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In Dealing with the Pandemic, the GOP Is Taking a Page from Big Tobacco’s Playbook
In the age of coronavirus, Republican politics can kill you.
Neil Gorsuch Shows How Donald Trump Loses (Some) White Evangelical Christians
The court’s pro-LGBTQ ruling was not supposed to happen.
Trump’s double trouble
The Supreme Court’s ruling this morning complements today’s edition. I argued that the president telling the truth about the Bible he was holding for last week’s photo op was a mistake. In telling the truth, he was winking at the press, letting reporters in on the joke he’s been having at the expense of white…
Why Didn’t Trump Lie about the Bible?
“Is that your Bible?” he was asked. “It’s a Bible,” he said.
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Friday’s edition explained why Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, Joni Ernst and other anti-political correctness Republicans will struggle after George Floyd’s death. Their shtick depended on a majority of white people pretending racism and other variants of fascism did not exist if they weren’t overt. To be waged for years on end, the culture war needed plausible…
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George Floyd Ended the ‘Culture War’
Anti-political correctness needed plausible deniability. Now what?
What does “steal the election” mean?
The president can’t cancel the 2020 presidential election, but he can find ways to “steal” it, as Joe Biden said last night. The debacle in Georgia Tuesday is a case in point. The Washington press corps doesn’t seem to be taking the possibility seriously. I suppose it’s hard to take something seriously when it sounds…
We Now See Anti-Racism Is Patriotism
There’s virtually no resistance to tearing down Confederate statues.