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WASHINGTON
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April 8, 2022
The Right Stuff: Sex, Lies, and Judicial Confirmations
Notes on the G.O.P.’s pedo fixations, a political orgy trial balloon, Elon Musk’s Twitter curiosities, and Trump’s 2020 fantasies.
WASHINGTON
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April 4, 2022
The Right Stuff: Oz’s Agony, How Elon Ripped Trump, Shapironomics
I asked a Trump advisor if the former president would come back onto Twitter if Musk somehow engineered it. “In a heartbeat,” the advisor texted back immediately.
WASHINGTON
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March 25, 2022
Ron DeSantis’s Dangerous Game
The governor’s relative silence on Russia and Ukraine may appeal in Florida, but it could also be the first folly of his ’24 candidacy.
WASHINGTON
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March 7, 2022
The G.O.P.’s New Trump-Putin Headache
As Russia’s iron curtain descends on Ukraine, the Republican base is torn between Tucker Carlson's isolationism, Trump’s Putin idolatry, and the gun-toting, “Red Dawn” fantasy of Zelensky’s heroic, Alamo-esque stand.
SILICON VALLEY
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February 24, 2022
Trump Media’s Achilles’ Heel
John Matze, the former C.E.O. of Parler, reflects on the logistical and economic challenges of growing Truth Social from a social-media laughingstock into a legitimate Twitter rival.
WASHINGTON
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February 11, 2022
Rogan, Pence, and the Closing of the Conservative Mind
The Republican Party would love to talk more about Joe Rogan, and less about January 6. If only Donald Trump would let them.
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.