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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.
MEDIA
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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.
WASHINGTON
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October 7, 2021
Javanka ’24: Will They or Won’t They?
The greatest looming question in American politics is, alas, whether Trump will run for president again. And if he does, will his closest family members—“the interns,” as they were known in the west wing—ride shotgun once again?
WASHINGTON
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September 20, 2021
“The Big Elephant”: Mike Pence Readies His Act III
The former vice president is looking to thread a political needle: disavow Trump, make nice with the guy’s supporters, and somehow cash in on what’s left of his Republican street cred. Will that persuade donors in advance of 2024? And what will Mother think?
WASHINGTON
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September 13, 2021
To Be or Not to Be: Trump’s Big 2024 Question
As the aging Palm Beach prince ponders his future, a vortex of political calculations are coming into view. And while the perks of post-presidential life may be compelling (who doesn’t want to hang out with Evander Holyfield), many on the far right know that the party is his—and they believe Biden is uniquely vulnerable to a rematch.
PUCK
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September 12, 2021
Why I Joined Puck
It takes a new kind of media company to cover Republican politics in the post-Trump era.