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Is Sarah Huckabee Sanders Already Auditioning for Vice-President? It’s one theory for why she’s running a savage culture-war campaign for Arkansas governor. The others are scarier.
capitol riot
July 1, 2021
Kevin McCarthy Between Rock and a Wild Place on January 6 Inquiry The minority leader opposes GOP cooperation with a select committee that his most out-of-control members want to join. He has no great options.
Why Republicans Want Voters to Panic About Critical Race Theory GOP complaints are largely based on myths, but they think scaring white middle-class parents is a winning electoral strategy.
maga in miami
June 8, 2021
Republican States Go to War Against Democratic Local Governments Who cares about decentralized governance any more? Certainly not Trumpian Republicans, who want power for the level of government that obeys them.
voting rights
May 30, 2021
Democrats Need a New Plan to Defend Voting Rights The outlook is dim for voting-rights legislation. DOJ enforcement and voter mobilization may be Democrats’ best shot for defending democracy.
Greene’s Logic: Democrats Are Nazis, So Their Agenda Is Like the Holocaust In the MAGA world, where all Democrats are socialists, and Adolf Hitler was a socialist, all Democratic initiatives are like the Holocaust.
Election ‘Audit’ Fever Spreads Beyond Arizona From New Hampshire to Wisconsin and even California, recounts are being used to supposedly vindicate Trump and justify voter suppression.
Are Republicans Finally Standing Up to the Proud Boys? Mainstream Republicans are demanding an investigation into Proud Boy influence in the Nevada GOP that could bring down the state party leadership.
Matt Gaetz Distracts From Sex-Trafficking Probe With False Election Fraud Claims As the inquiry into an alleged act of sex trafficking develops, Gaetz is spreading falsehoods about the election with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
2021 elections
May 11, 2021
MAGA + Money Wins Virginia’s GOP Gubernatorial Race “Christian outsider businessman” Glenn Youngkin has the dough to keep things interesting against Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
Mike Pence Trudges Towards 2024 After his breach with Trump, is the former vice president really anything more than another Dan Quayle?
Trump’s GOP Enemies Try 3 Strategies for Survival Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and Brian Kemp exhibit different ways Republican politicians are dealing with the Boss’s disdain.
Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene Hit Road to Needlessly Rally MAGA Base The bad boy and bad girl of right-wing extremism are pairing up for a series of rallies to keep the movement humming pending Trump’s vengeful return.
You Cannot Reason With the GOP’s Conspiracists The conservative fever Barack Obama thought might soon break is now instilling systemic belief in conspiracies on the right.
election coup
Apr. 14, 2021
Will Republicans Try Another Election Coup in 2024? Jonathan Last argues that 2020 could have been a dress rehearsal, and that a 2022 purge by Trump could make it work next time.
A Dwindling Republican Party May Be Doomed to Shrink More The trouble with losing swing voters is that it can make the residual party base more entrenched in its exclusive ways.
Kristi Noem Angers Her Base With Transgender Sports-Ban Veto The South Dakota governor was a MAGA favorite thanks to her fight against pandemic public-health measures. Now she’s flunked a cultural litmus test.
Is Mike Pence Finished in MAGA-Land? It seems four years of toadying to Trump aren’t enough to overcome his “betrayal” on January 6.
Trump Lawyer Claiming Mass Election Fraud Is Under Investigation for Voter Fraud Lin Wood, the Trump-allied lawyer who unsuccessfully sued to overturn the election results, could have cast a fraudulent ballot in November.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Trying to Impeach the Biden Family Nobody drives the crazy train like Greene, who may represent where the MAGA movement is going.
capitol riot
Jan. 8, 2021
Trump Supporters Harass Lindsey Graham at Airport The president’s loyalists chanted “traitor” and heckled the Republican lawmaker on Friday.
Trump Did Worse in Counties Where He Held His Final Rallies: Report Trump underperformed compared to 2016 in 25 out of 30 counties where he held his final pandemic get-togethers.
‘Trump Has Given Us a Gift’: GOP Insiders See Victory in Potential Loss Even if he loses to Joe Biden, Republicans see a party with potential and a new president playing with a losing hand.
American Flag Collapses at Trump Rally in North Carolina It wasn’t the ideal symbol for a president who is 30 hours out from an election he is on track to lose.
