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The 1776 reactionaries

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One of the ideas, for lack of a better term, emanating from MAGA-land is that the 1/6 Sedition Riots were analogous to the American Revolution: During an appearance on conservative outlet Real America’s Voice, Greene repeated a frequent GOP talking point that the real focus of...

Do we have a deal?

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Possibly! President Biden on Thursday unveiled a new $1.75 trillion package to overhaul the country’s health-care, education, climate and tax laws, muscling through a slew of policy disagreements and internecine political.

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Cracking down on COVID spreaders

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A flight attendant on an American Airlines flight from New York to Orange County was subjected to what sounds like it was a pretty serious physical assault yesterday, after trying to get a passenger to comply with mask rules: American says Flight 976 from John F....
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There’s something happening here

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My guess is that"something" consists of 25 years of mainlining Fox News, plus a decade of Rush before that -- the radio show, not band, although maybe that too -- plus whatever the equivalents were in the 1960s and 1970s: newsletters from Richard Viguerie and Jesse...
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Trolling and the reactionary mind

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Friend of the blog Rick Perlstein has a brilliant piece about the central importance of trolling to conservative discourse in America: David Frum, the former George W. Bush speechwriter and current never-Trump conservative, recently wrote, “The post-Trump right has a style as distinctive as its authoritarian...
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