Republican Party

Asking whether Trump believed the 2020 election was stolen is the wrong question entirely

By Lindsay Beyerstein / March 11, 2022 /

Even if it had been stolen, fomenting insurrection is still illegal.

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Manchin and the GOP smear the poor to avoid helping them

By Noah Berlatsky / March 8, 2022 /

Cash payments lift kids out of poverty. To the rightwing, though, that can’t be. The poor are poor, because they deserve their poverty.

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A Democrat says the quiet part out loud. The Republicans are democracy’s ‘domestic enemies’

By John Stoehr / February 28, 2022 /

The time for hardball is now.

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Trump committed crimes when he took ‘top secret’ files. If prosecution is ‘politicizing the law,’ then he’s above it

By Lindsay Beyerstein / February 11, 2022 /

If any other government employee were caught with a trove of classified documents, they would face criminal investigation.

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Face it, impeachment doesn’t work. Trump proved Congress can’t check a criminal president

By Trent R. Nelson / February 2, 2022 /

Impeachment has never been helpful. It might be harmful, though.

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Federalism is the source of fascism, American-style

By John Stoehr / January 31, 2022 /

The tyranny of the minority is baked into the system.

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The Republican death drive: Refusing to sacrifice anything means sacrificing everything

By John Stoehr / January 26, 2022 /

Why are they killing themselves? Let’s turn to Sigmund Freud.

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It looks like the six Republican justices are ready to believe the lies told about affirmative action

By Mia Brett / January 26, 2022 /

Edward Blum’s corrupt faith in “colorblindness.”

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DeSantis is Trump’s mini-me

By Jason Sattler / January 25, 2022 /

The Republicans wish this cut-rate Don Jr. without giant veneers could be their future, but he’s just another wannabe.

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Fascist? Authoritarian? Sorta Russian? Whatever you call it, the Republicans don’t want legitimate authority, only power

By Rod Graham / January 19, 2022 /

People often confuse the terms power and authority.

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