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Jared Kushner is backing a 'hostile takeover' of US infrastructure: analysis

Salon reporter Sophia Tesfaye says “the speed and scale of Jared Kushner’s re-emergence can’t be overstated,” and neither can his corruption.

“In the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, his son-in-law is casually consolidating economic and political power with staggering speed,” said Tesfaye. “Kushner has positioned himself at the center of the biggest media merger in years and at the fulcrum of White House foreign policy, all while taking in multi-billion-dollar investments from autocratic governments.”

Tesfaye said Paramount Skydance recently launched a bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery through a hostile takeover. Paramount’s offer draws heavily from Kushner’s investment firm, Affinity Partners, and from the sovereign wealth funds of Middle Eastern autocracies Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Which would give them — and Kushner — influence over some of America’s most powerful news and cultural engines

“The partnership is unprecedented,” said Tesfaye. “Not even Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing media empire was capitalized by foreign monarchies seeking political leverage.

Kushner raised over $3 billion for Affinity Partners at the end of the first Trump administration, said Tesfaye, including $2 billion from the Saudi government’s Public Investment Fund. The UAE and Qatar soon followed, “adding another $1.5 billion to the pot.”

The sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar amount to autocracies investing in the infrastructure of American political communication, said Tesfaye, and they are doing so through the president’s son-in-law — a man whose application for a top-secret clearance was initially rejected in Trump’s first term after an FBI background check raised concerns about potential foreign influence.

“You could not design a more direct conflict of interest,” she said. “Paramount is even trying to structure the deal to avoid federal review by arguing that foreign investors would have no ‘voting rights,’ a fiction so flimsy it should insult the intelligence of any serious regulator.”

The merger will affect CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. Pictures. And Trump “has long been obsessed with CNN,” said Tesfaye, while Kushner “is credited with orchestrating Spanish-language network TelevisaUnivision’s rightward shift ahead of the 2024 election, which saw Trump’s electoral performance among Hispanic voters subsequently improve.”

But Kushner’s influence is not limited to the media, said Tesfaye. Weeks ago, he proved a central actor behind Trump’s new Gaza initiative, and he’s quietly inserted himself into Trump’s Ukraine diplomacy, Tesfaye said.

“In late November, he and White House envoy Steve Witkoff met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow for five hours. Kushner and Witkoff, neither of whom hold formal government positions, were allowed to meet with the Russian president before even some Cabinet-level officials. The pair then joined Ukrainian officials in separate talks in Geneva and Miami,” Tesfaye said. “This is privatized foreign policy: diplomacy conducted by men whose incentives are not in the public interest.”

Republicans spent years wailing about former first son Hunter Biden’s foreign business ties,” wrote Tesfaye. “And yet here stands Jared Kushner: a man who has made a small fortune from a large one, who positioned himself as a ‘deal-maker’ while outsourcing U.S. foreign policy to the highest bidder, who now wants to help pick which news organizations survive and which are purged.”

“Kushner’s sudden, sweeping reappearance is not a coincidence or a comeback,” said Tesfaye. “It is a consolidation. He’s back to lead a hostile takeover of our information ecosystem.”

Read the full Newsbreak report at this link.

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MAGA fans demand Trump address rising costs as 'the biggest thing'

The top priorities of MAGA adherents attending President Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally were roughly in tune with those of the rest of American voters: Inflation.

Conservative media company Right Side Broadcasting Network, known for their live stream coverage of Trump rallies and America First events, sent host Matthew Alvarez to Trump’s Pennsylvania rally at Mount Airy Casino Resort on Tuesday to interview Trump fans waiting in line and inside the venue before Trump took the stage.

What they caught on tape was not exactly the issue Trump focused on.

“I would like to see [Trump] talk more about grocery prices because he’s the guy that can do it. And he’s done it,” said one woman Alvarez interviewed. “I would like them to say to the Democrats, you talk about affordability. Okay. What’s your policy that’s different than mine that’s going to help the American people? And if you have it, why don’t we work together in the Congress now and fix it? … So I’d like to see the golden age come, stock market go up, crypto go up, prices come down, wages go up, manufacturing comes back.”

Another fan, while demanding Trump “get rid of immigrant freeloaders,” also asked Trump to “lower fuel prices.”

“And that’s it?” asked Alvarez.

“That’s the biggest thing,” the fan confirmed.

But Trump didn’t really address his tactics for lowering U.S. inflation, be it fuel or groceries. Instead, he resorted to scolding voters who were unwilling to do with less.

