Garion Frankel

Garion "Gary" Frankel is a Young Voices contributor, and a Ph.D. student in PK-12 educational leadership at Texas A&M University, where he researches arts, civics, and humanities education. He also used to be involved in Republican politics, which means he loves complaining about all the things he used to have to keep quiet about.

No Country For Young Men? Nah, It’s Time to Grow Up

Garion Frankel March 6, 2025

This is not an easy world in which to be a young man, but it is no...

Conservatives Should Know What They’re Conserving

Garion Frankel December 30, 2023

Conservatives need to address two questions: What is it that we want to conserve, and how, exactly,...

I’m Worried About the Gadsden Flag Kid

Garion Frankel September 5, 2023

Adult right-wing influencers are parading the Gadsden Flag kid around the internet like an idol, a life...

Conservatives Should Rediscover John Quincy Adams

Garion Frankel January 9, 2023

John Quincy Adams used his 17 years in the House to fight for causes that he believed...

Burt Likko in reply to InMD on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaWhich is a great shame upon the nation of El Salvador.
InMD in reply to Slade the Leveller on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025This has to be unprecedented in modern US history in terms of being totally self inflicted. It's goi…
Slade the Leveller in reply to InMD on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaYep. At some point (hopefully) someone's going to have to say, "You have done enough. Have you no se…
Slade the Leveller in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Lovely. Just in time for my UK vacation. I wonder if the people who voted for Trump because they wan…
InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Dollar down 10% since inauguration day as investors abandoning it due to tariff chaos. Yikes. https:…
InMD in reply to Slade the Leveller on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaTo be clear I'm really talking about taking the L and conceding the issue for the near future, with…
bobtuse in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025"We" need only to declare a national emergency. That should speed things up bigly.
Slade the Leveller in reply to InMD on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaThat assumes there was a compromise to be had. Hell's bells, Republicans scuttled their own bill las…
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The law firm agreements are exactly what you expect: "One reason we know they’re not legally enforce…
Michael Cain in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025It's not an either-or situation. Well, I guess it is if you start from the position, "I want REEs mi…