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Why Republicans Want to Keep Punishing Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger The pair are already pariahs, and ignoring Pelosi’s January 6 panel would be easier. But Republicans still want payback, and leverage over McCarthy.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
July 24, 2021
Democrats Can’t Out-Organize a Gerrymander — or Outflank Joe Manchin Voting-rights advocates shouldn’t expect Biden to do the impossible in Congress, while Biden should understand there are laws you cannot out-organize.
By Ed Kilgore
Republicans Won’t Help Democrats Raise Debt Limit McConnell is again being a hypocrite by treating an essential debt-limit increase as a problem for Democrats. But it’s what he needs for his message.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate Dems Start Loading a $3.5 Trillion Bazooka to Pass Biden’s Agenda A new agreement would dodge a Republican filibuster to expand the welfare state, but many issues are yet to be resolved.
By Ed Kilgore
covid-19 vaccines
July 13, 2021
The Willfully Unvaccinated Are the Newest Republican Martyrs Like white folks and Christians, the unvaccinated are being encouraged to view themselves as objects of discrimination requiring political protection.
By Ed Kilgore
New Texas Abortion Law Enlists Activists to Harass Providers in Court In a twist on other pre-viability abortion bans, Texas leaves enforcement to any schmo with evidence of an “illegal” procedure.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
July 8, 2021
Kamala Harris Unveils Another Fallback Strategy for Voting Rights Getting voters to the polls despite hostile state laws is a valuable Plan B for voting rights, not a mere a gesture after failure in Congress.
By Ed Kilgore
White Evangelicals Now Outnumbered by Mainline Protestants in U.S. Conservative Evangelical triumphalism in religion, culture, and politics is no longer justified by the trends in American life.
By Ed Kilgore
conservatism
July 6, 2021
It’s Tough to Prove You’re a ‘True Conservative’ in the Trump Era Many of the old principles of hard-core conservatism are still obligatory for Republicans. And now they have to demonstrate loyalty to Trump, too.
By Ed Kilgore
critical race theory
June 30, 2021
By Zak Cheney-Rice
infrastructure
June 24, 2021
‘We Have a Deal’: Biden Endorses Senators’ Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan The deal can only hang together if Democrats, including Joe Manchin, can unite around a reconciliation bill to enact the rest of Biden’s agenda.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
Welcome to Georgia, Where Election ‘Integrity’ Goes to Die Brad Raffensperger’s incomprehensible position in the party of Trump.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
donald trump
June 16, 2021
Could Trump Become Speaker of the House? This bizarre scenario is technically possible, but fantasies about Trump returning to the White House via the Speakership are extremely far-fetched.
By Ed Kilgore
2021 california recall election
June 11, 2021
Why Recall Fever Is Sweeping California Easy rules, intense reaction to COVID-19 restrictions, and a Republican Party with nothing better to do have all fueled a wave of recall drives.
By Ed Kilgore
Is Trump Going to Fade Like Sarah Palin? The good news is that he could lose his audience. The bad news is that it would take someone even more terrifying to come along.
By Ed Kilgore
bipartisanship
June 4, 2021
Biden’s Extended Dance With Republicans May Be What the Public Wants Americans want politicians to try to cut deals, and then implement their party’s agenda as ruthlessly as possible. That could be Biden’s plan.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
June 3, 2021
Manchin Probably Welcomes Biden’s Criticism on Voting Rights Biden promised action on voting rights and called out Senate centrists for standing in the way, but the truth is he has little leverage over them.
By Ed Kilgore
Is Presidential Popularity Now All About Partisanship? Biden’s job-approval ratings are even steadier than Trump’s, suggesting a president’s party may be more important than his actions. It’s a scary idea.
By Ed Kilgore
The Future Could Actually Be Bright for Republicans The GOP comeback will likely begin with retaking the House in 2022, then probably the Senate, and maybe the presidency.
By Ed Kilgore
Georgia Republicans See Disastrous Election Cycle As Something to Brag About In their deluded minds, they believe losing Georgia to Biden and the Senate to Democrats were victories stolen by their own secretary of state.
By Ed Kilgore
redistricting
May 4, 2021
State-Legislative Redistricting Is a Big Deal, Too While most people focus on congressional redistricting, the state-legislative-redistricting process is where Republicans may perpetuate their power.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Delegitimization of Democracy Isn’t Wearing Off It remains unclear when — or if — Republicans will begin to accept electoral defeat again.
By Ed Kilgore
2021 elections
Apr. 30, 2021
Virginia GOP’s Gubernatorial Contest Is a Trumpian Mess An “unassembled” convention has spurred threats of a lawsuit from MAGA candidate Amanda Chase, who could also doom the whole ticket.
