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The right-wing media machine lines up behind reality TV’s Spencer Pratt for Los Angeles mayor

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Following last week’s mayoral debate in Los Angeles, right-wing media have praised candidate Spencer Pratt, a Republican, as a “star” and a “political colonoscopy for California politics.” Some even compared Pratt to Trump as a reality TV personality-turned-politician. Pratt is running against Democrat incumbent Karen Bass and LA city council member Nithya Raman.

Former reality TV personality Spencer Pratt is campaigning to become Los Angeles’ next mayor

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The Trump administration announced Sunday it will cease to enforce penalties and fines on businesses that fail to adhere to beneficial ownership financial reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act, an anti-money laundering law passed by Congress in 2021. The announcement was panned by advocates, economists, and other critics who called the move an on-ramp for corruption.

The Corporate Transparency Act, a bipartisan effort, includes a rule that requires many corporations and limited liability companies to disclose information on who owns and controls a business entity (also known as the beneficial owner) to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department.

"Exciting news!" wrote Trump on Truth Social when announcing that the Treasury Department would no longer enforce the reporting rule, which he called "invasive and outrageous."

Garbiel Zucman, a professor of economics, reposted Trump's message on X, and wrote: "Exciting news for tax evasion and money laundering!"

Economist and author Anders Åslund reacted to the update writing, "to oppose corporate transparency is to favor corruption."

Supporters of the Corporate Transparency Act, which has face court challenges, argue that the policy is an important step toward reining in anonymous companies, which are the preferred vehicle for moving around illicit funds.

"God, this is grim," weighed in author Oliver Bullough, who has written a book about global wealth and corruption. "The White House has killed the Corporate Transparency Act, which was itself a tiny first step in the marathon journey of stopping U.S. companies from being the most egregiously opaque shell structures on the planet."

In a Monday statement, Ian Gary, executive director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition, called the move a "hollowing out" of the Corporate Transparency Act that runs counter to years of bipartisan work to "end the scourge of anonymous shell companies."

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, for his part, said ceasing enforcement is a "victory for common sense," according to a Sunday statement. "Today's action is part of President Trump's bold agenda to unleash American prosperity by reining in burdensome regulations, in particular for small businesses that are the backbone of the American economy," he said. In response, Bullough, argued that Bessent doesn't recognize that fraud "suppresses prosperity, rather than enables it."

According to the announcement, the Treasury Department will issue a proposed rulemaking with the aim of narrowing the scope of the rule so that it solely applies to foreign reporting companies.

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DAVID MARCUS: President Trump, master of incendiary common sense

Trump frames issues in a way that forces Democrats to defend the indefensible

David Marcus By David Marcus Fox News

Published February 14, 2025

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In his recent successful presidential campaign and in his first month in office, President Donald Trump has used a remarkably effective rhetorical device that may best be described as "incendiary common sense."

The clearest example from the race, and where it became most clear, was the infamous allegation Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating cats and dogs. There was a three-step process in play.

First, liberals went absolutely crazy, calling Trump a racist for even suggesting it could be happening. Having gone to Springfield, the truth of the claim remains inconclusive to me, but that didn’t matter, because Step 2 was actual reporting about what was precisely happening in Springfield.

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Finally, Step 3 came when the American people asked themselves, "Well, why did we think dumping 20,000 Haitian migrants in a town of 50,000 was a good idea?"

Obviously, it was a horrible idea, as I learned from the residents there who never asked for it.

By the time the fires of outrage were extinguished, and the smoke cleared, Trump was sitting on the high ground of common sense. Suddenly, Democrats had to try to defend something indefensible.

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We see something similar unfolding now with DOGE. At first, the Trump White House leaned into the idea that Elon Musk and his merry band of boy genius coders would run roughshod over government spending. This led directly to screeching and howling about how Musk is an unelected autocrat, or the real president.

But once again, by the time the screaming fades, Americans are left asking why they are funding trans theater companies in Ireland or organizations that actively censor American citizens through agencies like USAID.

Once again, Trump lands on the side of common sense.

For another example, take Trump's referring to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the "Governor of Canada." The snark got everyone's attention, and when it wore off, we were left with very real and common sense questions about why our trade relationship with our neighbor to the north is so imbalanced.

What Trump manages to do, time after time, is to frame a common sense issue in a way that is so offensive to Democrats, or seems so over-the-top or ludicrous, that they cannot resist attacking him for it.

