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Republicans fall in line for Trump's Cabinet picks — but are they holding fire for a bigger battle?

The GOP remains cowed by Trump's MAGA army — for now

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Elon Musk can no longer hide Donald Trump's mess

Trump emerged from his Florida lair and may have finally woken up the resistance

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Donald Trump is not even bothering to hide the corruption this time

Last February, as Donald Trump was running for the Republican presidential nomination, he appeared at SneakerCon in Philadelphia to debut his latest...

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Donald Trump is ready to make Republicans touch the third rail

There are a thousand election hot takes and post-mortems floating around these days and I'm sure we'll soon come to some consensus about what drove...

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The (perceived) persecution of Kash Patel

Once upon a time, there was a Trump toadie who wrote a fatuous children's book about a good king being persecuted by an evil queen named Hillary...

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Trump's hatchet woman: Pam Bondi is plotting revenge on the Department of Justice

Many Americans were sorely disappointed this week when special prosecutor Jack Smith decided to drag up and withdraw the Jan. 6 indictment and the...

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Trump's brain drain: Fox News personalities tapped to become America's next top scientists, doctors

A couple of days after the election this year I wrote that I thought a lot of the anti-incumbent movement these past couple of years had to do with...

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Donald Trump just blew up any concept of a MAGA mandate

Contrary to his customary bragging that he won the election in an unprecedented landslide, President Donald Trump's percentage of the popular vote has...

22.11.2024 10

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What Donald Trump's revenge agenda is hiding

During the campaign, you may recall Donald Trump waxing on interminably during "the weave" about the time he watched Elon Musk's picture-perfect...

20.11.2024 20

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Trump preps a new red scare

I recently saw the movie "The Apprentice" about the relationship between Donald Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn, the notorious lawyer who was involved...

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RFK Jr.'s revenge: Trump's controversial health secretary pick is payback for COVID

Well, President-elect Donald Trump certainly is off to a roaring start, isn't he? Ensconced at his Mar-a-Lago beach club with the richest man in the...

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Blue state governors ready to fight back: Can they stop Trump's terror?

It's been a week since the election of Donald Trump and the shock is just now beginning to wear off. The ritual Democratic self-flagellation is...

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Donald Trump's win is a grim reminder: The COVID era hasn't ended

Now that we've had a chance to catch our breath a little bit and get through the grieving process over last Tuesday's election, the inevitable...

08.11.2024 10

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Donald Trump won the vibes. Now America's anti-democratic coalition seeks vengeance

Donald Trump has once more won the presidency. It's as shocking as it was the first time and even more terrifying. We should have seen this coming...

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"Women are not without electoral or political power": Samuel Alito's words come back to haunt Trump

Tomorrow is Election Day, the last day of voting in this tumultuous 2024 campaign. What a long, strange trip it's been. Just a year ago, Florida Gov....

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Trump campaign ignores election warning signs in favor of alternative facts

A couple of weeks ago the gang down in Mar-a-Lago was popping the champagne and gleefully drawing up plans to further destroy the White House gardens...

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Donald Trump's troubling outreach efforts: Post-election staffing plans signal a dark takeover

In front of an enormous crowd of 75,000 people last night, Kamala Harris gave what was billed as her "closing argument" on the Ellipse, the site of...

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Targeting the "enemies within": Trump's retribution plan begins with MAGA

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent out a statement this week drawing attention to the fact that...

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Learning to trust Trump's generals: There's a reason why his military men now call him fascist

Before Donald Trump was considered nothing more than a circus sideshow, some of us noted during the 2015 GOP presidential primaries that his rhetoric...

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Donald Trump's counterproductive final campaign push: Now is not the time to get cocky

The 2024 election is just a little over two weeks away now and most Democrats are down to their last nerve with worry. This is nothing new, of course....

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Donald Trump's town hall with Latino voters shows his campaign is clueless

We have officially entered the manic stage of the presidential election in which the candidates are suddenly everywhere. At least Kamala Harris is...

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The MAGA "weave": Donald Trump picks up steam as he dissembles on stage

Is Donald Trump losing it for real this time? That's a question being asked and answered all over social media and cable news this week in the wake of...

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Donald Trump's campaign stops give away the game

In every losing campaign's postmortem, the analysts insist that the candidate should have gone where he or she did not. There were...

11.10.2024 20

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Palling around with Putin: Trump's mind-boggling outreach to the Russian dictator under scrutiny

Exactly eight years ago this week, the Obama administration formally accused the Russian government of hacking the Democratic National...

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Republicans are drowning in Donald Trump's lies

I happened to spend some time with a highly intelligent 17-year-old over the weekend who's taking AP Government and is keenly interested in the...

