Welcome!
WELCOME. I am Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill, writer, conservative, and far-right racist-sexist-homophobe.
My current blog is at Substack:
I have written two books:
I have written weekly op-eds at The American Thinker for 20 years:
I have created the following websites on US government spending going back to 1792:
I have created the following websites on UK government spending going back to 1692:
I have created the following informational websites about the United States:
Once upon a time I wrote the following blogs:
Road to the Middle Class is the site for my book that investigates and celebrates the cultural artefacts that ordinary people appropriate as they struggle to adapt from country ways to the demands of life in the city. Start here.
An American Manifesto is the site for my book about "life after liberalism". Start here.
USgovernmentspending.com is a resource on government spending in the United States. It presents tables and charts on federal, state, and local government expenditure in the United States from 1902 to the present. Spending data are sourced from US budget data and US Census reports. Start here.
USgovernmentrevenue.com is a resource on government taxes and receipts in the United States. It presents tables and charts on federal, state, and local government taxes, charges, use fees, and business revenue in the United States from 1902 to the present. Revenue data are sourced from US budget data and US Census reports. Start here.
UKpublicspending.co.uk is a resource on public spending in the United Kingdom. It presents tables and charts on public expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public corporations in the United Kingdom from 1900 to the present. Spending data is sourced from UK government Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses, the UK National Statistics “Blue Book,” and academic studies. Start here.
UKpublicrevenue.co.uk is a resource on public revenue in the United Kingdom. It presents tables and charts on public revenues by central government, and local authorities in the United Kingdom from 1900 to the present. Revenue data is sourced from UK Office for Budget Responsibility, the UK National Statistics and academic studies. Start here.
American Thinker publishes my op-eds most weeks. Click here.
US Stuck on Stupid analyzes the perfect storm of political bungling in the years from 1929 to 1939 that plunged the American people into untold misery during the Great Depression. Start here.
US Presidential Elections tabulates the results of presidential elections going back to 1788. Start here.
US Midterm Elections tabulates the history of midterm elections for the US Senate and the US House of Representatives going back to 1790. You can sort the elections by year, by party strength, and by party gains and losses. Start here.
Road to the Middle Class Blog is a blog that investigates and celebrates the cultural artefacts that ordinary people appropriate as they struggle to adapt from country ways to the demands of life in the city. Start here.
An American Manifesto is a blog about "life after liberalism". Start here.
Biography
I AM CHRISTOPHER CHANTRILL, a member of the international capitalist conspiracy. Both my grandfathers owned and operated import/export businesses in the early twentieth century, one in St. Petersburg, Russia, where my father was born, and the other in Kobe, Japan, where my mother was born.
I was born in India and raised and educated in England. I immigrated to the United States in 1968 and worked for many years designing and implementing utility control systems and software in Seattle.
Soon after moving to Seattle, I instinctively revolted against the suffocating left-coast culture of the Soviet of Washington, and soon came to revere the four great Germans who helped inspire the Reagan revolution: Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Leo Strauss, and Eric Voegelin. Since then I have broadened my appreciation of “The German Turn” that has transformed the world over the last 200 years.
I have written for Liberty, FrontPageMag.com, and The American Thinker. My book Road to the Middle Class celebrates the self-governing culture of the United States in which enthusiastic Christianity, education, mutual aid, and living under law have taught generations of immigrants to rise from indigence in the countryside to a life of competence and prosperity in the city. My book An American Manifesto: Life after Liberalism tries to imagine what America would look like after the end of left-wing politics and big government.
Disclaimer and Transparency
WE make no respresentation about the accuracy of the data presented in these websites. Nor does Christopher Chantrill represent himself to possess any formal qualifications to select, evaluate or present the information. Users are urged to check all data against the published data sources and to report any errors or inconsistencies.
The websites have no relationship with any government institution, or any other institution. They are supported solely by advertising and by the life, fortune, and sacred honor of Christopher Chantrill.
Daily Blogging
WE BLOG DAILY, Monday to Friday, chiefly on national US politics, religion, education, mutual aid, and law. We also look at our junior partners in the global Anglospheric hegemony, the British. It is hard to say why, but very often our blogging zeroes in like a laser on liberal hypocrisies, monopolies, and sinecures. Of course, we love our liberal friends to bits, but we do not take them quite as seriously as they do. If we get too pompous and serious, please get in touch and tell us to lighten up.