“You can give up certain products, you can give up pencils because under the China policy, you know, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need one or two,” Trump told fans at the Pennsylvania stop.

This prompted one CNN anchor to call Trump “an out of touch, literally gold-gilded president who outright refuses to recognize the economic reality for the vast majority of Americans.”

“He’s putting 37 gold things on literally one [Oval Office] wall while he's asking families to tighten their belts at the holidays to live without more than two pencils or two dolls in the name of an economic policy that everyone knows is making inflation worse,” said MS NOW host Nicole Wallace.

Read the Newsbreak report at this link.

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Busted: 'Mean-spirited' Trump allies hid collusion to inflate grocery costs

On Friday, a nonprofit forced the Trump administration to unseal a damning complaint lodged by the Biden-era Federal Trade Commission against Pepsi for colluding with Walmart to raise food prices across the nation. New un-redacted information claims FTC Chair Ferguson and his colleague Mark Meador (both Trump appointees) were hiding the mechanics of Pepsi’s and Wal-Mart’s price fixing.

Pepsi is a “must-have” product for grocery stores, and Walmart is also massively powerful,” reports BIG Newsletter writer Matt Stoller. Critics say Pepsi allegedly engages in price discrimination to maintain the approval of Walmart, its biggest buyer — even going so far as to police prices at smaller rival stores. And it prepares reports for Walmart showing them their pricing advantages on Pepsi products.

When the “price gap” between Wal-Mart and its tiny rivals narrow too much, Pepsi tracks where consumers were buying Pepsi products outside of Walmart. It keeps logs on stores who would “self-fund” Pepsi product discounts, nicknaming them “offenders” and then raise their stock price, forcing them to carry those costs down to their customers.

“This dynamic is why independent grocery stores are dying,” said Stoller. “… It’s led to less competition, fewer local grocery stores, and higher prices. … To the end consumer, it creates an optimal illusion. Walmart appears to be a low-cost retailer, but that’s because it induces its suppliers to push prices up at rivals.”

Much of this information was redacted by Trump officials, however, including Ferguson and Meador. Normally, when the government files an antitrust case, the complaint gets redacted to protect confidential business information. Then the corporate defendant and the government haggle over what is genuinely confidential business information and complaints are eventually unsealed with some minor blacked out phrases, and the case goes on.

“In this case, however, … Ferguson abruptly dropped the case in February after Pepsi hired well-connected lobbyists,” said Stoller. “… Ferguson ended it the day before the government was supposed to go before the judge to manage the unsealing process. And that kept the complaint redacted. With the complaint kept secret, Ferguson, and … Meador, then publicly went on the attack.”

Ferguson released a “bitter and personal” statement against Biden-era FTC Chair Lina Khan — who had brought the complaint against Pepsi — implying that she was lawless and partisan, that there was “no evidence” to support key contentions, and that Ferguson had to “clean up the Biden-Harris FTC’s mess.” Fellow commissioner Mark Meador later echoed his comments on on X.

“And that was where it was supposed to stay, secret, with mean-spirited name-calling and invective camouflaging the real secret Ferguson was trying to conceal,” said Stoller. “That secret is something we all know, but this complaint helped prove that the center of the affordability crisis in food is market power. If that got out, then Ferguson would have to litigate this case or risk deep embarrassment. So, the strategy was to handwave about that mean Lina Khan to lobbyists, while keeping the evidence secret.”

But anti-monopoly group The Institute for Local Self-Reliance filed to make the full complaint public, and Judge Jesse Matthew Furman agreed to hear ILSR’s case, with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Pepsi bitterly opposed.

“Last week, Furman directed the FTC unseal the complaint. So we finally got to see what Ferguson and Meador were trying to hide,” Stoller said.

Read the full BIG report at this link

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Ex-lawmakers rip 'cowards' in Congress for letting Trump walk all over them

New York Times writer Lulu Garcia-Navarro says Congress’ approval rating is at a “dreadful 15 percent,” and President Donald Trump’s own polling is at dismal levels. Yet, Congressional Republicans can’t seem to release their death grip on the unpopular president.

Former lawmakers also accuse Congress of allowing President Donald Trump to walk over them and usurp power.

“Abdication,” said former Sen. Joe Manchin, when asked to describe Congress. “They’ve abdicated their responsibilities.”

“Those are … bleak words,” said Garcia-Navarro.

