Public anger at anti-vaxxers will likely overwhelm any advantage the GOP can gain from sabotaging the Biden administration.
David Atkins
Follow David on Twitter @DavidOAtkins. David Atkins is a Washington Monthly contributing writer, activist, and research professional living in Santa Barbara as well as an elected DNC Member from California. He is president of The Pollux Group, a qualitative research firm.
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No One Can Out-Organize the GOP Plot to End American Democracy
Republicans have a scheme in mind to tamper with American elections that goes far beyond voter suppression. Democrats have little time left to stop it.
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What Will It Take For Republicans To Get Vaccinated?
The biggest public health crisis in America is increasingly a partisan one: Democratic areas are largely getting vaccinated while Republican areas lag far behind. This is a particularly large problem as the Delta variant sweeps across the country, with the overwhelming majority of hospitalizations and 99% of deaths among the unvaccinated. In terms of persuading […]
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DeSantis Didn’t Win the Pandemic, After All
How the Florida governor took a premature victory lap—and how traditional media helped him.
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Demanding Climate Courage Is Good, Actually
Why Matt Yglesias is wrong to urge environmental activists to moderate.
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Trump Praises the Capitol Insurrection. Will the GOP Dare to Follow?
Trump is praising the mob and turning insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt into a martyr. This is not going to help Republicans in the midterm elections.
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Conservatives Have No Plan To Win the Culture War. They Intend to Rule Anyway.
Republicans would have to make changes to win the hearts and minds of the young. They have no intention of doing that. They intend to kill democracy, instead.
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Biden and Democrats Remain Popular As We Celebrate 4th of July
The Fox News Party has all sirens blazing about how Democrats and the left supposedly hate America because of “cancel culture,” “Critical Race Theory” and other right-wing bogeymen. They claim that liberals and Democrats don’t represent “real America” and that they represent a suffering silent majority of true patriots. So it’s more than fitting on […]
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The Senate and Supreme Court are Broken. Stop Trying to Save Them and Fix Them Instead.
Go beyond the hot takes and the emotional headlines about the Senate, the Supreme Court and American democracy, and you’ll see the contours of a deeper argument play out among analysts of good faith. On one side are the Institutionalists and on the other are the Realists. The Institutionalists see the way American government is […]
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If GOP Leaders Are Innocent, Why Sabotage the Insurrection Commission?
Republicans aren’t afraid of partisan grandstanding. They’re afraid of what a real investigation might uncover about their involvement in the January 6 assault.
