Recognizing racism shouldn’t require great political courage.
Republicans
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The Mind of a Trump Voter
To understand the candidate you have to understand his supporters’ obsession with political correctness.
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What Binds Ryan’s Post-Truth Agenda to Trump’s Post-Policy Politics: Racism
Personally, I’ve never found the dichotomy of establishment vs insurgency to be a very helpful way of understanding what is going on in the Republican Party right now. Another way of looking at the tension is to frame it as a difference between being post-truth and post-policy. Prior to 2008, David Roberts described the post-truth […]
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Tom Friedman Wants a New Center-Right Party
Tom Friedman actually penned a (mostly) righteous rant about that present status of the Republican Party, and he’s right that the country needs a center-right party that isn’t just a racket for grifters and nuts. But, maybe this shouldn’t be our highest priority right now. Can’t the modern GOP be vanquished before we start talking […]
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What’s Going on in the Republican Party Right Now is Shocking
Would it surprise you to hear that Donald Trump said something shocking yesterday? Probably not. But here’s the latest. On a conference call with supporters, someone asked the presumptive Republican nominee about a memo issued by his campaign staff asking surrogates to stop talking about the Trump University lawsuit. Here was his response: “Take that […]
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If Trump Isn’t a Change Agent
Mitch McConnell is trying to reassure concerned conservatives that their presidential nominee won’t be an apostate. And even as the presidential nominee, Trump won’t redefine the Republican Party, McConnell says. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Trump predicted he would transform the GOP into a “worker’s party” over the next five to 10 years. “My […]
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The “Wait and See” Republicans
Republican reaction to Donald Trump as their presumptive presidential nominee is all over the map. Of course there are those who are lining up to support him, some are digging in their heels and saying #NeverTrump, and a few are simply planning to remain silent. Regardless of how you feel about Trump’s candidacy, it is […]
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The Conservative Movement Died Last Night
[I did my initial reaction to yesterday’s events at my green place, but I’m truncating part of that for our format here at the Washington Monthly. If you want to see my reaction to the Democratic side of the equation, go there…] This has been the most hard to predict campaign in memory, but some […]
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Will He Stay or Will He Go?
Congratulations, George Will: you’ve just been kicked out of the conservative movement. You just knew there was going to be a profoundly negative reaction from the wingnuts to his latest syndicated column advising conservatives and Republicans to vote for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with an eye towards throwing her out of office in […]
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Alabama Governor Exposed as a Hypocrite
The same governor who told people who aren’t Christians that “we’re not brothers and sisters.”