“You want us to call them cowards?” said former Sen. Joe Manchin.

Former Sen. Jeff Flake warned that presidents always push the limit in terms of executive orders, but added that “Trump is doing that in spades. That’s why you need a Senate willing to stand up.”

Retiring Democratic Sen. Tina Smith also called Congress “broken,” and said she was glad to be retiring with a host of political attacks and Trump saying “that two of my colleagues and four members of the House of Representatives should be tried for treason and executed.”

Flake recalled in 2005 when former Rep. Tom Delay demanded a GOP lawmaker be able to pass a piece of legislation with just Republican votes before bringing it to the floor for consideration.

“’And if it might gather bipartisan votes, then knock some provisions off so it won’t be attractive and then use that as a cudgel during the next election,’” Flake recalled DeLay saying. “You had people mature as politicians under that system, and some of them have gone to the Senate.

Manchin complained today of “guilt by conversation” in the House and Senate, where “you can’t even be seen having a conversation with someone who might not be on the same side.”

Flake said that, “in a functioning legislative body, you would think that the Democratic leader and the Republican leader would talk to each other all the time, to try to figure things out, to try to get things going. It just doesn’t happen anymore.”

Manchin and Flake both bemoaned a president who could bully lawmakers into ducking the will of their voters by threatening to field opponents to primary them if they “don’t do what I say.” Manchin called for congressional term limits but also open primaries.

All agreed that Trump was seizing power with the help of the Republican majority, but also felt they saw “cracks in the façade” with the departure of Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, as people realize that “it’s popular now to be against the president on a couple of issues and in order to survive the general election.”

Read the New York Times report at this link.

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'Not what they voted for': Why swing voters are leaving Trumpism in droves

New York Times writer E.J. Dionne Jr., says a great many Americans who helped put Donald Trump in office have absorbed what’s happened since.

“They may not be glued to every chaotic twist of this presidency, but they do pay attention and have concluded, reasonably, that this is not what they voted for,” said Dionne.

Compared to Trump’s 49.8 percent of the 2024 popular vote, Trump’s approval ratings are a slide. A New York Times analysis of public polling this month found his net approval rating had dropped to 42 percent, while a A.P./NORC poll and a Gallup poll put him at 36 percent.

“This suggests that 15 to 25 percent of his voters have changed their minds,” Dionne said. “I think of these shifts as the triumph of reasonableness — and not because I agree with where these fellow citizens have landed (although I do). I’m buoyed by the capacity of citizens to absorb new facts and take in information even when it challenges decisions they previously made. It turns out that swing voters are what their label implies. The evidence of their own lives and from their own eyes matters.”

The shift dispels myths about Trump having “magical powers to distract and deceive,” said Dionne. It also proves that reality can still get through the breakdown of U.S. media and information systems.

Furthermore, Dionne said the decay of Trump’s standing is a rebuke to widespread claims a year ago that his victory represented “a fundamental realignment in American politics, akin to those led by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s or Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.”

“The case for a Trump realignment was built in large part on Republican wishcasting and Democratic despondency, married to a few facts, including substantial Trump gains among Latinos and young men,” wrote Dionne. “True, the Republicans secured majorities in the Senate and the House. But the G.O.P. won two fewer seats in the House in 2024 than it did two years earlier — far from the sweeping gains typically yielded by realigning elections.”

But a nationwide trend in a single election is not a realignment, argued Dionne, and Trump squandered whatever opportunity the G.O.P. might have had to expand its map with his extremism.

In 2025, “Trumpian flimflam hit its limits,” Dionne said, with even the G.O.P. in the Indiana State Senate defying Trump’s demand for a midterm congressional redistricting.

“His power to intimidate is ebbing. A reasonable majority exists. It’s searching for alternatives to a leader and a movement it has found wanting,” Dionne said.

Read the New York Times report at this link.

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'Unmotivated donors' plague Republicans in pivotal southern state

Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King is sounding the alarm on party donations heading into the mid-terms.

“The usually low-key King posted a lengthy statement to social media, almost a manifesto, after Democrats managed to flip a Republican state House seat in Oconee and Clarke counties,” wrote Atlanta Journal Constitution Senior Political columnist Patricia Murphy. “That unexpected special election loss followed two 26-point Democratic routs in November for a pair of statewide Public Service Commission seats, which Georgia Republicans have dominated for decades.”

Murphy reports the PSC upsets came after another September special election to fill former state GOP Sen. Brandon Beach’s deep-red seat finished with the Republican contender winning 10 percentage points behind what the Republican incumbent won the year before.

