even do the job it was advertised to do.

Consider the historical record and our current predicament.

The reformers of the Progressive era championed safety standards for food, drugs, and labor.

The choice could not be clearer.

The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in November. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, the lowest level in half a century.

The number of Americans working rose to 158.6 million, a record high and the sixth consecutive record.

Wages keep increasing. Hourly earnings for private-sector workers are 3.1% higher over the year. Wages are growing at a faster rate for production workers than for managers.

By Curtis Ellis

It’s well past time to ask whether procuring cheap imported consumer goods should be the goal of our foreign trade policy and if it’s the best way to raise Americans’ standard of living.  

Another tranche of tariffs on Chinese imports is set to go into effect on December 15. That has the usual suspects gnashing their teeth.

Today we witnessed a central rite of one of the world's great and growing state-sponsored religions. We saw frenzied acolytes crowd vast temples where they flailed each other to obtain offerings to placate their hungry god.

The religion of which we speak is consumerism. The ritual is known as Black Friday. And the offerings are made in China.

It's an appropriate time to consider the tariffs President Trump has imposed on imports from that authoritarian country.

Like the NBA, universities are letting their immediate economic interests cloud their thinking. Unlike the NBA, they are being paid to train the spies who are stealing our crown jewels. Even worse, the U.S. government is providing the funding.  

Forget about the NBA. If you want to find a bought-and-paid-for willing accomplice to the Chinese Communist Party, just look at our universities.

Take Columbia University, please.

Curtis Ellis touts new legislation that punishes Beijing's human rights abuses

Beijing's brutal crackdown on democracy protesters in Hong Kong sparked a rare outbreak of bipartisanship in Washington.

The U.S. Senate unanimously approved the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. The House adopted it with only one dissenting vote. The president is expected to sign it.

By Curtis Ellis

President Trump has unmasked the groupthink that passes for wisdom in official Washington. The Wise Men and their progeny take that as a personal insult.

Beware of the blob.