#Trumpism

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

The conclusion to draw from 4 years of post-truth is that the crackpots are occasionally right, people with axes to grind overstate the ‘occasionally’ into ‘almost always’ and people who

Varad Mehta

varadmehta

https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1339538118521856003 "After beating Trump and creating a permission structure for some GOP voters to back Biden, the task now, they said, is to turn back Republicans' embrace of authoritarianism

Karen Attiah

KarenAttiah

Our institutions were breached long before what happened on Capitol Hill on 1/6. They were breached when warnings of Trump's racism were not taken seriously. They were breached when our

Shadi Hamid

shadihamid

Something about the U.S. response to COVID has been bothering me, and it goes well beyond the president's own failures. In this new essay, I explore how anti-Trump narratives misled

Axios

axios

Former Missouri Sen. John Danforth, who mentored Josh Hawley and called him a "once-in-a-generation" candidate, said supporting him "was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life."https://www.axios.com/josh-hawley-

Alan Berube

berubea1

Today marks the end of four long years for many Americans who have been angered and ashamed at what the outgoing administration did to this country. (1/21) It’s been difficult

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

I’ve been reporting on US & global rightwing movements for 20 years, 4 years on the Trump beat. I read Trumpism from a religious studies background, attentive to the myths,

Ben Mauk

benmauk

The most risible thing about Blumenthal's denial of an internment drive in Xinjiang is that they absolutely *didn't* examine the source data, which is readily available from public Chinese government

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koaleszenz

Every few days a screenshot goes viral of some brainwormed nerd who hits on a woman in the DMs, thinks back to his Jedi training and recalls "negging is good",

Stuart Schrader

stschrader1

Some thoughts: The great paradox of 1/6 is that so much of the planning happened out in the open (both in the immediate run-up and over the past 4+ years),

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suzania

1/ This is not just an appeal along the lines of, "You can, if you choose, vote for the good guys." It's that too, but it's not just that. That

Madeleine Morris

remittancegirl

This morning, I am attempting to shift my thinking from reactive to analytical. So… there’s a long thread coming. First, Trump’s promise of a peaceful transition is immaterial. We have

Tom Nichols

RadioFreeTom

The raging narcissism, particularly of the cosplaying men who now deny that they wanted no part of any of the seditious stuff, is striking. Men who have a huge reserve

Tim O'Brien

TimOBrien

Trump’s Russia scandal wasn’t a “hoax.” It was reality. And a bipartisan report today from a Senate committee led by Republicans is a reminder that facts still matter - and

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

I continue to believe the Neustadt interpretation of Trump is the correct one: this is a weak president in in danger of a complete failed presidency. Today's cave-in speech on

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

First the black, white & blue anti-Black Lives Matter flag flew outside of Trump rallies, then on stage, next to the US flag; in Wisconsin last week it replaced the

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