“Georgia Republicans, we have a problem,” King wrote, before describing unmotivated GOP donors, unmotivated Republican base voters and a muddled party message that put other issues ahead of people’s difficult economic realities.

“Unless the party changes course,” he warned, Republicans will be outraised, outspent and defeated next year, too.

“Everyone behind the scenes knows it, even if hardly anyone is willing to say it publicly,” King wrote.

“As his statement ricocheted around GOP circles this week,” fellow Republicans reached out to thank him for speaking up, said Murphy.

“Somebody had to say something,” one said.

Georgia GOP Chairman Josh McKoon denies the party has a problem, chalking the PSC losses as the result of the timing of the races, which overlapped with off-year city elections that typically turn out more Democrats.

“These elections don’t have any predictive value,” McKoon said, but other party team players aren’t buying it.

Murphy reports “a communications vacuum” at the state level as Gov. Brian Kemp enters his last year in office and the state’s next top three Republicans — Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, Attorney General Chris Carr and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — face off in a primary race to replace Kemp. Each one is trying to put affordability at the top of their list of issues, but they’re all competing against each other, including on messaging. And President Donald Trump’s own message operation in Washington isn’t helping, with Trump dismissing Americans’ affordability issues as a “Democrat hoax.”

“You’re doing better than you’ve ever done!” Trump said at a recent rally in Pennsylvania, but Georgia Democratic Party Chair Charlie Bailey called Trump’s comments “insulting and idiotic.”

“This isn’t rocket science,” said Bailey. “If you do things that hurt folks and make it harder for people to achieve the American dream, they might have a bad reaction to that. And that’s what we’re seeing in Georgia.”

Murphy said King had sought to run for Senate in 2026 but dropped out when he learned Trump was not giving him an endorsement in the GOP primary. Murphy said that snub has given King the freedom to be the Republicans’ very own Paul Revere, warning the GOP, “The midterms are coming!”

“Only Republicans can decide if they’re willing to listen,” said Murphy.

Read the AJC report at this link.
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Showdown coming as election denier's lawyer claims Trump pardon applies to state charges

President Donald Trump signed a formal pardon for Tina Peters, according to Peter Ticktin, her Florida-based attorney, who shared the pardon document with Newsline on Friday.

The document, which appears to be dated Dec. 5, says it grants “a full and unconditional pardon” for “those offenses she has or may have committed or taken part in related to election integrity and security during the period January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021.”

The pardon applies to Peters’ conviction on state charges, Ticktin said. The charges related to Peters’ role in a 2021 security breach when she was the Mesa County clerk.

Presidential pardons have universally been understood to apply only to federal crimes, not state crimes. Reports about Trump’s claim to have pardoned Peters, announced on social media Thursday, characterized it as empty or “symbolic.”

“Trump’s pardon has no legal impact on her state conviction and incarceration,” according to CNN.

But Ticktin says the pardon is the tool he needs to compel Colorado to free Peters.

“She didn’t commit any federal offenses,” Ticktin said in an interview with Newsline. “The only thing that she could be pardoned on are state offenses, because that’s all that are out there.”

Peters, 70, is incarcerated at La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo. The Republican was convicted by a Mesa County jury for her role in a security breach of her own election equipment that was part of an effort to find evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. She was sentenced in October 2024.

Claims that the election was fraudulent or compromised have been debunked by elections officials, experts, media investigations, law enforcement, the courts and Trump’s own campaign and administration officials.

Ticktin applied to the Trump administration last month for a pardon. He followed up last week with a letter to Trump in which he detailed his argument that Trump has the power to pardon Peters. He says the Constitution’s references to the United States apply to the individual states as well as the country as a whole, concluding that the president “has the power to grant a pardon in any of the states of the United States.”

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, said Thursday the state will abide by whatever courts order concerning the pardon. But he said Trump lacks pardon power in Peters’ case.

“Tina Peters was convicted by a jury of her peers, prosecuted by a Republican District Attorney, and found guilty of violating Colorado state laws, including criminal impersonation,” he said in a statement. “No President has jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state convictions.”

Ticktin expects the Trump administration to submit the pardon to the Colorado Department of Corrections, which is likely to refuse to release Peters, he said. The pardon then might have bearing in the Colorado Court of Appeals, where Peters has appealed her conviction.

“If the pardon counts, the appeal has to stop,” Ticktin said. “The appeal’s over. It becomes moot.”