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It’s the Economy, Stupid
It’s funny isn’t it. All the talk of “affordability” and inflation.
And it’s Trump’s fault. Because it’s on his watch.
Why do we have an affordability problem? Because the administrative state, Dr. Fauci, General Director, decided to shut down the economy in February 2020 and then Jerome Powell, Assistant Director, increased the M2 money supply by 40 percent between March 2020 and March 2022 to send checks to everyone while the economy was shut down.
But it is Trump’s fault.
Of course, Trump could have sent Dr. Fauci to Outer Slobbovia for his ridiculous World War, which was really a coverup of his Gain-of-function Industrial Complex. But the fact is that governments love a war, whether World War Kaiser, World War Nazi, World War Commie, World War Race, World War Gender, World War Climate, or World War COVID, and Trump is nothing if not a Man in the Arena. You know all my maxims on the subject of politics and war:
There is no politics without an enemy.
War is the mere continuation of politics by other means.
We have always been at war with East Asia.
Let’s say that World Wars Kaiser, Nazi, Commie were all a Good Thing. But in my view the last four World Wars, ending in COVID, were a proof of Eric Hoffer’s dictum, that every mass movement ends up as a racket. If you don’t believe that WW Race, Gender, Climate, COVID were rackets, I gotta bridge…
But the real question is: How do we get out of here? How do we dial down the politics so that it doesn’t even occur to the average politician to ask, like the Irish of old: “would yer be lookin’ for a foight, then?”
Here is my dream.
“I have a dream that one day this nation” will be the first people in world history to turn politics into sport.
Because? Because:
Humans no longer live by defending their food growing territory from invasion.
Humans are social animals that look after each other and fix things and make things and build cities and see the USA in a Chevrolet and help the poor and the helpless without government force.
Humans invented the market economy and it works.
Humans have tried socialism and it doesn’t work.
Humans invented shame to keep most bad actors in check.
Humans invented law to help negotiate differences short of violence.
Humans invented police to put the vigilantes out of business.
But the fact is that, like the Jets and the Sharks, young men like a bit of a rumble, and God invented sport to help them cool their jets.
I say that the man who invents the game of Politics as Sport deserves to be remembered as the GOAT of the World, celebrated from pole to pole and shore to shore. Maybe all we need to do is sit teenage boys down to Minecraft for 10 hours a day until they get war out of their system.
And as for the fools and knaves that don’t get with the new program, the Mikado suggests something with boiling oil in it.
| Wed, 04 Nov 2026 22:43:15 GMT |
What Do the Augurs Say About Haley Stevens?
All of our Democratic friends are enraged at the betrayal of the Party by Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) who broke with Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and cuddled up with the Republican candidate Mike Rogers.
But really, isn’t it about time for the Democrats to split apart?
I mean, if you are a semi-moderate that’s all in for all the welfare state programs from FDR to LBJ, but you feel a bit queasy about the end letters on LGBTQ and men in the women’s bathroom and kids being transitioned by their public school administrators without parental notification, let along consent, and Gaza genocide and hate the Jews and women in hijabs and full-on socialism with the DSA? Wouldn’t you be getting ready to head for the exits?
I affect to understand what is going on, because I believe in Crane Brinton’s narrative in The Anatomy of Revolution. As a revolution fails, the moderates get ejected — or guillotined — by the extremists. Until Thermidor and eventually Napoleon.
Here’s one of my takes on Brinton’s theory.
But our story is written on a larger canvas, going back no later than the 1880s and the birth of the administrative state in the US with the Pendleton Act. Ever since, the educated experts have proposed one administrative government program after another. But here we are, 150 years later, and anyone with half a brain would be asking “what’s the point?” And the rest of America would be instinctively feeling that something was wrong.
But the logic of war and the logic of politics is that you don’t ever give up. You always rally the troops for one more Big Push.
That’s because of Clausewitz and “war is the mere continuation of politics by other means” and my corollary that “politics is the mere continuation of war by other means.”
Until the regime collapses and a new set of rascals rises to power.
