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The modern-day Republican party is nothing but a Potemkin village

The Mormon wing of the conservative #Resistance turned out to be just as fallible as the hawks and libertarians.

When Mitt Romney announced his intended retirement from the U.S. Senate on Sept. 13, 2023, the Atlantic published an excerpt from his upcoming biography, in which the 2012 Republican presidential nominee told author McKay Coppins, “A very large portion of my party really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.”

What does it say about the state of the nation when a president, with decades of experience in politics, feels compelled to make speech after speech reminding us that we all have a stake in protecting the American experiment?

Mike Huckabee has warned of “bullets” flying if Donald Trump loses in 2024. Pretty much all mass shooters turn out to be infected with right-wing dogma. No need to kid ourselves about where this is coming from.

‘He didn’t especially like salmon, but found that if he put it on a hamburger bun and smothered it in ketchup, it made for a serviceable meal’

"Traditional" Republican views on everything from taxes to abortion failed, clearing a path for a Trumpist takeover

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Departure of 76-year-old may make room for further Trumpism in the Republican Party