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"Trump has no real mandate for what he is planning": The push for Christian nationalism may backfire

Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush reminds us why Trump "reached record levels of unpopularity when he last served"

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Reversing the "weaponization of Christianity": How "religous freedom" can be used to fight Trumpism

Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush on how some churches "created a permission structure for cruelty on a massive scale"

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Democrats face America's new self-evident truths

In a world where Joe Rogan and Donald Trump rule, how should Democrats plan for the next political battle?

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Democrats' grief is Donald Trump's best tool of distraction

While the recriminations continue, Trump carries on undeterred

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When facts no longer matter: 3 key steps to return to civil dialogue

Dr. Kurt Gray on how to "find a healthy consensus again" in the Age of Trump

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America's addicted to the “destruction narrative”

Dr. Kurt Gray on how many Americans manage negative feelings and polarization

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Where is the fierce urgency of now?

Why are so many behaving like the battle to defeat Trumpism is lost before he has even taken office?

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Democrats need to take the working class seriously and literally

The Democrats, mainstream news media and other political watchers are continuing with their postmortems of the 2024 election. Many remain confused by...

04.12.2024 4

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Why Democrats seem so disconnected from what voters want

Nearly one month later, the Democratic Party and the pundits and other politics experts are continuing to study the wreckage of the 2024 election....

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Picking through the debris of the 2024 election, Democrats are left soul searching

Democrats and the mainstream news media are still sorting through the wreckage of the 2024 election, seeking some insight into why and how Donald...

27.11.2024 10

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A "roadmap" for "hope, resistance and reconstruction" in a second Trump presidency

Donald Trump’s rise to power as an elected authoritarian was not preordained or an act of destiny. Since at least 2016, there have been multiple...

26.11.2024 10

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Before Donald Trump destroys it, Democrats must "re-envision what democracy needs to be"

Donald Trump is quickly consolidating and expanding his power. Trump has promised to be a dictator on “day one” of his administration. Trump has...

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The path forward for progressives is a return to PR basics: Put personality before policy

Donald Trump’s plans to remake American society is not incremental or gradual. Trump, his advisor and agents are attempting to impose a...

21.11.2024 10

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How Democrats can move past "low-dominance messaging"

Donald Trump is moving very quickly with his “shock and awe” plans to rule as an autocrat who views multiracial pluralistic democracy and its...

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The epic challenge of a second Trump era: providing safe harbor for MAGA regrets

President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA regime have promised revenge and retribution against a range of targeted groups such as the Democrats,...

18.11.2024 30

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The ultimate answer to why Donald Trump won: White Christians

The Democratic Party, the mainstream news media, and the political class are conducting a political autopsy of the 2024 Election and how Trump and the...

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Trump's win was "an epic failure of every major institution" — especially the media

Donald Trump and his MAGA movement steamrolled Kamala Harris and the Democrats. Although the final vote totals will be fairly close, Trump won all...

14.11.2024 30

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Fake nostalgia and skillful propaganda got us here — but there's hope on the other side

The American people have made a clear choice: They elected Donald Trump as the next president, and have given control of the U.S. Senate, and probably...

13.11.2024 40

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Readjusting to Trump's America

In both my head and my heart, I knew that Donald Trump and MAGA were going to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats. For the last few...

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The illusion of Donald Trump and the fourth founding of America

America will now need a fourth founding to defend and renew its democracy

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MAGA's last stand: A duel between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in diametrically opposite Americas

The 2024 presidential election is one of the most important — if not the most important — in the country’s history. Today the American people...

05.11.2024 6

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Dr. John Gartner on how Harris hit Trump's weak spot: He "is now using a very limited vocabulary"

On Tuesday, Kamala Harris delivered a speech from the Ellipse in Washington, DC. This is the same location where Donald Trump incited his MAGA...

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Don't laugh off Donald Trump's blue state strategy

When Donald Trump announced that he would hold late-stage rallies in the blue states such as New York and California the reactions by the mainstream...

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Why Donald Trump is obsessed with Kamala Harris' IQ

Donald Trump is continuing to dig way down into his nasty bucket of racism and hate, grab the mess in his hands, and then smear it all over himself....

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Trump on Joe Rogan's podcast leaves Kamala Harris with a winning opportunity

America’s social order has changed. There is a growing amount of economic and financial precarity, and previously marginalized groups are no longer...

29.10.2024 10

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"They’re being called to save the country": Jackson Katz on how MAGA masculinity sells men purpose

America’s gender troubles helped to spawn the Age of Trump and the democracy crisis we currently face. Fascism is coded as a masculine political...

