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What does ‘conservative’ even mean anymore?
Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize today’s GOP. Or would he?
Ronald Reagan
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Um, is Trump a scapegoat?
GOP elites want to believe voters rejected him, not the GOP.
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Here’s everything the Democrats have done and why these midterms should be a cakewalk
No need for smoke and mirrors. It’s an overflow of facts.
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Biden’s first midterm in 2022 is just like Reagan’s in 1982
Set aside the trees to look at the forest.
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Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, is dead
The former Soviet premier became a sort of hero in the west. But he became that hero precisely because he was a massive failure.
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American democracy is fragile. Will white liberals step up?
Given our history, the odds aren’t good.
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Most pundits believe history repeats itself. It doesn’t
When it comes to the midterms, keep your own counsel.
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Orrin Hatch, champion of revanchist values and father of judicial extremism, is dead
For all his work in making the nation worse, Donald Trump presented Hatch with the Presidential Medal of Freedom that year.
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What is 'the good life' in the United States and what can we do as a republic to make it real?
Reviving a "philosophical tendency."
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Federalism is the source of fascism, American-style
The tyranny of the minority is baked into the system.
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Anti-tax is anti-democracy
Joe Manchin has one foot in two worlds.
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His life made the world worse
Colin Powell, 1937-2021.