By Greg Sargent and Michael ‘Tomasky, The New Republic, October 23, 2024. Last month, a GOP-friendly polling firm presented itself, and its data, in a highly unusual way. Rather than maintain a nominally neutral public-facing profile, this pollster acted more like a cavalry brigade for Donald Trump’s campaign. And the firm did so explicitly, openly,
By Yvonne Abraham, Boston Globe, August 19, 2024. This went way beyond creepy long ago. The extremists who run the GOP are obsessed with our uteri. Like, weirdly obsessed. Their fixation is about more than forcing women to give birth whether we want to or not, though Lord knows they are plenty concerned with that.
By Renée Grahm, The Boston Globe, August 4, 2024. Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, who’s vying to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, is getting big props for giving his rejuvenated party the political buzzword of the moment: “weird.” In a series of recent public appearances, Walz has been tossing that word around like
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Opinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN )Former President Donald Trump gave his first public speech this weekend since President Joe Biden warned Americans in a televised address that “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” And how did Trump respond? By proving Biden 100% correct. At his
Trump’s GOP has made it clear this week who should ‘just comply’ with law enforcement, and it isn’t him. By Yvonne Abraham, Globe Columnist It is blindingly obvious at this point that today’s Republican Party believes rules are for other people. And those values they claim to live by? Inviolable, as long as they work
By Paul Krugman New York Times Opinion Columnist Many political analysts have spent years warning that the G.O.P. was becoming an extremist, anti-democratic party. Long before Republicans nominated Donald Trump for president, let alone before Trump refused to acknowledge electoral defeat, the congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein declared that the party had become