Another of my ideas is that while people in politics use a moral agenda to justify their political power — such as “fight for the workers” or “fight for the victim du jour” — it all ends up as politicians taxing the rest of us to reward their supporters. Right now, my beloved Rep. Primila Jayapal (D-WA) is raging on X for Medicare For All. So that everyone can afford health care. Ultimately it comes down to taxing everyone to give money to everyone. Except that government programs never work, because Science.
And so we get to the revolutionary moment where half the country is yelling Off With Their Heads and the other half is yelling Don’t You Dare Touch My Benefits.
I understand our DSA friends and the youngsters all excited about socialism as a moral feeling in the young generation that They Was Robbed by the old geezers.
Of course they were. It’s in the jeans of politics, which is always and everywhere about allies and enemies. Enemies? Billionaires, racists, transphobes. Allies? Vote for me and you will get free stuff.
That is all.
But the problem is that the DSA kids are going to need to tap into the benefits now being handed out to moderate Democratic voters. And at some point the moderate Democratic voters will head for the exits.
What’s a nice moderate Democrat, like Haley Stevens, to do? Well, she starts by being concerned about the wild and crazy DSAers. Then, at some point, she has to decide whether she belongs in the DSA camp or whether she should sneak away in the middle of the night and show up at the GOP tents and ask if they have room.
Meanwhile, there is the minor problem that you can’t run the economy from the government with taxes and spending and rules and regulations and handouts. The economy just doesn’t work like a slave plantation where everyone sits around until the overseer with the cowskin whip tells them what to do for the day and hands out their meager rations. You need a market economy with businesses and prices and wages and investing and lots of people with crazy ideas and a few people with crazy ideas that work. Unless you prefer to live as a slave.
And there is the other problem that politicians and bureaucrats and administrators and activists have absolutely no idea how to run the economy.
Yep, no doubt a whole bunch of moderate Democrats are in the process of heading out into the political wilderness, and maybe start to vote Republican. And maybe the Democratic party will be the party of hard-left educated activists and Muslim fraudsters.
Or maybe not.
| Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:56:15 GMT |
At usgovernmentspending.com we have assembled a record of government spending in the United States for the last century. You can view government spending, federal, state, and local, for every year from 1902 to the present. And you can generate charts of that spending. more>>
At usgovernmentrevenue.com we have assembled a record of government revenue in the United States for the last century. You can view government receipts, federal, state, and local, for every year from 1902 to the present. And you can generate charts of that revenue. more>>
At ukpublicspending.co.uk we have assembled a record of public spending in the United Kingdom for the last century. You can view British public spending, central government and local authority, for every year from 1983 to the present. And you can generate charts of that spending. more>>
The Road to the Middle Class is a journey from a world of power to a world of trust and love. In religion, it is a journey from power gods that respond to sacrifice and augury to the God who makes a covenant with mankind. In education, it is a journey from the world of the spoken word to the world of the written word. In community, it is the journey from dependence on blood kin and upon clientage under a great lord to the mutual aid and the rules of the self-governing fraternal association. In law it is the journey from the violence of force and feud to the king’s peace, the law of contract, and private property.
Road to the Middle Class: The Book
With the failure of the welfare state, it is time to consider what comes next. In "An American Manifesto: Life After Liberalism" I develop a narrative about where we are and where we should go to redeem the American experiment.
An American Manifesto: The Book
Action
The incentive that impels a man to act is always some uneasiness...
But to make a man act [he must have]
the expectation that purposeful behavior has the power to remove
or at least to alleviate the felt uneasiness.
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Chappies
“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie
that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.”
—Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
China and Christianity
At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
Churches
[In the] higher Christian churches... they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
Class War
In England there were always two sharply opposed middle classes, the academic middle class and the commercial middle class. In the nineteenth century, the academic middle class won the battle for power and status... Then came the triumph of Margaret Thatcher... The academics lost their power and prestige and... have been gloomy ever since.
Freeman Dyson, “The Scientist as Rebel”
Conservatism
Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says ‘we should...’.
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity
Conservatism's Holy Grail
What distinguishes true Conservatism from the rest, and from the Blair project, is the belief in more personal freedom and more market freedom, along with less state intervention... The true Third Way is the Holy Grail of Tory politics today - compassion and community without compulsion.
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph