Alastair Crooke - Western Cross-Currents: Cultural Populism vs Deep Architecture

Democrats Plan To Abandon Their Corrosive Cultural Agenda And Run As Moderates In The Midterms

By Manzanita Miller In the wake of last week’s Democrat victories in New Jersey and Virginia, which saw the two Democratic candidates for governor driving turnout to near presidential-election levels, it’s worth looking at the strategies prominent Democrats are cooking up to seize the House of Representatives in 2026. Democrats are slowly beginning to realize their deeply corrosive cultural agenda combined with a flat-out refusal to address econ…

Alastair Crooke - Western cross-currents: Cultural populism vs deep architecture

The golden age of America, if it ever was golden, is no longer to be found. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal The starting gun for the U.S. 2026 Midterms was fired this week with three consequential elections and a key re-districting poll held in California. The Democrats swept three major races (NY, NJ, VA) and won the re-…