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Republicans somehow made celebrity worship dumber

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Every now and then, it pays to stop and remember how the Republicans sank — and how fast. Imagine if ten years ago you had described the future of the Republican Party as: The most beloved character in the Family Values ​​Party is a three-times-married casino man who starred in a reality show, raving about it. How hot is the daughterHe bragged about trying to have sex with a married woman, and allegedly had sex with a porn star just months after his wife gave birth to her baby. Second,…

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Ron DeSantis knows that staying alive in the GOP means not playing nice

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If you want to know how to move forward in Republican politics today, look no further than Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Whether it’s enacting a controversial policy or managing a natural disaster, DeSantis – unlike Donald Trump – is efficient, disciplined and effective. The only problem? This is not what his fan base is demanding. So it gives them a lot of culture war work as well. Consider his recent handling of Hurricane Ian as a prime example of how DeSantis treads that tightrope brilliantly. “What really amazes me, in…

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What would it take for the Republican Party to condemn Donald Trump’s death threats?

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In 2016, when Donald Trump bragged that someone could be shot on Fifth Avenue and that he wouldn’t lose voters, a few Republican leaders assumed he was talking about targeting them. Well, MAGA chickens have finally come home to sit. They are generously sized, wave Confederate flags, perform a one-finger Q salute, and are armed with AR-15s. Fast-forward to 2022, the twice-impeached vulgar over the weekend posted what any sane person would read as death threats against Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Not to be outdone, he also threw…

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How the Lincoln Project fooled anti-Trump liberals

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The Lincoln Project, created in late 2019 to help defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, is one of the largest phishing scams in modern human history, designed to change the country’s political future by getting inside – and completely deceiving – the chief of staff. Formed and led by disenfranchised senior Republican advisers and strategists, it produced viral ads that took the fight straight to Trump. With her violent attacks, she became a hit with those on both sides of the political aisle, though her ascent into the…

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Take, for example, Donald Trump’s “warning” of violence for what it is – a threat

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If a man tells you that he is going to punch you in the face, and you tell his comrades to punch other people in the face, then warn everyone that they will start punching people in the face, and they eventually did. A lot of people are up against – you’d probably take their word for it if they threatened to do it again, wouldn’t you? This is what Donald Trump and his militia are doing right now. The ex-president – still unwilling to admit his loss in an…

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What the hell was the Republican Party thinking about pushing such negligent candidates?

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Republicans don’t send us their best. Thanks to a handful of primaries winners, Republicans are effectively giving up winnable seats with better candidates. Let’s start in Michigan, where news broke this week of the House nominee Trump endorsed John Gibbs argued against women’s suffrage while in college. But other than that, he… still amazing. Other Gibbs “greatest hits” include calling Democrats Party “Gender bows“defend Antisemitic Twitter feedpushing the theory that Hillary Clinton is the campaign chairperson John Podesta participated in a satanic ritual (No wonder the Democrats boosted his nomination.)…

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Donald Trump is making love to QAnon and we should all be terrified

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I didn’t think it was possible, but Donald Trump is more dangerous than ever. Last week, he warned America that if he was indicted, we would have “problems … the likes of which we may have never seen before.” For a man who has already instigated violent riots by his defeat in the 2020 election, the veiled threat of violence (a nice democracy there – if you can keep it!) cannot be dismissed as a toothless hoax. But it gets (arguably) worse: Trump is full of the law. Last Tuesday,…

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This Isn’t the First Time White Racists Have Sent Migrants North on Buses (Though Using Planes Is New)

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Gov. Ron DeSantis took credit this past Wednesday for putting 50 asylum seekers from Colombia and Venezuela on two flights from Florida to the Massachusetts resort town of Martha’s Vineyard. Through an aide, the governor told Fox News he’d undertaken the move under Florida’s new “relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations.” “States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as ‘sanctuary states’ and support for the…

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Lindsey Graham’s bill to ban abortion is bad policy and stupid policy

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Lindsey Graham and his followers in the Republican Party are preparing to wrest defeat from the jaws of victory, perhaps even turning the projected “red wave” of 2022 into a Republican bloodbath. On Tuesday, the South Carolina senator announced via Press Conference That if Republicans win the House and Senate, they would impose a nationwide ban on abortions after 15 weeks, with narrow exceptions. Not only would Graham’s proposal be about patellar rights guaranteed by states that have moved to protect abortion access, it would also be a reflection of…

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Trump Maga heirs want a nicer despot

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Since Donald Trump brought down that gold-plated escalator in 2015, the American right has relied more on coercion than on persuasion. This month’s conservative national conference (its third edition), held in Miami, signaled a growing commitment to this tough approach. One separate session included an invitation to Compulsory military service for anyone earning more than $250,000 a year. And Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for the US Senate in Arizona, led one prominent conservative to a preposterous tweet:It seems like [Masters] Understands Victor Urban’s lesson. “ But perhaps the most…

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