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The more he tries to dominate, the more Trump ‘decomposes’
He can’t change a lifetime of habits.
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Trump needs people who might want to kill him to vote for him
So he’s preventing wider discussion of the effect of rightwing political violence on democratic politics, though doing so endangers his life.
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The cultivated naivete of the Washington press corps
We should talk about it.
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In America, you can fight evil, but you can’t fight stupidity
For Republicans who believe this, there’s probably no argument, no set of values, no set of facts that anyone can use to change their minds.
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Trump’s conviction forces him to tell lies even more conspicuous
Lots of people, maybe enough people, don’t want to be lied to.
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A rape survivor defends a rapist
The GOP is a pro-rape party now, writes Stephen Robinson.
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Britt's SOTU response contained several lies and one truth
Republican consultants are worried about the party's extremist abortion policies, writes Claire Bond Potter.
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The other ‘Great Replacement’
When the GOP embraced conspiracy theories, voter fraud fantasies, and class war, they replaced people who vote with an electorate that doesn't always – or can't always – vote, writes Claire Bond Potter.
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If he weren’t trying to be like Trump, DeSantis might be known as his most insightful critic
Maybe it takes a copycat to be so right about the frontrunner.
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Kevin McCarthy caves and caves, then he caves some more
Like all abusers, his conference keeps moving the standard on him.
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There's no such thing as a competent authoritarian
DeSantis wouldn't be better or worse than Trump.
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All they care about is defending traditional hierarchies
That's the rightwing complaint about everything, writes Rod Graham.