Author: Scott Lemieux
They were extensively warned, but the chaos and ineptitude of the Trump administration meant that it didn't matter: Seven days before Donald Trump took office, his aides faced a major.
I see we're doing another day of "Republicans are totally pivoting to economic populism" now: I could go on, but you get the idea. What's important to emphasize here is.
Oklahoma's anti-vaxx crackpot governor is boldly willing to tell the truth: that everything is just fine! Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is in many ways a poster child for today’s Republican.
There have been a couple interesting de facto postmortems of Bernie's campaign about his failure to get or keep his most promising allies on board. First, with Elizabeth Warren: Last.
Our federal government is literally making a pandemic worse because their policies are determined by racism: Stephen Miller, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump created *precisely* the infectious disease Petri dish.
The Trump administration's response to COVID-19 is exactly as dysfunctional as you'd think: The economy was grinding to a halt. Stocks were in free fall. Schools were closing. Public events.
The buck stops...somewhere else: Video of my question to @realDonaldTrump today on his administration's disbanding of the White House team responsible for coordinating responses to pandemics. He called my question.
Here's a trip down Sensible, Reasonable Republican memory lane: I had forgotten my own reporting that @SenatorCollins stripped $870M for pandemic preparations out of the 2009 stimulus. pic.twitter.com/VTriR6ZsCS— Michael Grunwald.