Ultimately he expects the matter to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, where a 6-3 conservative majority has sided with Trump at an unusually high rate.

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GOP running out of options for controlling Congress after door slams shut

Indiana was not just a blow to President Donald Trump’s effort to stack the deck for the 2026 election; it also undercut the perception of his power over the Republican Party. If Indiana Republicans who defied Trump’s demands are any indication, the push to engineer more GOP seats may be faltering.

Adam Wren reported for Politico Friday that Republicans are struggling to find the extra “padding” Trump wanted. Texas is gerrymandering out Democrats, while California has gerrymandered out Republicans; North Carolina picked up one new GOP seat, but Utah added one Democratic seat, for a net of three Republican seats. That is far short of what some in the party had hoped for.

Complicating matters, several House Republicans hold districts that also voted for Democrats such as President Joe Biden in 2020 and Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, meaning narrowly held GOP seats could flip in a blue-wave year.

There is also a pending Supreme Court ruling that could change Louisiana’s map, with the 6–3 conservative majority expected to give red states an advantage.

South Carolina, for example, Wren said, hasn't begun to redraw its lines, but leaders want to. If the Supreme Court case continues to weaken the Voting Rights Act, it means both states could redraw the districts. If the Voting Rights Act is gutted, Democrats fear "a 19-seat pickup for the GOP."

"And any decision will launch a torrent of legislation that could kick sand in the gears, at least for 2026. If you’re feeling exhausted by the redistricting fight: Take a quick nap. It’s a long road ahead," wrote Wren.

Read the full update here.

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'Scumbags': GOP digital team in epic collapse following party's humiliating remarks

Bulwark editors Sam Stein and Andrew Egger took on the epic collapse of the RNC social media team after humiliating remarks from RNC Chair Joe Gruters threatened to diminish donations and curb GOP voter turnout.

Gruters said out loud this week that the Republican Party is likely headed to “almost certain defeat” in the upcoming mid-terms, which sent the RNC’s digital team into an obscenity-laced panic with accounts insulting and name-calling critics about the claims.

The reason this sort of matters is because it can deflate your donors,” Stein told Egger. “It can deflate members of your own party.”

Stein then cited Obama White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs telling Sunday show, “Meet the Press,” that “no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control.”

“It caused a multi-day crisis for Democrats,” said Stein. “Nancy Pelosi was p------. … Members were hot, hot, hot about it. He had to backtrack it. It was just bad. Again, this is not a normal utterance from a committee chairman.”

“But the funnier part of the story,” said Stein, “is how the RNC's digital team has handled it, which is not well.”

“You're a lying piece of s——,” RNC Research told Democrat influencer Harry Sisson. “Here's the full quote: ‘I LIKE OUR CHANCES IN THE MIDTERMS but let me put in perspective only three times in the last hundred years has the incumbent party been successful winning a midterm. We're facing almost certain defeat. The only person who can bring the nose up and help us win is the President of the United States Donald J. Trump.’ F—— loser.”

The same account then attacked the Democratic Party X account, beginning with: “Here’s the full quote you, (sic) scumbags … ”, and they responded to Stein’s own post about Gruters’ statement, starting with “Hey, Jack--- …,” before citing Gruter’s full quote, which Stein says was not a denial.

Then they went after CNN political reporter Aaron Blake, saying “This is fake news — here’s the full quote, scumbag.”

“They really like ‘scumbag,’” Stein added. “Oh, Bill Kristol. They went after Kristol. This is a good one: ‘How much does Harvard charge these days to learn how to report b——? Is Bill being paid by Harvard still? He's a graduate.’”

“I liked what Town Hall did,” said Stein, referring to another Trump subsidiary on X that went into defense mode after Gruters’ admission. “They accused you (Egger) of misstating or misgiving no context to chairman Joe Grutter's quotes, but then they mangled the quote.”

“Yeah, they themselves actually then did mangle the quote,” said Egger.

See the Bulwark podcast at this link.

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Trump is 'going down' as his allies abandon him: conservative icon

Pulitzer-winning conservative columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan has been critical of President Donald Trump, describing him in her latest Wall Street Journal column as a rocket "going down" or "sideways."

Writing Friday, Noonan noticed the shocking new AP-NORC poll showing that Trump's approval on the economy and immigration has “fallen substantially” with just 31% of Americans approving his handling of the economy. It's a nine-point drop since March. His Immigration approval has fallen 11 points, to 38%.

Given the recent off-year losses in 2025, the midterm elections don't appear to be as strong for Republican candidates as they would hope.

"In fairness, 11 months as president is long enough to get on everyone’s nerves—to disappoint your fans and infuriate your foes," Noonan said as a caveat. "But he’s in a fix, surrounded by mood shifts, challenges and bad signs."

While Trump was able to control his GOP base in the past, he's faltering this year. Even one of his closest allies, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has abandoned him. And more Republicans were unwilling to genuflect to Trump following newer Epstein revelations.

Trump's biggest problem, Noonan wrote, is "Once someone makes a successful jailbreak, all the other prisoners know a jailbreak is possible. This changes the conversation in the prison yard. Guards are eyed differently, the warden’s mystique is diminished."

Such is the case of Trump as he enters his second year in office.

Meanwhile, Trump's followers in the states are at each other's throats.

"Outside Washington Mr. Trump’s base is fighting with itself. America First is saying 'I’m not MAGA.' Conspiracists all over: “Israel killed Charlie.” The assassination of Charlie Kirk looks increasingly like an epochal event. Did he understand how much he was holding together the Trumpian right? Without the force of his mediating presence they are cracking up," wrote Noonan.

"People on the ground feel tremors presidents can’t feel," she wrote.

She explained that there are those around Trump who believe he can "reset" everything with a really good speech at the State of the Union Address. Noonan is dubious.

"Maybe," she closed. "Those addresses don’t have the power they once had but still retain some. He might focus on things people are really thinking about—AI, inflation and how Americans in their 30s and 40s can get it together to buy a house and have a baby and keep this whole lumbering thing called America going."

Read her full column here.

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Cute names for Trump's offenses mark an awful new low

Amnesty International’s new report on the U.S. detention sites Alligator Alcatraz and Krome is a warning flare for every American who believes in the Constitution, the rule of law, and the basic dignity of human beings.

We’ve seen governmental cruelty before in our history, but these facilities mark a new level of calculated dehumanization on U.S. soil, and Amnesty is calling it what it is: torture, enforced disappearance, and a deliberate system designed to break people.

What makes this report so chilling isn’t just the details, although they’re horrifying enough. It’s that the government has begun giving these places cute, theme-park-style nicknames like “Alligator Alcatraz” and “Cornhusker Clink,” as if they’re attractions instead of concentration-camp-style black sites.

Authoritarian regimes always begin by softening the language, making the abuses sound like logistics, law enforcement, or processing rather than cruelty. If you want to condition the public to accept state violence, you start with euphemisms.

Investigators found people packed into filthy tents and trailers where toilets overflowed onto the floors and into sleeping areas. Water was sometimes rationed. Food quality was lousy. Insects swarmed at all hours. Lights were left on day and night. Cameras reportedly pointed at showers and toilets, in clear violation of privacy and human dignity.

This wasn’t an accident. These were choices.

The so-called “box” at the Florida concentration camp may be the most grotesque example. It’s a two-by-two-foot outdoor metal cage where detainees, shackled and already vulnerable, were left in blistering Florida heat, exposed to mosquitos and biting flies, denied water, and forced to endure punishment sessions lasting up to 24 hours.

These are exactly the kinds of stress-position torture techniques our nation once condemned when used by dictatorships abroad. Today they’re being used in our name, by our government, on our soil.

At Krome, Amnesty documented prolonged solitary confinement, routine shackling even during medical transport, denial of legal access, and a pervasive system of intimidation and retaliation. Medical care was often delayed or unavailable. People needing lawyers were blocked from communicating with them.

This is not a “processing system”: it’s a punishment regime. It’s brutality done with your and my tax dollars and in our names.

The report makes clear that these are not isolated violations: they’re the design.

This administration has woven cruelty into policy, permitting state-run detention networks to operate as if constitutional rights simply evaporate when you cross a razor-wire perimeter.

The crisis for American democracy isn’t just that the camps exist; it’s that they’re being normalized, bureaucratized, branded, and replicated. Amnesty warns that DHS is already planning more such sites, using “emergency” authorities and no-bid contracts to create an extrajudicial detention network beyond the reach of meaningful oversight.

This is exactly how authoritarian systems evolve. They never begin with political opponents: instead, they begin with people the majority already sees as powerless. Immigrants. Refugees. The poor. Non-citizens. Those without family or money or social standing.

