Archive - Michael Johns

The Roar of the Forgotten Man and Woman: Why Trump Prevailed--and Deserved To

By Michael Johns On February 14, 2017, I spoke to the Cornell Political Union at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on the promise of Donald…

Feb 17, 2017 •

February 2016

The Legacy of Antonin Scalia

By Michael Johns When I first became engaged in national public policy and politics in the mid-1980s, the conservative movement had a saying, which I…

Feb 15, 2016 •

January 2016

This November, Remember the Benghazi Four

By Michael Johns As far as cemeteries go, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in the Point Loma area of San Diego is likely among the most beautiful and…

Jan 26, 2016 •

Why Our Tea Party Movement Honors MLK

By Michael Johns In the early 1980s, as my interest in politics and my now three-decade alignment with American conservatism first began, I distinctly…

Jan 19, 2016 •

13 Hours of Heroism

By Michael Johns “By the rude bridge that arched the floor, their flag to April’s breeze unfurled. Here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the…

Jan 10, 2016 •

February 2015

The Tea Party: Then and Now

By Michael Johns The largest and most impactful grassroots political movement, at least since the civil rights movement and perhaps in all of American…

Feb 3, 2015 •

August 2014

Listen to the American People: Secure the Border

By Michael Johns “He was tortured, beaten to death, strangled and then set on fire,” Laura Wilkerson said earlier this month in McAllen, Texas. She was…

Aug 18, 2014 •

January 2012

Iowa's Real Message? A Still Conflicted Tea Party Movement

By Michael Johns At least for the next few days, the results of today's Iowa caucuses will dominate the political coverage of the tea party movement and…

Jan 3, 2012 •

December 2011

Leadership Bid Reflects Growing Tea Party Influence in World's Greatest Deliberative Body

By Michael Johns The tea party movement began in an unassuming way: A series of March 2009 conference calls of a couple dozen conservative and…

Dec 14, 2011 •

In Staten Island, the Promise of Newt Gingrich's Tea Party Support

By Michael Johns No Republican Presidential candidate has yet solidified the support of the nation's tea party movement. But Newt Gingrich's hugely…

Dec 6, 2011 •

November 2011

Silencing the Problem Solvers

By Michael Johns We should know at least this by now: One of the first signs of failed and lost political leadership is often the creation of a…

Nov 22, 2011 •

More Than One Deficit Reduction Committee Report

By Michael Johns Conventional wisdom holds that the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, often referred to simply as the Supercommittee, is the…

Nov 16, 2011 •

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