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    How Never Trumpers Are Becoming Pro-Democracy RepublicansRepublicans who left the party over Trump are staying away over authoritarianism.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Neanderthals Were Smarter Than Anti-Mask RepublicansThe right is angry, but Biden was probably too kind to Greg Abbott.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Why Glenn Greenwald Says Tucker Carlson Is a True SocialistIt’s a (National Socialist German) workers’ party now.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    I Read Mike Pence’s Blueprint for Permanent Authoritarian RuleChange the voting rules so mobs aren’t needed again.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Zero COVID Risk Is the Wrong StandardThe fallacy of complete safety.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Mitt Romney’s Former Aide Thinks He’s Gone Soft on the PoorWe handle problems all the time without dealing with their root causes.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    How Trumpism Has Become a Cult of LosingWhy do Republicans still love a loser whose entire appeal was that he’s a “winner”?
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Republicans’ Long War to Roll Back the New Deal Is Finally OverA decades-long quest quietly perishes.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Future of Conservatism Is Flight 93 Elections ForeverMichael Anton sees the January 6 riot as the start of a new revolutionary spirit on the right.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Donald Trump Is Extremely Mad Prosecutors Will See His Tax ReturnsFormer president releases statement that’s angry even by his standards.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    An Ex-KGB Agent Says Trump Was a Russian Asset Since 1987. Does it Matter?Revisiting the Trump-Russia mystery in light of the newest revelation.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    How Biden’s Coronavirus Plan Will Fill the Holes in ObamacareThe Democratic strategy to expand coverage to millions.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Rush Limbaugh Taught Republicans to Love an Angry, Racist BullyLimbaugh and Trump were almost the same person.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Stop Treating Celebrities Like Politicians (and Vice Versa)Demanding entertainers have fine-tuned political antennae is madness.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Full Employment Is (Maybe) Possible AgainThe fiscal and monetary constraints that have shackled every Democratic president for more than half a century have broken.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republican Senators Are Asking the Courts to Take Care of Trump for ThemWe can’t impeach, but can you lock him up?
    By Jonathan Chait
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    New Evidence Shows Trump Used Riot to Pressure Congress to Steal ElectionTrump may not have planned the attack, but now we know he exploited it.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump’s Defense: What About Democratic Violence? (Answer: There Wasn’t Any.)His impeachment lawyers focus on whataboutism.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Firing Actors for Being Conservative Is Another Hollywood BlacklistWhat is the principled difference between barring communists and barring conservatives?
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump’s Lawyer Rambles Through Hilariously Incoherent Impeachment DefenseBruce Castor was sick the day they taught law in law school.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republicans: Trump Can’t Be Impeached Because He Can’t Be ImpeachedWe won’t vote to convict Trump because he’s going to be acquitted.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Describing a Slur Is Not the Same As Using ItThe New York Times declares a new standard.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Forces That Stopped Obama’s Recovery Will Not Stop Biden’sThe political atmosphere for stimulus is nothing like 2009.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Would Trump Have Won if Not for Impeachment? A Pro-Trump Journalist Thinks So.A conservative makes the case that impeachment didn’t backfire.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Kevin McCarthy ‘Forgot’ What QAnon IsThe new Know Nothings.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Remote Students Are ‘Just Having Different Learning Experiences’?The left learns to discount education to justify distance learning.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    QAnon Is Now Too Big to FailMarjorie Taylor Greene has too many fans to be thrown out of the GOP.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    There’s an Economic-Relief Deal That Lets Both Sides WinKeep the money flowing as long as the economy stays weak.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    McConnell: Trump Tricked Me Into Backing His CoupSweet, naïve Mitch McConnell never would have gone along if he knew.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    All the Lies They Told Us About the FilibusterWho designed this bizarre system? The answer is nobody.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    GOP Congresswoman Blamed Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space LaserMarjorie Taylor Greene is even nuttier than previously believed.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    McConnell: It Was Too Soon to Impeach Trump, Now It’s Too LateAnd there was a perfect moment, but they were on vacation.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Why Do Trump Fans Think Amazon Proved Mail Ballots Are Fraudulent?Tucker Carlson is so bad at populism.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Josh Hawley Believes Disliking Josh Hawley Is an Act of CensorshipThe senator’s new pose is an American Mandela.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republicans Have Decided Not to Rethink AnythingWhat if they held a GOP civil war and nobody came?
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Why Are Conservatives So Angry Biden Denounced White Supremacy?“We’re not racist, but we oppose denouncing racism.”
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Biden: ‘We Must End This Uncivil War.’ Here’s What It Would Look Like.Let’s briefly imagine what it would take to make Biden’s dream real.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump’s Farewell Address Is a Hypocritical Paean to Patriotism and Free SpeechNo president has done more damage to American ideals.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump Wanted to Erase Obama’s Legacy. He Failed.Almost every Obama achievement Trump tried to negate has remained.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump Is on the Verge of Losing EverythingA broken president leaves the White House twice impeached, on the brink of bankruptcy, and criminally exposed.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    A History of the Trump Era Through Stories About ToiletsTrump’s motive was right in front of us all along.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Republicans Oppose Impeachment Because It Makes Them Look Pro-RiotThe backward logic of Ben Shapiro.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Josh Hawley: I Stood Up to Capitol Mob by Endorsing Its DemandsThe Missouri senator explains his bravery.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump Made the Stupidest Possible Argument on Mike PenceMaybe don’t use the P-word on a guy who’s very famously religious?
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump Warns Impeachment Will Cause ‘Tremendous Danger’He doesn’t sound very contrite about the mob.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Trump Authoritarianism Denial Is Over NowJust weeks, ago, conservatives insisted Trump would concede if he lost the election.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Why Republicans Are Finally Trying to Wash Off the Trump StinkBetter way, way, way too late than never.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    The Pure Joy of Watching Trump Torment Mike PenceThe president’s sycophant gets the end he deserves.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Every Trump Loyalist Is Complicit in the President’s Incitement of SeditionAll his legal and political measures had been exhausted.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Here’s What Joe Biden Can Get Done With a Democratic SenateEconomic relief, judges, health care.
    By Jonathan Chait
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