When the public tolerates a government treating one group of human beings as disposable, that system is inevitably expanded to inflict that same treatment on others — dissidents, politicians, people like you and me — whenever it becomes politically useful.

We’ve seen this in nation after nation that slid from democracy into authoritarianism. The first victims are always those considered “outsiders” or “threats to the order” the regime promised to maintain.

Once the public is desensitized to cages, beatings, disappearances, and secret courts, it becomes frighteningly easy to redirect those same tactics toward dissidents, journalists, labor leaders, activists, and political opponents.

This Amnesty International report isn’t just a humanitarian alarm bell: it’s a constitutional one.

When due process is suspended for one class of people, it’s suspended in principle for all. When the government can hide detainees in swamp camps with no legal representation, it’s already established the machinery necessary to detain anyone it wants to silence. When the public is conditioned to see cages and brutality and think “this is fine,” the moral system of a nation starts to collapse.

We forget that the Constitution doesn’t protect itself; it’s protected by norms, culture, public outrage, legal oversight, and a shared belief that the state doesn’t get to brutalize human beings no matter who they are.

When those norms erode, when brutality becomes invisible-but-known or acceptable, authoritarianism doesn’t arrive with a drumbeat. It arrives quietly. It arrives bureaucratically. It arrives through “temporary measures” and “emergency facilities” and “processing centers” set up for “those people over there.”

Amnesty is demanding the immediate closure of Alligator Alcatraz and any similar state-run black sites. They call for an end to emergency-authorized detention, a prohibition on outdoor punitive confinement, the restoration of access to legal counsel, real medical care, due process, judicial oversight, and a halt to no-bid construction of new concentration camps in America.

These aren’t radical demands. They’re the bare minimum for a nation that claims to believe in the rule of law.

Because if we let our government continue to create a network of secretive, cruel, extrajudicial detention facilities for one set of powerless people today, tomorrow it will inevitably turn those same systems against anyone who challenges their power.

That is how every authoritarian regime in history has done it.

And unless we stop it now, it’s how this one will, too.

Trump's favorite CNN pundit gets shut down in exchange over White House ballroom

One of President Donald Trump's most consistent defenders on CNN was recently confronted over his celebration of Trump's bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House.

During the Friday episode of CNN host Kaitlan Collins' show "The Source," Collins discussed the lawsuit filed by a nonprofit group seeking to halt construction of Trump's proposed new $300 million ballroom. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States alleged that the Trump administration illegally shut the public out of the process typically afforded to them when historic buildings undergo significant renovations.

"President Trump’s efforts to do so should be immediately halted, and work on the Ballroom Project should be paused until the Defendants complete the required reviews—reviews that should have taken place before the Defendants demolished the East Wing, and before they began construction of the Ballroom — and secure the necessary approvals," the lawsuit read.

In the panel discussion featuring legal analyst Elie Honig, former Obama administration official Van Jones and pro-Trump pundit Scott Jennings, (who joined Trump onstage at a 2024 campaign rally) the conservative commentator quipped that the group suing Trump over the destruction of the East Wing should feel free to "come over to the White House and pick through the rubble and try to rebuild it," and asserted that "before [Trump] leaves office, that [ballroom] is going to be sitting there legally and procedurally."

"I don't know how it's all going to play out. The man intends to build a ballroom, and I don't know what everybody has against it," Jennings said. "The existing structure was not big enough for what the president needs to do ... When he had his inaugural in the extreme cold in January, they had to do it in the [U.S. Capitol] rotunda! They could have easily done that in something like this. This is a positive thing that he is trying to do for the White House. So how's the paperwork going to go? I don't know, but I promise you they'll be a ballroom sitting there when he leaves office."

At that point, Van Jones interjected and told Jennings that regardless of how much he supports the ballroom, presidents aren't allowed to disregard rules they dislike.

"What we often hear from our Republican friends is, 'I like the outcome, so the process doesn't matter.' That's what happens in an authoritarian country. That's what happens with a dictatorship," Jones said. "It turns out the process does matter in a democracy, rules matter."

"And what if you want to make America great again? How did America get great in the first place? Rule of law. Free markets. Everybody welcome, if you follow the rules. If you have a lawless country, meaning the executive branch does whatever it wants to, you're on the path to being a banana republic," he added. "So ... maybe this big golden ball thing with golden toilets, I have no idea what he's doing. Maybe people will like it, but if it's that great, why not follow the follow the rules?"

