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WASHINGTON
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January 31, 2022
The Trump Sidekicks Rehab Tour
Reading the tea leaves on the political futures of Pence, DeSantis, and Pompeo. Plus, decoding the G.O.P.’s Kid Rock fantasy.
WASHINGTON
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January 24, 2022
Donny & Ronny: A G.O.P. Cold War in South Florida
Despite some shrieking media narratives, Trump and DeSantis don’t hate one another’s guts. Instead, they are involved in a more complex game theory.
WASHINGTON
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January 11, 2022
Revenge of the Post-Trump Pariah Caucus
Notes and observations on the Cruz-Carlson struggle session, the persistence of Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the slow-motion fracturing of the Trump coalition.
WASHINGTON
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January 5, 2022
My Country, Right or Far Right?: January 6th and the World It Created
I was at the Capitol on that fateful day, and what I remember most is that the insurrection wasn’t a surprise to those of us who covered the Trump movement. In fact, my sources had been discussing it for months. It’s everything that came next that shocked me.
WALL STREET
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December 30, 2021
The Great MAGA-Adjacent Hope?
David McCormick is the G.O.P.’s fantasy candidate of a perhaps bygone, bipartisan, pre-Q era: a swashbuckling former military hero with credentials from Princeton, McKinsey, and Bridgewater. But can he placate the Trumpists in Pennsylvania? If he does, he’ll quickly become one of the most important figures in the national party.
WASHINGTON
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December 7, 2021
The Democrats’ 2024 Kryptonite
Ever since Jeff Roe led Glenn Youngkin to victory in Virginia, he has become the G.O.P.’s master strategist for creating a new Trump-adjacent, post-Trump playbook for Never Trump Republicans. Herewith, he envisions 2022 and beyond.
WASHINGTON
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November 22, 2021
Has the G.O.P. Become the Party of Rittenhouse?
The broader political context that produced Rittenhouse is, in many ways, more disturbing than the Rittenhouse case itself.
WASHINGTON
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November 15, 2021
Is Bari Weiss U. For Real?
The evolution of the digital economy has already remade the media industry, allowing columnists like Weiss to circumvent the progressive gatekeepers who signed her paychecks and build her own subscription businesses on Substack. Actually, higher education seems like the natural next step.
WASHINGTON
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November 2, 2021
Will Trump’s Meme-SPAC Cash Grab Hurt His 2024 Odds?
The DWAC merger appears reckless, even to those in Trumpworld. As one former senior advisor put it: “It's got as much gas as the Hindenburg.”
WASHINGTON
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October 19, 2021
Welcome to University of Trump-Los Angeles
The Claremont Institute, a right-wing ivory tower in the Inland Empire, has become a finishing school for the likes of Ingraham, Shapiro, Cotton—and a sinecure for the political minds behind Trump’s attempted coup. In the process, it’s spawned an academic movement to preserve Trumpism after Trump.