The 10 Strangest Moments From Trump’s Trifecta of Pennsylvania Rallies Trump recalled how his COVID doctors “would grab my body” and expressed his desire for the open road, yearning to “drive the hell out of here.”
The #Resistance and the Retirement Community Inside the Villages in Florida, where election tensions are at an all-time high.
trump rally
Sept. 21, 2020
Ohio Lt. Governor Booed at Trump Rally for Promoting Trump 2020 Masks Rallygoers weren’t pleased with Jon Husted, a co-chair of the Ohio Trump campaign, when he suggested they wear masks supporting Trump’s reelection.
vision 2020
Sept. 16, 2020
MAGA Visibility Is Making Democrats Nervous Biden is relying less on his ground game and more on digital organizing, worrying some supporters who are seeing a preponderance of Trump lawn signs.
Trump to Return With His First Rally Since the Coronavirus Shutdown Next Friday Campaign officials reportedly hope the return of the rallies will distract Trump from destructive online behavior, citing zero past examples.
Coronavirus May Derail the Republican Convention After All Though Trump misses big rallies and has mocked Democrats’ plans for a virtual convention, it seems the GOP convention may be modified as well.
There’s Only One Way the ‘Enthusiasm Gap’ Matters “Enthusiasm” for a presidential general election candidate is usually exaggerated and often unimportant.
coronavirus
Apr. 20, 2020
Are Masks Just for Liberals? As the backlash to coronavirus precautions spreads, so, too, may resistance to the most visible sign of compliance — the mask.
vision 2020
Mar. 24, 2020
Trump’s Approval Ratings Are Up, But for How Long? Believe it or not, the public thinks he’s doing a good job on coronavirus. But as the economy worsens, voters’ warm feelings may prove ephemeral.
Legislators Urged to Declare CNN and Washington Post ‘Fake News’ In cultish act, Trump fan attacks elitist media for Trump’s cultlike following.
Trump Complains About Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize Days After War Crime Threat Other rally highlights included a claim that Dems would have “leaked” the Soleimani attack, and that M4A will cost “more money than we’ll ever make.”
william barr
Dec. 30, 2019
William Barr Embodies the Conservative Surrender to Trump In his taste for partisanship, authoritarianism, and a politicized conservative Christianity, the attorney general reflects many strains of Trumpism.
7 Unhinged Moments From Trump’s Dallas Rally Trump said that forces in Syria need to “scrap a little” and that Hurricane Harvey made Texas a “fortune,” though it killed over 100 people.
Trump Posts Animated Video of Himself Dancing, Hugging Flag It’s as if a pharmaceutical rep had remade the animated parts of A-ha’s “Take on Me” video.
donald trump
Sept. 4, 2019
What If Trump Supporters Love Chaos as Much as He Does? There’s new evidence that a significant number of Trump supporters love the man precisely for his destructive, nihilistic, and mendacious ways.
Struggling California Town Wants to Be ‘Sanctuary City’ for Guns It’s an effort that combines “sticking it to the liberals” with true economic desperation.
vision 2020
July 29, 2019
MAGA Is Still Big Business for Trump Campaign The fundraising strategy of turning political moments into opportunities to sell a T-shirt is hugely successful — and shows no signs of stopping.
vision 2020
Apr. 25, 2019
Why Republicans Might Not Mind Losing the White House in 2020 If Republicans hang onto the Senate in 2020 and have the power to obstruct, they might decide their future looks brighter without the 45th president.
QAnon Is Just the Standard Trump Train Now The feverish conspiracy theory hinged on the conclusion of the Mueller report. Now that’s only the starting point.
2020 presidential election
Feb. 26, 2019
What Should Democrats Do When Trump Attacks Them Over Reparations? While Democrats should dispute lies about what they mean by reparations, they should not retreat from the moral reckoning the country needs.
food politics
Feb. 1, 2019
Restaurateur Apologizes After Saying He’d Ban MAGA Hats J. Kenji López-Alt tweeted that anyone wearing the hat to his popular Wursthall would not be served — and then reversed the short-lived policy.
let’s get this bread
Nov. 5, 2018
love in the time of trump
Oct. 23, 2018
Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberley Guilfoyle Call Themselves … Donberly “Hashtag Donberly,” Guilfoyle declared on the couple’s romantic tour de MAGA.
Kanye West Loves the Male Energy of a MAGA Hat “When I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman.”
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