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Why "playing it safe" could lead to disaster for Kamala Harris and the Democrats

When Joe Biden made the historic decision in July to step aside as the Democratic Party's 2024 nominee, Donald Trump was clearly taken off guard....

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"Call it his Outreach to Incels Tour": How Kamala Harris can disarm Trump and win back momentum

When President Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris in July she immediately changed the momentum of the 2024 election and energized...

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"Thirst for the spectacle of Trump’s cruelty": Exploring MAGA's unbreakable bond

Donald Trump is a very successful hate merchant. What Trump is selling his MAGA political cultists — the racism, bigotry, nativism, xenophobia,...

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"Femiphobia" motivates MAGA males: Psychologist Stephen Ducat on the gendered tribalism of Trumpism

At this point, with fewer than three weeks until Election Day, warning the American people that the election is an existential matter for the future...

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The end of Trump's impunity: Kamala Harris goes directly after his strongest selling point

Donald Trump and his MAGA movement are currently at the epicenter of political violence in the United States. Trump has created a type of permission...

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“Brain flaws”: Understanding MAGA as an epidemic disease

The American people are being smothered by public opinion polls. Every day there seems to be some new poll expected to give precious insight into the...

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The age factor election: "A vote for Trump could easily be a vote for a President Vance"

With less than a month to go until Election Day, the American people and the world will soon find out if the epic that is the Age of Trump is about to...

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"Traumatized by Trumpism": The toll of outrage fatigue on MAGA

Nothing about this is normal. On Saturday, Donald Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, and held a rally at the same location where he survived...

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Never Trump's moment: Anti-MAGA Republicans could swing the election at the "margins"

Election Day is less than one month away. Experts have described the 2024 election as one of the closest in modern American history. The future of...

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Trump's violent fantasies: Experts warn of "a terror that blinds us to what’s coming next"

Donald Trump has repeatedly shown himself to be a violent and dangerous man. This is not a minor character flaw or a bad habit that only emerges once...

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Trump's MAGA emails are increasingly erratic

The presidential election is next month. Donald Trump is feeling the pressure. He planned on running against President Biden and not Kamala Harris....

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Kamala Harris challenges Donald Trump's masculinity

When President Joe Biden passed the torch to Kamala Harris, she almost immediately went on the attack against Donald Trump. This represented a radical...

04.10.2024 30

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"The map looks easier for her": Ipsos pollsters find "Harris is more effective" on voters' top issue

The stakes of the 2024 election are existential for the future of American democracy. On one side is Donald Trump, a man who has demonstrated contempt...

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"Pride paradox": Sociologist Arlie Hochschild on Trump's manipulation of white working class voters

With slightly more than a month until Election Day, the polls show that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are basically tied. Political scientists,...

30.09.2024 7

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Donald Trump's rebranding of American diversity is gaining traction

The color line runs straight through every aspect of American society. It's a constant that remains despite the fiction of American exceptionalism and...

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The mission creep of hate: Trump's dehumanization targets beyond immigrants

Donald Trump and his surrogates are continuing to channel and amplify Nazism and Adolf Hitler. This is not random or happenstance. It is part of a...

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Trump's transformation into a religious totem turns Christian nationalism toxic

Public opinion polls show that 47 percent of registered voters support Donald Trump in the 2024 election. This appears to be both Trump’s basement...

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The danger of a Trump campaign on a losing trajectory

Gore Vidal was correct when he damningly observed that the American people do not have a memory of the last week. “We are the United States of...

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How Donald Trump turns a profit on political violence

Donald Trump, like the other autocrats, dictators, and tyrants he admires, will not let a crisis go to waste. Trump takes every opportunity to advance...

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Kamala Harris' rise triggered a primordial rage in Donald Trump. Expect him to ramp up the racism

Vice President Kamala Harris’s performance during her first (and now only) debate against Donald Trump last Tuesday was one of the most dominant in...

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Kamala Harris has neutralized Donald Trump's "high-dominance" advantage

Vice President Kamala Harris trounced Donald Trump during their presidential debate last week. For more than 90 minutes Trump had almost no...

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Fascism expert Jason Stanley on how "joy" can win: "We need to counter that atmosphere of fear"

The Age of Trump is accidental. Project 2025, Trump’s own Agenda 47, and the other plans to make him a dictator on “day one” of his presidency...

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The problem with pinning Donald Trump down: Americans' attention spans are too short

The Age of Trump has assaulted and undermined America’s governing institutions and the rule of law, civil society, and shared sense of normalcy....

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Donald Trump can't get any attack to stick to Kamala Harris

Donald Trump is attacking Kamala Harris like it is the 1950s. He and his mouthpieces — most notably his vice-presidential running mate, Ohio Sen....

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