Never Trumpers' Next Move - The Atlantic - 0 views
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The core of the movement was made up of the public intellectuals, political operatives, and once and future political appointees whom the party depends on to run campaigns and to govern after successful ones. Eliot A. Cohen (now an Atlantic contributing writer), Bryan McGrath, and John Bellinger were among the ringleaders of the nearly unanimous resistance by the GOP’s foreign-policy establishment.
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Another strong constellation of Never Trumpism was made up of writers such as the venerable columnist George Will and Bill Kristol, a co-founder of The Weekly Standard.
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A small but vocal contingent within the Republican political-operative class also joined the effort.
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Donald Trump's Hatefulness Stirs Anger, Distorts Culture, Threatens GOP Agenda | Nation... - 0 views
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Ultimately, culture matters more than politics, and when the leader of the free world inflicts cultural damage this severe, he’s doing far more harm than a few judicial appointments can remedy. Conservatives used to understand this reality. In fact, we once made this argument with great clarity and power.
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It’s time for conservatives to remember the cultural power of the presidency. It’s time for us to understand that Trump’s persona is — certainly for now — more influential than his policies. Sure, seek lower tax rates and better judges. Sure we praise him when he’s right and critique mistakes. But we must lift our eyes from the strike zone and look at his overall impact. And that means not holding back from speaking the larger, more important truths.
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Krauthammer was right. Trump’s conduct yesterday was a “moral disgrace.” He exacerbated divisions that have existed since before the nation’s founding. He gave the vicious and vile alt-right it’s most important public victory. If he keeps it up, his “agenda” will be a footnote to history. Hate, division, and rage will be his true legacy, and that legacy will have far greater consequence than any policy he manages to pass.
GOP leaders play down revisions to health-care bill offered by House moderate - 0 views
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Republicans, under heavy pressure from the White House, are inching closer to passing a bill to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act, but possible revisions released Thursday aren't likely to clinch a deal. House Republican leaders are playing down the likelihood that changes to the GOP health-care measure proposed by moderate Rep.
A Theory of the Case - Talking Points Memo - 0 views
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I always thought that Trump’s election was quite unlikely because of a basic principle that had been validated in numerous previous elections: precisely the actions and positions which galvanized those levels of support on the hard right should have lost Trump more than enough in the middle of the electorate to rule out his election. But that didn’t happen. So why didn’t it happen?
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The key though is that once Trump secured the Republican nomination, once he became the Republican and Hillary Clinton the Democrat, all the forces of asymmetric partisan polarization kicked into place and ensured that essentially all self-identified Republicans and Republican-leaning independents fell into line and supported Trump. This two step process is the story of the 2016 election.
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At least through election day and to a surprising degree during his almost six months in office, Trump has been able to maintain historically high levels of support from self-identified Republicans – until recently in the high 80s and 90s percentages. That’s equal to or above what any Republican president in modern history has been able to garner. That fact, right there, is why Donald Trump won the election. The big structural answer is asymmetric partisan political polarization. It allowed a divisive factional leader in the GOP to become a figure who united the GOP
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The worst day of the worst week for the GOP - The Washington Post - 0 views
I helped create the GOP tax myth. Trump is wrong: Tax cuts don't equal growth. - The Wa... - 0 views
Andrew Sullivan: Let Him Have His Cake - 0 views
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all of this will surely affect who comes forward in the future. A woman violated by a Democrat will be likelier to go public — because it gets results. A woman violated by a Republican will fear she could be easily demonized as a liar, a conspirator, or a fraud, and understandably be reluctant to put herself through that. And so the accusations may well mount against Democrats and liberals and diminish somewhat among Republicans and conservatives.
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I see no reason why this ratchet shouldn’t continue, and why Democrats aren’t, in fact, unilaterally disarming themselves in what is a purely tribal war, where all objective moral or even epistemological standards become relative.
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The right’s key edge on this is, it seems to me, shamelessness, a quality currently reified in the Supreme Leader. Ted Cruz’s staggering ability to pull off a transparently double standard on Franken and Moore, within a few seconds, is a classic example of a shame-free partisan at work
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Either outcome in Alabama is a self-inflicted wound by Senate GOP - The Washington Post - 0 views
To save the GOP, Republicans have to lose - The Washington Post - 0 views
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This is the sad logic of Republican politics today: The only way that elected Republicans will abandon Trump is if they see it as in their self-interest. And the only way they will believe it is in their self-interest is to watch a considerable number of their fellow Republicans lose.
Roy Moore lost, but his brand of right-wing white populism still dominates the GOP - Th... - 0 views
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Exit polls showed that 91 percent of Republicans who voted in Alabama’s special election Tuesday supported the controversial former judge
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Like Wallace, Moore’s candidacy measured a hard right shift in the GOP. During his 1968 presidential campaign, Wallace attacked liberal elites, protesters and criminals, using thinly veiled racial rhetoric that called for “law and order” and an end to “forced busing.” This resonated with white voters across the country who were fearful of changes to the racial landscape in society, showing that in some ways, as Malcolm X said, the Mason-Dixon Line runs along the Canadian border.
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Moore built his political career on resistance and refusals that shocked many Americans but electrified segments of the electorate.
