conservatives
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Vivek Ramaswamy Is What Moral Bankruptcy Looks Like
I’ll keep this column short tonight, not because it doesn’t merit a full blast of energy, but because I didn’t intend to write twice today. But over the past 72 hours, I have grown more incensed by the news from Ohio and the reckless, perverse joy Republican Vivek Ramaswamy feels as he pushes his closing… Continue reading
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Pete Hegseth Staff Broke More Than Dwight Eisenhower Globe
Pete Hegseth’s staff damaged a priceless globe associated with Dwight D. Eisenhower after bypassing trained curators, trying to move it themselves, dropping it, and leaving a gash near Antarctica. The Army acknowledged the damage occurred during an attempted move, and reports indicate the Defense Secretary’s office had been seeking the globe. The broken globe is… Continue reading
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Trump Goes All In With Putin, Bets Against Western Democracy
Donald Trump’s embrace of Vladimir Putin raises a fundamental question about America’s role in the world: Is the United States still committed to defending democracy, sovereignty, and the Western alliance—or is it prepared to sacrifice those principles for a deal with the Kremlin? There has never been any doubt among a large segment of the… Continue reading
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The Midterm Mistake Machine: Republicans Keep Creating Their Own Problems
The official White House document for the new AI safety agreement contains a prominent typographical error, misspelling Donald Trump’s title as “President of the Unites States” instead of “United States”. As of Wednesday morning, the glaring error remained uncorrected. This is not a scandal or a headline story. The irony, however, is almost too perfect… Continue reading
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Iowa’s Farm Woes Will Echo At The Ballot Box
Tim Russert famously used a handheld whiteboard to map out potential Electoral College outcomes. To emphasize exactly which state would decide the winner in 2000, he scribbled the iconic phrase: “Florida, Florida, Florida”. Since June of this year, without a whiteboard or a television show, I repeated one state to friends and folks who engage… Continue reading
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A Red Menace Going Out, Blue Wave Approaching
Today it was very apparent, after only a few minutes of reading columns and newsletters, just how damaged the Republican Party is as the November midterm elections near. Time magazine ended a column with this stark statement from a GOP operative. A simmering fear is that the trendlines may get even worse in the coming… Continue reading