By Ed Kilgore
voting by mail
Apr. 30, 2021
Making Voting More Convenient May Help Democrats After All Census data shows that Democratic-leaning younger voters benefited from more flexible voting arrangements in 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
Biden’s Workmanlike Love Song to the Middle Class His speech was well crafted to sell his priorities to voters in and just beyond the Democratic Party.
By Ed Kilgore
Republicans Can’t Decide Which ‘Uncle Joe’ to Attack Is the president a senile puppet? Or a ruthless leftist? While Republicans try to decide, Biden is eating their lunch.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Are Shooting for the Moon in 2021, and That’s Okay The usual choice between getting things done and holding on to power is no choice at all for Democrats right now.
By Ed Kilgore
gavin newsom recall
Apr. 26, 2021
It’s Official: Newsom Will Face Recall Election The recall election likely won’t be held until November, and the Republican operatives who made it happen face long odds.
By Ed Kilgore
Caitlyn Jenner Is Running for Governor of California Jenner will need to prove she is a celebrity outsider like Schwarzenegger, not a novelty candidate. And Gavin Newsom may be unbeatable anyway.
By Ed Kilgore
The Fateful Question of How Latinos Vote Going Forward Trump and his party over-performed with Latino voters in 2020. It’s important for both parties to figure whether that was a fluke or a trend.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Apr. 22, 2021
The John Lewis Voting Rights Act Picks Up Steam With a broader bill stalled, the Congressional Black Caucus pushes Democrats to restore the original Voting Rights Act.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Apr. 21, 2021
After the Voting Wars, Who’s Likely to Turn Out in 2022? The net impact of laws to suppress or expand voting rights is unclear, and will compete with many factors affecting the level and shape of turnout.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Apr. 17, 2021
Jim Crow’s Ominous Lessons on Voter Suppression Republicans bristle at talk of Jim Crow 2.0, but there are clear echoes of the era of Black disenfranchisement in their drive for voting restrictions.
By Ed Kilgore
georgia election law
Apr. 16, 2021
Can Suppressing Votes Save Brian Kemp? Kemp is using Georgia’s new election law to heal a breach with Trump-loving conservatives but so far has drawn only a gadfly primary opponent.
By Ed Kilgore
McConnell Howls About Court-packing Just As Pelosi Nixes It It’s a good example of how smears of the opposing party can run abruptly into countervailing reality.
By Ed Kilgore
Independents Aren’t Nonpartisan, They’re Just Disengaged The increasing number of self-identified independents feeds partisan polarization by turning the parties over to ideologues and “outsiders.”
By Ed Kilgore
gavin newsom recall
Apr. 14, 2021
Struggling California Republicans Gamble on Newsom Recall These are grim times for the GOP in the Golden State. So they are calculating that a long-shot recall drive may be their best best for a win.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump and Rubio, Best of Frenemies Rubio seems as tormented as ever by the man who rolled over him five years ago.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Apr. 9, 2021
What Is the Republican Party’s Position on Voting Rights? The implicit GOP position is to defer to states and localities — so far as their decisions help Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
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.
By Ed Kilgore
budget reconciliation
Apr. 5, 2021
Democrats Get One More Big Bill This Year That Cannot Be Filibustered The Senate Parliamentarian agrees with Schumer’s multiple-reconciliation-bill theory, which could make Republican obstruction irrelevant.
By Ed Kilgore
gavin newsom
Mar. 31, 2021
Poll Shows Gavin Newsom Is Well-Positioned for Recall In a deep-blue state, Republicans alone cannot beat the California governor.
By Ed Kilgore
republicans
Mar. 31, 2021
The Rotten Core of Republican Appeals to the Working Class Republicans are embracing the perilous tradition of producerism, offering working-class voters a mix of nativism, protectionism, and culture war.
By Ed Kilgore
Georgia Republicans Take Revenge on Voting Rights After major Democratic wins, the embattled GOP passes a harsh law to claw back power.
By Ed Kilgore
recall election
Mar. 24, 2021
Might Tom Steyer Run to Replace Gavin Newsom in a Recall Election? The billionaire is polling the race, but pressure for California Democrats to stay out remains strong.
By Ed Kilgore
The House Brings Back the Equal Rights Amendment This time, the effort to revive the ERA will get a vote in the Senate, where Republicans would suffer the consequences for killing it.
By Ed Kilgore
The Biden Agenda Could Reverse the Democrats’ Losses With Working-Class Voters Voters say Biden’s stimulus helps workers, not the wealthy. If they start saying the same about Biden himself, the GOP could be in trouble.
By Eric Levitz
voting rights
Mar. 12, 2021
Churchy Republicans Attack ‘Souls to the Polls’ A crackdown on Sunday voting is one of the more hypocritical of the voting-suppression methods pursued by Georgia’s Christian right.
By Ed Kilgore
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