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Liz Cheney and Democrats' big tent strategy: Why courting Republicans works for Kamala Harris

I once wrote that Liz Cheney was the most dangerous woman in America. I thought she could easily be the nominee in 2024 and believed that she'd be...

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Tim Walz wins the nice guy debate

Writing about a debate on the morning after always feels more like theater criticism than political analysis. How did they look, how did they sound,...

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Tim Walz can call out JD Vance's true game plan

I don't normally pay too much attention to the vice presidential debate during a presidential election campaign because they tend not to matter all...

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Republicans are following JD Vance off the gender gap cliff

As a politician, Donald Trump has always exhibited a very creepy form of paternalism. He often says things like "No one has done as much for the...

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Republicans may need to ditch Donald Trump to save MAGA

Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans got a little bit of good news over the weekend with some highly respected polls coming in showing that Kamala...

23.09.2024 40

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Republicans are using the ruse of "election integrity" to pull of another round of Big Lie chicanery

All of the American media was atwitter on Thursday afternoon from rumors that CNN was going to release a bombshell report about North Carolina Lt....

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Trump's campaign can't get in the way of his new grift

There's been a lot going on this week so you may have missed Donald Trump introducing his latest business venture on Monday. You read that right. He...

18.09.2024 8

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Donald Trump's dead cat strategy puts the pressure on JD Vance

If you feel as if American politics have taken yet another deep dive into the Trump show maelstrom, you aren't alone. This past week has been a...

16.09.2024 9

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Kamala Harris' big tent strategy — and its success — has thrown Trump for a loop

Despite the ongoing excessive whining in the press about Kamala Harris not doing interviews and MAGA's laughable insistence that Trump won the...

13.09.2024 7

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The debate was a total debacle for Donald Trump

According to the New York Times/Siena poll released over the weekend, about 28% of people said they needed to learn more about Vice President Kamala...

11.09.2024 10

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Vengeance is Trump's only true campaign proposal

After Donald Trump once again demonstrated his monumental ignorance with his answer to a question about child care at the New York Economic Club...

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Donald Trump's incoherence makes the media's double standard hard to hide

It seems like only yesterday that the elite media were extremely concerned that President Joe Biden had mistakenly referred to the president of Egypt...

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Why Donald Trump thinks he doesn't have to campaign against Kamala Harris

One of the articles of faith about the 2020 election among the MAGA crowd is that Joe Biden couldn't possibly have won the election because he...

04.09.2024 10

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The media's double standard comes for Kamala Harris — and misses

Ah, the lazy, crazy days of August during a presidential election year are upon us. That's traditionally when the political press decides that the...

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Donald Trump likes to pretend he is still president — but his act caught up with him at Arlington

Over the weekend Donald Trump whined that the Harris campaign was treating him like the incumbent and it's totally not fair: The fact is that...

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GOP protection racket crumbles: Republicans now have cover to come out as anti-Trump

Someone once asked me who I thought would be the Democratic equivalent of Donald Trump would be. My answer: Kanye West. He's world-famous, extremely...

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The DNC did not unify Democrats. Donald Trump did that long before

Kamala Harris looks and sounds like a president — so much so that you almost forget that if she wins she will be the first woman to hold the office....

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The DNC's one clear goal: Run up the gender gap

I've told the story before, but it bears repeating in the context of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. I attended the Democrats' convention in...

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Donald Trump is crashing out ahead of schedule

All the attention is going to be on the Democratic Convention in Chicago this week but it's pretty clear that for the next few weeks, the center of...

19.08.2024 20

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Donald Trump isn't fun anymore: How Kamala Harris stole the show — and extinguished his flame

Donald Trump is in a bad way. His campaign has completely lost its bearings with the withdrawal of Joe Biden and the ecstatic reception of the Kamala...

09.08.2024 30

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Trump's attempted rebrand of Project 2025 is failing

The Trump campaign issued a very weird statement yesterday disavowing the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 — again. As campaign managers Susie...

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Trump squanders his own momentum

After having spent most of the last two years playing golf and dining with his paying fans at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump picked up the...

29.07.2024 7

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An emerging "autocratic international order": Trump has plans for domestic authoritarianism

When Donald Trump began his third run for president back in 2022, he said very explicitly that his campaign was organized around vengeance for his...

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Joe Biden's brilliant exit: Democrats get a boost, Republicans left bewildered

July 21, 2024, was one of those "where were you when you heard" days that people will remember for a long time to come. I was online that early Sunday...

22.07.2024 30

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"We're never gonna let that happen again": Trump's RNC speech confirms plans for a Big Lie 2.0

I said a couple of weeks ago that if President Biden decided to withdraw from the race it would be awesome if he would do it on the night Donald...

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