Programming note: Tomorrow, Wednesday, I'll be hosting another edition of our Clubland Q&A taking questions from Steyn Clubbers live around the planet at 3pm North American Eastern - which, for a couple of weeks as we spring into summer, is an hour earlier across the Atlantic: 7pm Greenwich Mean Time/8pm Central European.
~Happy St Patrick's Day to our many Irish readers around the world. We begin with the official greeting of the new "President of Ireland" - not an office I am especially minded to recognise, since her grisly predecessor (a close pal of the King, I'm told) attacked me in the Dáil:
I now read articles in The Irish Times by somebody included for balance, Mark Steyn... Repeatedly this column of bigotry, homophobia and racism that is presented every Monday contains attacks on what we call the basic decencies on some principle of balance. The editor of that newspaper would want to indicate to me what she is balancing when she produces material like ...the slick, degrading, immoral rubbish which is being propounded every Monday in that newspaper. It is an example of the degraded level to which we are falling.
Ah, the good old days. Anyway, Mr Higgins' successor is even more quintessentially Irish: Catherine Connolly is a pro-abortion socialist who regards Israel as a "genocidal state". Just as I do not recognise "President" Connolly, so Catherine does not recognise "Saint" Patrick:
In 63 seconds, Ireland's new President, and her first ST. Patrick's Day message she sends out a message to humiliate Ireland with woke nonense.
In 63 seconds
She calls SAINT Patrick, Patrick four times.
— Kirk_Loco (@Polito_loco) March 16, 2026
In turn ignoring Ireland's Catholic historical traditions.
Refuses to wear... pic.twitter.com/I5AoAdBL0P
Warning! Bollocks incoming:
The story of Patrick's life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants...
Yes, indeed: St Patrick was a "migrant". Because he was born in, er; England - most likely in what's now Cumbria, just south of Hadrian's Wall. And who in Ireland does not admire "the resilience and courage" of English migrants to the Emerald Isle? But wait, Catherine has more on the patron saint of migrants:
...the resilience and courage of migrants, the invaluable contributions that they have made, and continue to make, to the countries they now call home, sometimes even in the face of great adversity.
So Ireland's national day is the perfect time to celebrate the invaluable contributions that Patrick and his fellow migrants - whether English like Patrick and, um, Cromwell, or Somali like the soon-to-be Sunni Ascendancy - have made and continue to make to Ireland, sometimes even in the face of great adversity from you tediously parochial bigoted bog-trotters...
With Irishmen like Catherine, who needs the Black & Tans?
The last century of Irish self-government has been a complete waste of time - the final page in a great people's long history.
~THE MICROPENIS THAT ATE MAGA: I started the day with my delightful Provençal nurse, but made the mistake of checking my inbox during her examination and suddenly laughed so much that whichever instrument she was wielding gave me a bit of a nick. So she told me to set down my device, and asked what was so funny anyway. I forebore to tell her because I didn't know the French word for micropenis. It is, of course, micropénis.
Anyway, from the overnight headlines, I gather that the Iran war is in danger of degenerating into a proxy war for the real existential struggle between "Micropenis Mark" Levin and the woman he calls an "emotionally unhinged" "harlot", Megyn Kelly:
The 'Micropenis' Beef Between Megyn Kelly and Mark Levin
The Mark Levin Question: Does He Really Have a Micropenis — Or Just Act Like It?
Trump Rushes to Defend Fox Host From Megyn Kelly's 'Micropenis' Insults
As I have said many times, I have no interest in what Levin said about Megyn said about Ben said about Tucker... I am thousands of miles away and have been out of US media for half-a-decade - since the show I did with Kathryn Limbaugh a couple of days after Rush's death. Nonetheless, several readers have asked where I stand on Mr Levin's micropenis. To be honest, I try not to go anywhere near it. I once stood on it, accidentally, in the CRTV locker room and never heard the end of it. I may expand on the matter in tomorrow's Q&A, if you run into me in the pub beforehand and get me a little over-lubricated.
However, what makes the micropenile brouhaha different is that the President chose to weigh in:
For the record, I've been on the Trump train since July 10th 2015. Levin got on board twenty minutes before the November 2016 election because his Never-Trumpism was hurting his bottom line. So a lot of Trump supporters were a little surprised to discover that the Commander-in-Chief took a break from a new and intensive war to issue a lengthy decree that MAGA=Micropenis:
Trump's Defense of Mark Levin Amid Megyn Kelly's 'Micropenis' Attack Roils Some Conservatives: 'Handing MAGA to the Neocons'
Levin, for his part, is denying that he went, as Miss Kelly puts it, "running to Daddy about his micropenis". On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised: Levin bombarded Rush with demands that he fire me as guest-host. I regret that the President, unlike Rush, proved more biddable.
To reiterate, I have no interest in dreary media-infighting, not when the entirety of our civilisation is in its last decade-and-a-half, tops. But I am interested in Trump winning big enough in November to overcome what I have called for twenty years "the margin of lawyer", and more recently "the margin of fraud". The Democrats were able to steal the 2020 election because, in the preceding Year of Covid, Trump had lost sufficient of his 2016 base - mainly white blue-collar men in purple states - to put the Dems back within grasp of election-stealing. What was Trump doing that critical final year? Cocooning himself in a bubble, dining with Sean Hannity multiple times per week. In 2024 he campaigned with a rather broader coterie - Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr, Joe Rogan and, yes, Megyn Kelly - and maximised his turnout. All of the preceding have been absent from the presidential circle during the build-up to war, while Levin has been literally all over Trump:
If ever there were an occasion to channel Frank Sinatra's words to Sam Rayburn on stage at the 1956 Democrat convention - "Hands off the threads, creep" - the above is it.
Trump's youth supporters - by which I mean anybody under sixty - didn't vote for Levin-era "conservatism". As today's resignation letter by the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center reminds us:
I support the values and the foreign policies that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, 2024, which you enacted in your first term. Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation.
Including his own wife.
If you want this war won and over, then a commander-in-chief who takes time off from bombing Kharg Island to pen personally (as Levin insists he did) effusive encomia to insecure Con Inc weenies is not helpful. If the war goes south, military colleges around the world will be teaching Mark Levin's micropenis for the next two centuries.
~AND FINALLY... Our Bottom Story of the Day (for once, nothing to do with Ukrainian twinks):
'Never underestimate the capacity of Starmer to stay calm', Finland's president says
~Thank you to all those new members of The Mark Steyn Club in this our ninth year, and thank you to those old members who've signed up a chum for a Gift Certificate or a Gift Membership. Steyn Clubbers span the globe, from London, Ontario to London, England to London, Kiribati. We hope to welcome many more new members in the years ahead.