Common sense is a very ancient concept. Aristotle refers to it in his works on rhetoric by insisting that public speakers have a responsibility to address widely held attitudes. "Common" here doesn’t mean ordinary, it means shared.

Later philosophers would argue that common sense is the mechanism by which our five discrete senses create our reality. Others think of it as that which we all just know without thinking about it too much.

But of all the things common sense is or isn’t, one thing it does tend to be is a bit dull. How interesting can it be to say something 80% of people already take for granted?

This is where incendiary common sense becomes essential. What Trump manages to do, time after time, is to frame a common sense issue in a way that is so offensive to Democrats, or seems so over-the-top or ludicrous, that they cannot resist attacking him for it.

Trump is not the first important American to employ the tactic of incendiary common sense; that honor would go to Thomas Paine, whose pamphlet titled with those two words helped set the flame of the American Revolution.

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Paine applied rules to the common sense of freedom and liberty with such incendiary rhetoric and such a forceful call to action, that even those wary of revolt had no choice but to take note of it.

And here we are again.

Paine wrote:

Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general Favor; a long Habit of not thinking a Thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of Custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more Converts than Reason.

Indeed, time has made converts of Paine’s grateful descendants ready and welcome for the stern accounting Trump is ready to give our government.

But let us not be too harsh in this accounting. Let us maintain our just concerns for the poor and indigent. Conservatives, myself included, have long sought this power, and it was well won.

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My grandfather fought in World War II. He never got to go to college, but he put three kids through, and when I was in prep school he told me, "God made you smart. You didn’t earn that. Never use it against people who don’t have it."

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Feb 3, 2025 — Secular culture war issues — waged under the banner of “common sense” — meanwhile proved critical in building Trump's 2024 electoral coalition ...

By Megan Messerly

02/03/2025

For decades, the Republican Party has championed a culture war with Christianity at its center.

Under President Donald Trump, that war is taking a sharp turn toward the secular.

Banning gender treatments for minors, prohibiting transgender people from serving in the military, penalizing educators for teaching “critical race theory,” and asking federal employees to snitch on managers who promote diversity, equity and inclusion are in. New and aggressive strategies to restrict abortion access are out.

Trump’s early actions in his White House return reflect a bigger-tent GOP being shaped by a MAGA coalition that includes not only the evangelical Protestants and Catholics who have long made up the party’s socially conservative core, but a contingent of nonreligious Trump acolytes who are predominantly young, male and far more libertarian — and sexually libertine — than their Christian counterparts, according to interviews with more than a dozen religious and secular social conservatives. The latter group vehemently opposes policies that affirm transgender individuals and promote diversity, equity and inclusion, but take a more laissez-faire approach to past culture war issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.

It’s already causing tension within the MAGA coalition, with some abortion opponents quietly voicing frustration that the president hasn’t taken bolder action to restrict access in the early weeks of his administration.

But it underscores the broader political reality that Americans are more skeptical of gender policies and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts than they are of abortion access. While Trump appointed the Supreme Court justices who were key to overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, delivering on a key 2016 campaign promise and pleasing his evangelical base, the president backed away from the issue during his 2024 campaign as polling showed most Americans favor some level of abortion access. It also reflects a desire to tackle new issues after social conservatives won on abortion, through Roe v. Wade’s demise, and lost on same-sex marriage.

Secular culture war issues — waged under the banner of “common sense” — meanwhile proved critical in building Trump’s 2024 electoral coalition by helping woo younger men, including Black and Latino men.

“I’m not grounding [the belief that] men shouldn’t compete against women in any sort of biblical reading, or any sort of Quranic reading, or the Talmud or any other religious text,” said Clay Travis, founder of the sports commentary website OutKick who has been outspoken about transgender athletes.

“Democrats have lost their ever-loving minds,” added Travis, who said he used to be one. “A lot of reasonable, middle-of-the-road people like me have felt like the party abandoned us.”

Travis is among a group of influential media figures including podcaster Joe Rogan, the Nelk Boys and Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy who hold significant sway with this segment of the Trump base and are more concerned about DEI and trans issues than they are about abortion. They represent a departure from the buttoned-up Mike Pence-strand of social conservatism that has dominated the Republican Party since the era of the Moral Majority and continued to hold significant power during the first Trump administration.

