It was clear Donald Trump and his allies would ramp up their crackdown against any and all opposition in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk — and this week, the president’s second administration unleashed its most authoritarian blitz yet. The Trump administration got late-night host Jimmy …
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Jen Psaki is launching a new MSNBC show Tuesday night, at a dark time: four-and-a-half months into Donald Trump’s second presidency. Some of the headlines leading up to the premiere of The Briefing have been about Joe Biden’s decline — and whether Psaki, who served as Biden’s White House press …
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Donald Trump’s return to the White House has been marked by a campaign of autocratic, verging on fascist action to match the brazen rhetoric from his campaign. The president has sought to strip the citizenship of children born in this country by fiat, and declared the sexual identities of millions …
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Donald Trump and his incoming administration officials think Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are suckers. They’re not shy about saying it. Within the past month, Biden, Harris, and the current administration have repeatedly vowed an orderly, peaceful, fully cooperative transfer of power between Biden and Trump — a twice-impeached former …
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Donald Trump will be president again. Far more dispiriting than what the election says about Trump is what his win says about the American body politic. We are a house divided on a fault line of decency. Trump’s venality, his bigotry and racism, his fondness for dictators, and his disregard …
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Early in the 2016 campaign, months before Donald Trump won his first presidential nomination, I wrote my friend Philip Roth an email about his novel, The Plot Against America, which had appeared twelve years earlier. The book was Roth’s fanciful but chilling fiction about a fascist takeover of the presidency …
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D onald Trump was slamming his fist on the Resolute Desk and, once again, calling for blood. It was the second year of his presidency, and Trump was seething about gang members and drug lords. He wanted to see their bodies piled up in the streets. Specifically, he sought a …
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As Donald Trump recovers from an assassination attempt and Republicans head to Milwaukee for his coronation this week, the GOP elite has rallied around a new messaging strategy: emotionally blackmailing Democratic politicians, journalists, Hollywood celebs, and numerous other Trump critics into shutting up about the former president’s openly authoritarian vows …
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Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, is talking up revolution and the prospect of “bloodshed” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision placing the president outside the reach of criminal law. The Heritage Foundation is the once-staid think tank that, since Roberts’ arrival in 2021, has leaned …
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America is in a rough place right now — perhaps you’ve heard. Right vs. left, blue vs. red, blind faith vs. biased truth. What was once an ideological divide now seems like an unbridgeable chasm. No one can seem to agree on simple concepts like, say, “facts” or “reality.” Historians …
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