How to Take Heart From What Really Worked in the First Resistance
1 day ago · For many Americans who voted against Donald Trump, the national news right now is hard to take, as Republican winners make over-the-top claims, business leaders bow down, and U.S. senators endorse dangerously unqualified Cabinet nominees.Worst of all are headlines like Politico’s postelection “The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You.It’s Tuning Out.”
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The Real Meaning of Trump’s Fake History | The New Republic
4 days ago · As other autocratic leaders throughout history have done, Trump is perpetuating a lie designed to justify his actions and anger the populace. Perhaps he’s learned from Vladimir Putin, who has whitewashed Russian history and portrayed the war in Ukraine as a continuation of the effort to oust the Nazis from Europe. Or from Xi Jinping, who is so intent on presenting his own version of Chinese ...
No, Merrick Garland Did Not Let Donald Trump Skate
Jan 15, 2025 · The charge of foot-dragging has become a meme. Elie Honig, writing in New York magazine, was particularly cocksure: “The debate about whether Garland took too long to charge the Trump cases—or to appoint a Special Counsel to get the job done—is over.Exhibit A: there’s not going to be a federal trial before the 2024 election.
The Nihilists Are Coming Back to Washington | The New Republic
6 days ago · First, victory has not put these folks in a gracious mood. Donald Trump ran on the promise of exacting vengeance on “ the enemy within,” and his allies are more determined than ever to deliver.At last month’s AmericaFes t, an annual conference organized by Turning Point USA, which drew some 20,000 attendees to the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona, Steve Bannon condemned the “cancer ...
The First Resistance Failed. The Next One Can’t.
5 days ago · It helped that they had a case: There were legitimate questions about Russia’s influence in the 2016 election—not to mention Russia’s influence over Trump himself—that would soon blossom into a multiyear scandal that eventually culminated in his becoming the second president ever to be impeached.But there were myriad other motivations behind the anti-Trump movement that quickly emerged ...
Trump Just Handed Steve Bannon a Big Weapon in His War With …
Jan 18, 2025 · The weapon in question, it turns out, is buried in the Laken Riley Act, the controversial bill that would mandate the detention of undocumented immigrants accused of minor nonviolent crimes. Another provision in the bill—which the Senate advanced in a key procedural vote Friday with Trump’s tacit blessing, putting it on track to become law—would authorize state attorneys general to bring ...
Trump’s Defense Pick Proudly Admits the Rules Won’t Apply to Him
Jan 14, 2025 · During his confirmation hearings for secretary of defense Tuesday, Pete Hegseth was asked about cashing in from the defense industry—and refused to give a straight answer. Senator Elizabeth Warren pointed out that Hegseth had previously written that after generals retire from the military, they ...
What Trump Really Wants From Greenland and Panama
Jan 12, 2025 · As is almost always the case with Trump, though, the cleanest and perhaps most persuasive explanation is the simplest and dumbest: The territory, like Canada, looks really, really big on the commonly used (and widely distorted) Mercator projection. Adding it would be a huge ego boost for a man who, hours after planes hit the Twin Towers, boasted that he now owned the tallest building in New ...
The Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration System
Jan 14, 2025 · Nothing about the Laken Riley Act, the anti-immigration law that passed the House last week and is now being taken up in the Senate, would have prevented the murder of the young Georgia nursing student for which it was named.But the appropriation of her death by anti-immigration hardliners felt inevitable: As soon as law enforcement said last February that an undocumented immigrant was their ...