[Last Thursday (7/23), in the garden of the Presidential Palace in Kiev, Ukraine, US social influencer Laura Loomer interviewed Volodymyr Zelensky.  In so doing together with experiencing Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, she broke from the increasingly demented Woke Right world of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Marjorie Taylor Greene to join us Rational Conservatives at TTP in supporting freedom and victory for Ukraine over Russia. Loomer’s Zelensky  interview on X now has 1.6 million views. It’s 43 minutes long so watch it at your leisure.  Here, instead of a Monday Archive, we invite you to read this outstanding analysis from the London Telegraph of what has just happened, in Ukraine and MAGA America.  This is epic history unfolding before our eyes. – JW]

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It takes courage to admit when you are wrong. For Laura Loomer, a MAGA influencer, it took a night in a Ukrainian bomb shelter and a trip to a firebombed McDonald’s.

Ms.. Loomer’s extraordinary about-turn this week – from a provocateur who frequently said she did not care about the Russian invasion to a Ukrainian sympathizer cozying up to Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine – is the clearest sign yet that MAGA America has changed its mind on the war.

“Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine. Sirens blaring. This is every day for every Ukrainian,” she wrote in an X post to her almost two million followers. “I often said I don’t care. Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of Mr. to say. We need to have moral clarity.”

Ms. Loomer is one of a growing number of MAGA influencers who believe that Russia has been insincere in the quest for peace. Ukraine, on the other hand, has emerged as a military underdog, surviving a four-year onslaught to become the leader in the techniques of modern warfare.

The last Democratic candidate to appeal to the white working-class voter was Bill Clinton. He needed every one of those voters in his 1992 and 1996 races. Yet he still failed to win 50 percent of the popular vote because of Ross Perot’s third-party candidacy.

Hunting for the Left-Wing Blue-Collar American

Since then, the Democratic brand has lost the white working-class vote in nearly every presidential election. Yet this demographic still makes up 40 percent of the electorate and registers and votes at much higher rates than non-white groups.

Apparently, during the Biden-era influx of 10 million illegal aliens, Democrats really believed their own slogans about an “Emerging Democratic Majority” and how “Demography is destiny.” They therefore confidently abandoned most efforts to recruit white working-class voters.

In 2017, the then-neocon—and now leftist Mamdani supporter—Bill Kristol (who has advocated abolishing ICE altogether) spoke of the need to open the borders to replace the “lazy” American worker: “Look, to be totally honest, if things are so bad as you say with the white working class, don’t you want to get new Americans in?”

Kristol then characterized this apparently dispensable group as “decadent, lazy, spoiled.”

And yet, until the novelty of Barack Obama’s candidacy and the demographic overconfidence it inspired, Democrats regularly lamented that, aside from the moderate Bill Clinton interlude, their steady leftward turn was becoming both irreversible and electorally costly.

[TTP:  Long, but sometimes the truth takes a while.]

If you want to understand why the Middle East is trapped in an endless cycle of violence—and, on a much more urgent note, why I am still single—you only need to look at dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, or Hinge.

We are told dating apps are digital cupids designed to cure our loneliness, just like we’re told certain political institutions are here to bring peace.

It’s a beautiful lie.

In reality, dating apps are meticulously engineered casino games designed to monetize our single nights.

A dating app that actually finds you a lifelong partner is one that loses paying subscribers.

From a corporate revenue perspective, a happy, committed marriage is a catastrophic system failure, so the engineers didn’t build an engine for love; they built a breeding ground for chronic hope. . .

The Middle East conflict runs on that same logic. You invest. You draft the agreements. You fly delegations to Oslo, Camp David, Annapolis, and Sharm el-Sheikh. You offer concession after concession — land, sovereignty, shared holy sites, billions in aid — and for one shining moment, it looks like this might actually be the time to hold hands and ride into the Mediterranean Sea. And then, like clockwork, it collapses. The rockets start again, the funerals start again. The whole exhausted machinery resets to zero so everyone can do it all over again in another decade, with another summit, another handshake photo, another round of the exact same promises.

A Russian warship has opened fire off the coast of Devon while being shadowed by a Royal Navy patrol ship.

Neustrashimy, a Kremlin frigate, was around 40 nautical miles south-east of Plymouth when it carried out a gunnery exercise shortly after 9am on Monday.

The vessel’s actions, which have been called “highly unusual” by defence sources, are being seen as a way for Russia to challenge Andy Burnham, who entered Downing Street on Monday.

At the time of the drill, which took place in international waters, the Russian warship was being closely shadowed by HMS Tyne at a distance of two miles, The Telegraph understands.

Russian commanders warned the Navy vessel to move back before the gunnery exercise, with Tyne pulling back to a distance of around five nautical miles.