The left is trying to combat what many acknowledge was an effective effort during the 2024 campaign to define policies that they say were intended to broaden LGBTQ+ rights and enhance opportunity for other marginalized groups as outside the mainstream. | Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images

“It’s straightforward,” said Alex Bruesewitz, CEO of the political consulting firm X Strategies and a Trump strategist who came to prominence as a Gen Z “America First” bulldog on social media. “Issues like protecting girls’ sports, and preventing minors from undergoing transition surgeries aren’t necessarily about religion. They’re about common sense.”

Trump’s executive actions represent an aggressive push to not only undo Biden administration policies but to take Trump’s first-term culture war agenda further, by using presidential authority to dramatically reshape the country’s social framework. Several of those actions came on Day One of his administration, in what Trump insiders see as a signal that they are a priority and a fulfilment of his campaign trail promises.

A senior White House official, granted anonymity to discuss the administration’s thinking, described the approach as an effort to course correct from “crazy land” and restore “normalcy in American culture.” The official acknowledged it’s an effort that has appeal to parts of the president’s base that approach this issue both from a faith-based and a secular perspective.

“You have a situation where you have evangelicals, conservative Christians that for their biblical reasoning are very happy that the president is combating this transgender wokeness, the indoctrination of kids, the oversexualization of kids. But then you also have mainstream America that prior to five to 10 years ago, these weren’t controversial things to say,” the official said. “You do have a merging of two sometimes non-consistent bedfellows in conservative America and mainstream America that really just wants to be on the same boat of common sense.”

Still, some traditional social conservatives on the religious right are underwhelmed at what they view as Trump’s bare-minimum actions on abortion. They include restricting federal funding for family planning domestically and health programs abroad that discuss abortion or provide referrals for the procedure — two policies anti-abortion groups are thrilled the president implemented, but that some acknowledge are still decades-old GOP policies that Trump didn’t reinstate until the fifth day of his presidency.

They recognize Trump as the “most pro-life president” in the country’s history, owing to the role he played in Roe’s demise. But they fear the president views their cause as “mission accomplished” and is now moving on. They are urging bolder action, including a ban on telehealth prescription and mail delivery of abortion pills and rules forcing states to provide more detailed information on all abortions within their borders.

“Some people are looking at it and saying, ‘Well, is the new social conservatism all about woke and DEI and not as much about life and traditional issues that have animated social conservatives?’ And if that is true, if there is a shift going on there, what does that mean for the pro-life agenda? And then what does that mean for pro-life public policy over the next four years?” said Tim Chapman, president of the group founded by Pence, Advancing American Freedom. “This administration has to figure out a way to unify that and not to put one part of the coalition in the driver’s seat and the other in the backseat.”

Some social conservatives see it as telling that Trump’s first action on abortion was pardoning nearly two dozen people who were convicted of blocking access to and temporarily shutting down abortion clinics. While they are pleased, they also see it as tied to the president’s vendetta against the Justice Department as much or more than an abortion policy.

The senior White House official argued the administration has “struck the appropriate chord” on the issue.

“What he’s really doing is restoring the actions that he took in his first term,” the official said, adding that “pro-life” policies are “still a priority of the administration, but it’s also a priority of the administration to just bring the country away from the far-left policies.”

Other religious conservatives, like Ralph Reed, founder and chair of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and a longtime Trump ally, welcome the newcomers.

“That’s the politics of addition. It’s not the politics of subtraction,” Reed said, adding that the ranks of religious conservatives have grown, too, and have become younger and more diverse. “This is not going to be your father’s religious right.”

The left meanwhile, is scrambling to catch up as Trump reverses Biden’s four-year-long inclusion agenda, almost overnight. They are trying to combat what many acknowledge was an effective effort during the 2024 campaign to define policies that they say were intended to broaden LGBTQ+ rights and enhance opportunity for other marginalized groups as outside the mainstream.

“If these things were truly common sense, you wouldn’t have to weaponize the federal government to enforce it,” said Delphine Luneau, a Human Rights Campaign spokesperson. “As a trans person, I’m very cognizant of the fact that even though we are ultimately probably going to end up stopping or even repealing in future years a lot of this bad policy, there is immediate harm happening.”

Trump didn’t start railing against “woke” ideology until his GOP primary opponent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, made it his calling card. Speaking to Des Moines conservatives in the summer of 2023, Trump said that he didn’t like the term “woke” because “it’s just a term they use. Half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is.”

