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Stuck in a Moment We Can’t Get Out Of
What the awful Republican debate teaches us about our interminable post-Reaganite interregnum
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Damon Linker
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The Agony of the Pro-Life Intellectual
Trump has put anti-abortion activists and their journalistic allies on the spot
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Damon Linker
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The Republican Flight into Fantasy
The GOP enjoys real political advantages from ceasing to confront the recalcitrance of reality
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Damon Linker
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The Romney Counterfactual
Would a different outcome in the election of 2012 have allowed us to avoid the Trumpification of the Republican Party?
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Damon Linker
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The Secret of Trump's Political Success
The former president's uniquely rabid and bombastic style of populism harkens back to an old American tradition of outlaw-hucksterism
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Damon Linker
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"I Know Things, Make Me Your Leader"
Are the best educated among us entitled to rule?
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Damon Linker
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America’s Asymmetric Politics
What political science teaches (and doesn’t teach) about Republicans and Democrats
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Damon Linker
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Hey Ho, Joe’s Gotta Go
Democrats are sleepwalking toward catastrophe with Biden
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Damon Linker
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The Foolishness of Invoking the Fourteenth Amendment to Stop Trump
You’ve heard some objections, but here are some more
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Damon Linker
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August 2023
The GOP’s Mysterious Eight Percent
What we can surmise about a new faction of Republican voters
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Damon Linker
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The Mind-Warping Milwaukee Debate
An audio post about the many Republican Parties on display Wednesday night
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Damon Linker
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Our Moment of Precarity
Cranky notes on the eve of the first Republican debate—with a few choice words for those seeking to invoke the 14th Amendment to get Trump excluded from…
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Damon Linker
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