Tonight, Donald Trump Can't Lose

[SUBSCRIBE - Get Print and Full Digital]( [open] [View in your browser]( November 7, 2017 [Donald Trump Can't Lose]( If Ed Gillespie wins tonight, it’s proof that Trumpism is triumphant in the Republican party. Gillespie may have been a longtime establishment... [Read More]( [The Democrats' Virginia Freak-Out]( Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, executive editor Fred Barnes talks with host Eric Felten about today's Virginia gubernatorial election and... [Read More]( [Has 100 Years of Communism Taught Us Nothing?]( While we’re distracted reliving last year’s election, a graver anniversary will be passing by. On Nov. 8, 1917, at 2:10 a.m., Vladimir Lenin’s... [Read More]( [TWS CRUISE 2017 FALL]( [Harvey Weinstein and the Victim's Dilemma]( Each new report of sexual harassment and assault that has come out in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein revelations—Kevin Spacey, James Toback,... [Read More]( [Tuesday Morning Quarterback: Don't Fall for the NFL's Chauvinism]( In week nine, many NFL head and assistant coaches were dressed in camo-stylized gear that suggested military fatigues. At attention along the... [Read More]( [Free Flag Pin]( Afternoon Links All Hail the Middle Man. (Or at least this one.) Meet Ryan Grant, a 28 year old who raids the clearance aisle at big box stores, and [upsells items as a third party seller on Amazon](. He started doing this to make some side hustle money, but then quit his job in accounting to do it full time. It quickly started consuming space: Boxes upon boxes destined for Amazon warehouses started stacking up in Grant's duplex so, in the spring of 2014, he rented out a 725-foot warehouse. He packed his Mazda 626 full of products on runs back and forth from other brand-name retailers like Target and Toys R Us. "It was starting to basically take over my life because I'm coming home and there's product all over my house," he recalls. When the 30 hours of shopping and the 15 hours of preparing shipments each week became too much to handle alone, Grant hired his first employee, a friend who could help scour local stores. Arbitrage, baby! Maybe not all Millennials are bad. Who are the real flyover people? As a midwesterner, it always bothered me when people's attacks on Washington got personal. "You wouldn't know what it's like out here, outside the Beltway!" Oh, ok. Similarly, there are folks in the big east coast cities who derisively refer to the places people like me call home (Ohio, Missouri) as "flyover country." At MarginalRevolution, Tyler Cowen wonders, who are the real flyover people? Meaning, [those who are flown over the most]( Answer: "The state flown over the most actually is…Virginia." I guess I live in a flyover state after all! Dr. Carter Page's Rumbling Bumbling Stumbling Intel Testimony. It's amazing that a man with this CV could sound so... dumb. Have a few hours to kill? Here's [200 pages]( of Carter Page, formerly of the Trump campaign, representing himself before the committee. It is bonkers. Or, read this humorous (but not unfair) [faux summation by Alexandra Petri]( it's not too far from the truth. Look At What You Made Me Do. Taylor Swift, artist extraordinaire, has denounced the alt-right, in a letter from her lawyers: "Let this letter stand as a yet another unequivocal denouncement by Ms. Swift of white supremacy and the alt-right.” As the kids say, "way to go fam!" (Did I do that right?) But the denunciation is a little... weird. Taylor was (via lawyers) responding to a [kooky social justice blogger]( and law student who [basically compared her to Hitler]( Taylor’s silence is not innocent, it is calculated. And if that is not true, she needs to state her beliefs out loud for the world — no matter what fan base she might lose, because in America 2017, silence in the face of injustice means support for the oppressor" This is the latest installment in the You Will Be Made to Care™ movement. Back to the letter from Taylor's lawyer and why it was weird. As LawNewz [reports]( the letter contained this line: This is a confidential legal notice and is not for publication. Any publication, dissemination or broadcast of any portion of this letter will constitute a breach of confidence and a violation of Copyright Act. You are not authorized to publish this letter in whole or in part absent our express written authorization. The ACLU has stepped in (correctly) to defend the social justice blogger, since this tactic is... let's be kind and say an inventive view of copyright law. This blogger may be everything that's wrong with the politicized world, but hey: she gets results. —Jim Swift, Deputy Online Editor Please feel free to send us comments, thoughts and links to dailystandard@weeklystandard.com. -30- This email was sent by: The Weekly Standard A MediaDC Publication 1152 15th Street, NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20005 We respect your right to privacy - [View our Policy]( [Manage Subscriptions]( | [One-Click Unsubscribe](