Now, he uses the term liberally. In December, he referred to “woke culture” as “bullshit,” and at an event last weekend in Las Vegas, touted that his administration had “got rid of the woke crap.”

Polling shows that Americans’ views of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the workplace have become more negative over the last year, and that a slim majority of Americans believe changing one’s gender is morally wrong (though most still oppose bans on gender care for minors.) A recent New York Times/Ipsos poll also found that 79 percent of respondents said transgender female athletes should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.

Abortion restrictions, meanwhile, continue to be much more polarizing, with only a small minority — 12 percent — believing access to the procedure should be illegal in all circumstances, according to Gallup polling.

Trump pollster John McLaughlin said that while people weren’t necessarily casting their ballot on transgender issues, they largely agreed with Trump on the issue, which allowed the campaign to paint Democrats, and specifically former Vice President Kamala Harris, as extreme. One of the most memorable ads from the 2024 cycle, which was run by Trump’s campaign, argued that “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”

“If you asked, what’s the most important issue that decided their vote, they were telling us inflation, border security, crime,” McLaughlin said. “Transgender issues didn’t pop on that list. But when you ask them do they agree or disagree that there’s only two genders, or that biological men should be playing high school and college girls sports, they definitely disagreed.”

*Alice Miranda Ollstein contributed to this report.

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Feb 6, 2025 — How populist leaders like Trump use 'common sense' as an ideological weapon to undermine facts. Published: February 6, 2025 8:23am EST.

it’s “the revolution of common sense,” President Donald Trump announced in his second inaugural address. [vid]

And so it is. The latest installment of that assertion came in hisJan. 30, 2025, press conference about the Potomac plane crash. When asked how he had concluded that diversity policies were responsible for a crash that was still under investigation, Trump responded, “Because I have common sense, OK?”

“Common sense” is what’s known to scholars as a “lay epistemology,” or how regular people make sense of the world. We don’t rely on statistical evidence or expert research while we’re buying lettuce or driving in traffic. Instead, we’re guided by direct experience, emotions and intuition.

Because it comes from regular people and not institutions that some people deem to be “corrupt,” champions of common sense suggest it leads to a purer form of truth.

President Donald Trump is asked how he could conclude that DEI policies caused the Potomac plane crash.

Yet it is precisely because it comes from personal observations and intuition that research shows common sense is steeped in bias and often leads us astray.

Populist leaders like Trump commonly celebrate common sense and attack expertise and evidence. Populism is less about being liberal or conservative than it is a way of appealing to the public. These appeals are based on a moral separation between the corrupt, bad people with cultural power and the good, pure people who hold the right values – like faith in common sense over expertise and evidence.

And with the new Trump administration, the elevation of common sense as a virtue has been quick and broad.

Dusty boots vs. elite credentials

In his confirmation hearing for the position of secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth pointed to “dust on his boots” as evidence of his qualifications, in contrast to the elite credentials of past defense secretaries, who have often been Washington insiders.

Hegseth couldn’t name members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, an alliance of countries playing a crucial role in global security. But he did show that he knew the diameter of the rounds that fit in the magazine of an M4 rifle.

That was evidence that he was, in his words, “a change agent. Someone with no vested interest in certain companies or specific programs or approved narratives.”

Even Meta’s announcement that it would roll back expert fact-checking on its U.S. social media platforms reflects a “lay epistemic” shift.

Meta explained that fact-checkers, “like everyone else, have their own biases and perspectives” and that these biases had made fact-checking “a tool to censor.”

Instead, the company would embrace a community notes model where users could provide additional information on posts, which Meta argued would be “less prone to bias.”

“We’ve seen this approach work on X,” wrote Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan, “where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, and people across a diverse range of perspectives decide what sort of context is helpful for other users to see.”

This policy change is probably less of a shift in Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s principles than a change made out of necessity. Given Trump’s penchant for falsehoods, I imagine Meta’s previous policy would soon have proved financially and politically inconvenient.

Regardless, the result is a populist’s dream: the demotion of formal expertise in favor of “common sense.”

When asked whether he knew the members of a regional security alliance, defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth was stumped.

Common sense is ideological

For the past two decades, the rise in social media, combined with declining trust in formal news organizations, has democratized knowledge: the sense that no one person or institution has special access to truth – not scholars with many degrees, not experts armed with scientific evidence or data, and definitely not journalists.

