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The only thing Mike Johnson is getting out of his relationship with Trump is humiliation
The longer this goes on, the better the Democrats look.
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When people tell you that Biden is doing to Trump what Putin did to Navalny, they are telling you they don't believe in anything
A democracy can’t afford to empower such cynicism.
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Kellyanne Conway wants us to believe GOP has a deep bench
In discussing possible VP picks for Trump, she spins the fiction that the party has people ready for the national stage, writes Claire Bond Potter.
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New York’s special shows the cost to GOP of saying the quiet part out loud about the border
The winner, a Democrat, said he cared about the problem. Voters believed him. More importantly, they didn’t believe the Republican.
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Do we really need Jon Stewart’s political nihilism?
That joke isn’t funny anymore, writes Stephen Robinson.
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Critics calling on Biden to drop out are not thinking it through
They say democracy is too important to take a chance on an old man. In fact, it's too important to take a chance on someone else.
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It’s crystal clear: SCOTUS is not going to disqualify Trump
For the Roberts Court, values, politics and consequences count for much more than text, history and precedent, writes Eric Segall.
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To speak on your terms, free yourself from the press corps
What can you say about things that are morally distinct in a news media world in which moral distinctions don’t exist?
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Biden’s righteous anger with an anti-moral press corps
The special counsel’s report didn’t have enough to indict him, only smear him, and reporters are going along with it.
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Special counsel finds a way to turn Biden’s willingness to cooperate into a smear
The DC press corps is taking the emotionally charged impressions of a two-time Trump appointee at face value, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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All of a sudden, Biden is the border hawk, not Trump
Trump got outplayed and doesn’t seem to know it.
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Biden connected the dots – Trump’s Big Lie is new Lost Cause
He opened space to discuss the role of intimidation and threats of violence in Trump’s continued dominance of the Republican Party.