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Sure, Ron DeSantis Could Beat Donald Trump in 2024 How inevitable is a third consecutive nomination of Donald Trump? Partisan commentators, when it suits their purposes, tend to assume it is so.

Gun sales up, police budgets down. Shootings of burglary invaders up.

Boom: 5.4M first-time gun buyers, 33% women, blacks up 44% First-time gun buyers continued to flood into fi****ms stores last year, broadening the once male and white market with women, blacks, Asians, and Hispanics.

Griego, a Pueblo Local 12 member known for his high energy, made himself even more visible.

He served on the county’s Planning & Zoning Commission. He also figured he had to knock on even more doors in the lead-up to last year’s Democratic primary.

Colorado Member Wins Election to County Commissioner Seat Pueblo, Colo., Local 12 member Eppie Griego, right with black mask, being sworn into his seat on the Pueblo County Board of Commissioners during a January ceremony.

"The Dictatorship of Woke Capital," Steve Soukup's explores the rise of progressivism as a cultural force and explains why corporations increasingly are taking sides in politics.

The first half of Soukup’s book is a high-intensity sprint through about a century and a half of intellectual history that name-checks everyone from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to Woodrow Wilson, Theodor Adorno, Saul Alinsky, and Milton Friedman. In Soukup’s telling, the shift began when Johns Hopkins University was founded in the image of Germany’s Heidelberg University in the late 19th century, and progressive political theory began to grow in popularity in the United States. The same trends later accelerated when a new generation of continental Marxism hit the US in the mid-20th century.

“Public servants should become active, informed, politically savvy agents of change,” as one of Waldo’s colleagues would later put it.

This is the recipe for what critics of big government have come to call a permanent governing class—civil servants with effective lifetime tenure, collaborating with like-minded activists outside of government, who place their own judgment ahead of that of the voters and their elected representatives.

Yet, the trend of enlightened university graduates turning institutions toward progressive goals wasn’t confined to government agencies. The same logic would eventually apply to the management of corporations as well.

How Corporate America Got Woke How did corporate America, long considered one of the most conservative American institutions, become a stronghold of progressive activism? A new book explores the puzzle.