Category: Politics
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A Taxonomy of the Trump Party
Now that the Republican Party is explicitly the party of uncritical, unyielding, and perpetual fealty to twice-impeached disgraced one-term president Donald Trump, it’s helpful to locate where different politicians rank in terms of their adherence to the Trump Party: True Believers On the craziest end of the Trump Party spectrum are True Believers such as…
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Republicans Have Given Up Governing in Favor of Spicy Memes
On Wednesday, President Biden offered a detailed legislative agenda with the means to pay for it. Senator Tim Scott (the only Black Republican senator) was tasked with unenviable job of providing the other side’s rebuttal. Did he counter Biden’s proposals with Republican ones? Of course not. Scott’s response—which began with lamenting that “our nation is…
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Takeaways from QPAC 2021
Donald Trump is, and for the foreseeable future will continue to be, in complete and total control of the Republican Party. Any Republican who wishes to have any position of power within the party must obtain his endorsement. As a corollary, nothing less than absolute, complete, and unquestioning fealty to Donald Trump the person is…
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That Didn’t Take Long
Within 24 hours of Joe Biden announcing California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, Newsweek of all places posted a “just asking questions” op-ed wondering whether Harris is constitutionally qualified to serve as the Vice President. The op-ed was written by John Eastman, a professor of law at the right-wing Chapman University. (I will…
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Who Knew International Trade Would Be So Hard?
Strange how the guy who boasts about his degree from “Wharton”—which is, in reality, an undergraduate degree in economics—knows little or nothing about how international trade works in the 21st century. His promise of a trade war, one that he himself elected to start, is coming to fruition. It’s a trade war that appears to…
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