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Trump endorses incumbent Georgia GOP head for reelection | Fox News - 0 views
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"David Shafer did a phenomenal job as Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, recruiting and training a record number of volunteers," Trump said in a statement released Wednesday. "No one in Georgia fought harder for me than David! He NEVER gave up! He has my Complete and Total Endorsement for re-election."
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A contentious battle is brewing for the position after the Peach State faced a blue wave in the last election, voting for a Democrat president for the first time since 1992. At the same time, two Democrats beat out Republican incumbents for Georgia’s Senate seats.
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Shafer has remained closely tied to Trump, casting doubt on election transparency in Georgia and signing on as a plaintiff to the former president’s election fraud lawsuits in the state that challenged President Biden’s victory.
Opinion | Biden's news conference was pretty boring. That's just fine. - The Washington... - 0 views
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“I want to get things done,” Biden said, while stressing his belief in “the art of the possible” and the importance of timing. He made clear that despite recent events tugging him in different directions, including two mass shootings, the country’s infrastructure needs are up next. Having a plan, and carrying it out despite inevitable distractions, are two admirable achievements for any new administration.
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He seemed somewhat obsessed with his predecessor, invoking Donald Trump’s name several times without really being prompted.
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He wants to pass the House’s election reform bill to counteract GOP efforts in the states. He offered conflicting signals on whether to keep the filibuster, indicating a preference for the old-fashioned “talk until you drop” style of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” but also noting that he has 50 votes and the tiebreaker, and he doesn’t intend to let that go to waste.
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Georgia's new law suppressing the vote is a victory for Trump - CNNPolitics - 0 views
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Former President Donald Trump's campaign of lies about a stolen election just delivered a huge victory with a new Georgia law that could suppress the votes of many of the citizens who helped eject him from the White House.
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The move confirms the Peach State as the epicenter of the fight for American democracy that raged through Trump's presidency and during the insurrection he incited against the US Capitol -- and now threatens to taint future elections as Republicans in multiple states pursue new laws to limit voting.
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"What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It's sick. It's sick," President Joe Biden said at the first news conference of his presidency that afternoon. The Georgia law raises the question of whether election safeguards that prevented Trump's energetic efforts to rig the 2020 White House race after the fact in the state will stand firm in future elections amid false claims of electoral fraud by a president.
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Joe Manchin on his veto power over Biden agenda: 'It's not a good place to be' - CNNPol... - 0 views
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He's undecided on the nominee to head Health and Human Services. He's not sure if he'll back the No. 3 for the Justice Department, or the undersecretary of policy at the Pentagon.
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He says maintaining the 60 vote-requirement to overcome a filibuster is a "red line" for him. And he's made clear he'll block advancing an infrastructure package on a party-line vote if Democrats don't work with Republicans.
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In a 50-50 Senate, with most members voting the party-line, Sen. Joe Manchin stands mostly alone
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The real reason for the Dr. Seuss freakout (opinion) - CNN - 0 views
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As social mores and cultural preferences change, companies adjust. They change what they sell, adding or updating products and letting others go. This isn't news -- or at least it wasn't, until American right-wing media outlets became obsessed with so-called "cancel culture."
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Their latest focus is Dr. Seuss. The company that controls the Seuss catalog has decided to pull six of his dozens of books, the earliest of which was written in 1937, because they contain racist images of Asians and Africans. This seems sensible: Seuss' estate has an interest in protecting and promoting his legacy, and that's not going to happen by selling racist books to kids. That is not an attack on a beloved children's author. It is a recognition that a small portion of his older work is out of place today.
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You'd think nothing else was going on -- that half a million Americans weren't dead from a virus that has ravaged the nation; that a vaccine rollout wasn't in full force; that Democrats, in the face of rock-solid Republican opposition aren't close to getting Americans a huge relief package after a year of fumbling inaction.
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Georgia Senate approves sweeping election bill that would repeal no excuse absentee vot... - 0 views
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Georgia's state Senate on Monday passed an election bill that would repeal no-excuse absentee voting, among other sweeping changes in the critical swing state.
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The legislation, which has been championed by state Republican lawmakers, passed in 29-20. It now heads to the Georgia House of Representatives
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Under SB 241, voters would need to be 65 years old or older, absent from their precinct, observing a religious holiday, be required to provide constant care for someone with a physical disability, or required to work "for the protection of the health, life, or safety of the public during the entire time the polls are open," or be an overseas or military voter to qualify for an absentee ballot.
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A pair of misleading GOP attacks on Biden's infrastructure plan - The Washington Post - 0 views
Opinion | The hidden scam behind Tucker Carlson and the right's 'replacement' game - Th... - 0 views
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a key fact about this narrative: It gets an important truth exactly backward.
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The aging Whites this story targets will be relying on social insurance programs whose durability will heavily depend on immigrant taxpayers to sustain it, meaning they have a great deal to lose from decreased immigration.
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With or without immigration, the White share of the population will decline in the coming decades, census projections show. But if immigration is reduced or eliminated, America will grow older, with many fewer working-age adults available to support an exploding number of retirees.And that would not only slow overall economic growth, multiple projections have found, but also would increase pressure for cuts in the Social Security and Medicare benefits that provide a lifeline to the older Whites most drawn to the right’s anti-immigrant arguments.
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