In a 2020 study of public sentiment across 20 countries, Pew Research Center found that the overwhelming majority of those surveyed, 66%, reported trusting people with “practical experience” to solve problems over experts. Only 28% trusted the experts to solve problems.

If institutions and experts are perceived as corrupt and ideological, the only truth that we can trust is what comes from our own eyes and our own minds.

But does common sense bring us to truth? Sometimes, yes. It’s also appealing: Since our observations of the world are informed by our values and beliefs, we often see what we want – such as diversity-hiring initiatives known as “DEI” causing a plane crash, for example.

And our intuition rarely tells us we’re wrong. This helps account for the existence of confirmation bias, which is our tendency to see and remember things that tell us we’re right. This is also why, even in those rare instances when facts change minds, they rarely change hearts. If we do update our knowledge with correct information, research has shown that our gut will still tell us our overall view of the world was right.

Ironically, studies also show that the more a person trusts common sense, the more likely they are to be wrong.

My research has shown that the people most likely to believe misinformation about COVID-19 and the 2020 election were those who placed more trust in intuition and emotion, and less trust in evidence and data. In addition, the more people liked Donald Trump, the more they valued intuition and emotion – and rejected evidence and data.

So, common sense is ideological.

When our pathway to knowledge is limited by our experiences and intuition, we’re not actually looking for truth. We’re happy with whatever answers are available, including conspiracy theories or explanations that make us feel good and right.

We blame individuals – especially people we don’t like or identify with – for their own misfortune. We tend to think “those people should be better and try harder” instead of looking for public policy solutions to problems such as poverty or drug addiction. Without evidence and data summarizing large trends – such as cancer rates tracked through National Institutes of Health funding or ocean temperatures tracked by National Science Foundation funding – we are limited to what we can see through our own eyes and biases.

And our limited observations merely reinforce our underlying beliefs: “My neighbor probably has breast cancer from taking that medicine I don’t like” or “Today is probably just a randomly hot day.” We’ll either overgeneralize from or downplay these limited examples depending on what our “common sense” says.

So, when populists elevate common sense as a virtue, it’s not just to celebrate how regular people understand the world. It’s to promote a worldview that rejects verifiable facts, exaggerates our biases, and paves the way for even more propaganda to come.

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GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): Harold, let me try to break this down for you, because I know that some of these concepts are a little complicated. We know that high taxes disincentivizes work -- why work more if the government takes more? Whereas a tariff disincentivizes consumption, so -- "I have to pay for this, maybe I won't eat as much." So, isn't the international tariff an international consumption tax? And why are you against it, commie?

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Despite Donald Trump’s promise of “Uniting our Nation,” top Republicans kicked off the 2024 Republican National Convention Monday with attacks on LGBTQ Americans, at times invoking religion, to raucous applause and approval from the GOP delegates.

“This fringe agenda includes biological males competing against girls and the sexualization and indoctrination of our children,” declared U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), a common right-wing attack on transgender children (video below). The GOP delegates, who hours before had pumped their fists in the air and chanted “Fight! Fight! Fight!” were quick to respond to Johnson’s denigrations with waves of booing.

“Today’s Democrat agenda, their policies, are a clear and present danger to America, to our institutions, our values and our people,” Johnson continued. “Democrats have forgotten American families. They’ve abandoned the hard-working middle class. But with President Trump and Republicans, those forgotten Americans are forgotten no more.”

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a self-avowed Christian nationalist, declared Trump the “founding father of the America First movement,” and said, “I thank God that His hand was on President Trump” during the assassination attempt that took the life of a 50-year old retired fire chief sitting behind him.

“The establishment in Washington has sold us out,” Greene went on to say. “They promised unity and delivered division. They promised peace and brought war. They promised normalcy and gave us Transgender Visibility Day on Easter Sunday,” she charged, another common right wing attack that ignores Easter Sunday is on different days each year.

After the crowd booed, she continued.

“And let me state this clearly: There are only two genders,” Greene declared, raising her her hand with two fingers up. “And we are made in God’s image. Amen.”

“And we won’t shy away from speaking that simple truth, ever.”

At the end of her speech, Greene vowed, “as God as my witness, He will finally give us the country we deserve. Because Donald John Trump is the leader American deserves. God bless the American people. God bless President Trump, and God bless the United States of America.”

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