How a small group of reactionaries hijacked the Republican Party—decades before the 2016 election.
Paul Weyrich
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The GOP’s War Against Voting Rights
How Trump and Congressional Republicans are trying to make it harder to vote.
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Exiled by Main Street: Will Republican Voter Self-Suppression Manifest Itself in 2020?
Unlike his affair with Stormy Daniels, he may not get lucky again. A year ago, Bernard L. Fraga, Brian Schaffner, Jesse Rhodes and Sean McElwee observed in the Washington Post that “[W]hat’s clear is that the jump in white turnout in key swing states and drop in black turnout [in the 2016 presidential election] may […]
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Trump and the Triumph of Fake News
It’s hard to dispute one word of Brian Stelter’s February 4 condemnation of the GOP’s memo-based malevolence–and the right-wing media’s key role in fueling the foolishness of Donald Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA): Geraldo Rivera is also unquestionably correct: had Fox News and Hannity been a prominent cultural/political force in the early 1970s, Richard […]
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Will Democrats Simply Ignore an Ossoff Loss?
Two years ago, after the unusual outcome of the Kentucky gubernatorial election (where Democratic candidate Jack Conway, who had been leading in the polls against Republican contender Matt Bevin, lost to Bevin by nine points), I observed that the Kentucky Democratic Party should at least try to verify the outcome of the election via a […]
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“The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them”
About thirty years ago, the Long Island Regional Poison Control Center ran a semi-famous ad campaign encouraging children not to treat prescription medicine as candy. The spot featured blue pills singing the following: This is serious! We could make you delirious! You should have a healthy fear of us– Too much of us is dangerous! […]
