As Democrats reflect on the sources of their electoral loss, recriminations are in full swing. Following in the footsteps of Mark Lilla’s 2016 op-ed that launched the genre, many have settled on blaming “wokeness.” In short, Democrats lost due to playing “identity politics”: attending to the particular concerns of anyone …
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Matt Gaetz will not be Donald Trump’s attorney general, but just because the president-elect isn’t getting his first pick doesn’t mean his priorities for the position have changed. On Thursday, Gaetz — who reportedly promised Trump he would “start cuttin’ fuckin’ heads” upon his confirmation — withdrew his name from …
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Embattled attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz appears to have paid over $10,000 in Venmo transactions to two women who later testified in the House Ethics Committee’s investigation of allegations that Gaetz had sex with an underage girl, according to records obtained by ABC News. The records, which were provided to …
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Had Donald Trump lost the 2024 election, several Republicans close to him, GOP lawmakers, and conservative megadonors would have been quick to blame his top billionaire surrogate: Elon Musk. In fact, in the weeks leading up to Election Day, a number of these sources — including one senior Trump campaign …
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Donald Trump has sworn he will exact retribution on his political rivals and critics — and that includes members of the press. The president-elect is already demanding that Republicans in Congress kill bipartisan legislation that would protect American journalists from surveillance by the federal government, and help shield the confidential …
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By reshaping the Supreme Court in his first term, President-elect Donald Trump effectively laid the groundwork for a second-term agenda aimed at dismantling the federal government. Now, with his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), we’re speeding toward a constitutional crisis, driven by Trump’s impulsive, tweet-like approach to governance. Trump …
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Close your eyes and make a list of the most important issues in the 2024 election. Maybe you thought of the cost of living, abortion, immigration, democracy, climate change, gun violence, the war in Gaza, the Supreme Court. If you’re like the vast majority of voters, the word you probably …
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Donald Trump’s incoming administration brass wants it made clear: The president-elect is not planning to build a brand new network of “camps” to house the myriad undocumented immigrants who Trump has vowed to round up in what he claims will be “the largest deportation” operation in the “history of our …
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Donald Trump has nominated a roster of highly controversial, and in some cases scandal-plagued, MAGA chaos agents to serve in his Cabinet — and is planning to force them through the U.S. Senate, a chamber in which the incoming president will enjoy a new conservative majority. However, when it comes …
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Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks aren’t exactly strangers to controversy, but the alleged past of Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth is already forcing the president elect’s transition team to do damage control. According to public records in 2017 Hegseth, a former Army service member and current Fox News host, was investigated …
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