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Seth Cotlar
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The "Deep State" chryon here caught my eye. It's become such a ubiquitous talking point in conservative media. When did American politicians and commentators start using that term? Well, I
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Conservatives are attacking so called "cancel culture" because they want to normalize racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. by drawing attention to isolated instances where the efforts to undo such bigotries were
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Thinking today about the GOP's response to the 3 great crisis of the 21st century.9/11--let's go fight a war, invade citizens' privacy, do some torture, and create a new federal
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With apologies to Allen Ginsberg. Howl, as rewritten by the Lincoln Project.I saw the worst minds of my party destroyed by MAGA, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the Charlottesville streets
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Watching Biden tonight, my mind flashed back to this moment in 2008 when my WWII veteran grandpa, a Republican most of his life, left the party to proudly vote for
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If I was the king of the nation's attention, I would force everyone to read this entire thread. It explains soooooo much about the current state of our political culture,
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This reminds me of a 2010 poll of Tea Party supporters in which 84% said that "the views of the people involved in the Tea Party movement generally reflect the
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A GOP political culture that regards Americans who don't agree with them as existential enemies to the nation is the logical result of the GOP's longrunning culture war approach to
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Every time a public figure talks about the P**ud Buoys, they should note that the group conducts readings from Pat Buchanan's 2001 book, The Death of the West, at every
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[Stares in historian.]https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1316003676918513664 Has Amy Coney Barrett ever read interpretations of the constitution from, say, 1910? Or 1850? Does she think those past jurists just got the Constitution wrong
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1. Some thoughts on media, democracy, skepticism, and trust. It’s commonplace for us to teach kids to be skeptical consumers of media. But perhaps we should slightly reframe that advice
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1. I would love to read a sympathetic (yet critical) essay that assessed a central claim made by Never Trumpers like @davidfrum--that conservatism today is an embarrassing bastardization of what
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