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Republicans in populous state can't find candidates to run in midterms

The New York and New Jersey-based outlet Gothamist reports Democratic candidates in the Garden State are clamoring to run in what both parties see as competitive races in next year’s midterm elections. But the same cannot be said for the GOP.

“In a cycle when both parties have their eyes on the House majority, up to a dozen candidates are lining up to run on the Democratic side in key New Jersey congressional races, compared to just one or two from the GOP,” Gothamist reports, as Republicans anticipate “a wave election, and not in their favor.”

“When you have a party that has lots of really good candidates jumping out of the gate and chomping at the bit, that's usually an indication that they think the party has good chances,” said Micah Rasmussen, director of Rider University's Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics. “When you don't see people coming out of the woodwork, that's an indication that the candidates believe that the party is not going to have as good a shot.”

While there’s still time to file for the midterm elections, political experts say that any serious candidate from both parties should have at least hinted at running by now, but the sound is muted over on the GOP team. It’s conventional wisdom to expect the president’s party to struggle in the midterms, but races in the swingy 7th, 9th and 11th congressional districts in North Jersey have few Republican contenders.

In the 9th District, Democratic Rep. Nellie Pou is considered vulnerable, yet Pou has just two Republicans running against her. One has raised just $16,000, according to campaign finance records. The other’s grassroots organization endorsed Pou in the last election. Similarly, New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District is anything but safe for Democrats. Nevertheless, there are 13 Democratic candidates running, and only one Republican. Even New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District — a district Trump won by two points — has nine Democrats challenging its single Republican incumbent.

Dan Cassino, professor of government and politics at Fairleigh Dickinson University, said qualified Republican candidates “are going to bide their time and wait for an election in ‘28 or ‘30 when they think they've got a better chance.”

Kristopher Shields, director of the Eagleton Center on the American Governor at Rutgers University, said putting off a run until a future race can spare Republican candidates from having to align with President Donald Trump.

“… [T]here may be individual candidates who say, 'You know what, I'm comfortable with where I am for now. Let's see where this is all going,'” Shields said.

Read the Gothamist report at this link.

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'You have to be nice': Trump snaps at female reporter in tense exchange

The Daily Beast reports President Donald Trump has insulted yet another female reporter, this time dismissing NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor as “aggressive” and telling her to take it “nice and easy.”

The exchange occurred as the president took media questions after signing a bill awarding congressional medals to the 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team in the Oval Office.

Alcindor initially peppered Trump on the issue of Venezuela, asking if he intended to claim more oil assets from the country, following reports on Wednesday that the U.S. had seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.

“It wouldn’t be very smart for me to tell you that,“ Trump answered. “We’re supposed to be a little bit secretive. You’re a very big-time reporter, and I don’t think I want to tell a big-time reporter, or a small-time reporter, that.”

Alcindor attempted to ask Trump another question roughly seven minutes later, but Trump told her, “Wait, wait, wait. You have to be nice and easy, nice and easy,” before addressing the men standing around him and saying, “She’s very aggressive.”

Trump eventually returned to Alcindor, which gave her the opportunity to ask him a question about the photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate released by Oversight Committee Democrats on Friday. The photos featured Trump and other rich and powerful men like Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and former President Bill Clinton.

“I haven’t seen them, but everybody knew this man,” Trump said. “He was all over Palm Beach, he has photos with everybody. There are hundreds and hundreds of people that have photos with him, so that’s no big deal. I know nothing about it,” Trump replied.

In the past two months alone, Daily Beast reports Trump has called a female reporter “piggy” while telling her to be quiet.

“[He’s] called another female reporter ‘stupid’ three times in quick succession, described another female reporter as ‘obnoxious’ and a ‘terrible reporter’ for asking him about his lethal boat strikes, and threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcast license after fielding a question from the network’s White House Correspondent, Mary Bruce,” the Beast reports.

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Dems sending Trump a 'veiled message' with slow drip of damning Epstein photos: attorney

President Donald Trump's administration has just one more week under a statutory deadline to release all remaining evidence pertaining to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. And Democrats may be using Friday's release of new photos of Trump and Epstein as a way of sending a message to the administration.

That's according to criminal defense attorney Stacy Schneider, who told CNN on Friday that the photos suggest that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee may have some damning photos they're keeping under wraps as a safety measure. Democrats released several dozen photos on Friday, though they represent just a small sample of the approximately 95,000 photos the committee received via a subpoena to Epstein's estate.

Schneider noted that the mere existence of photos of people posing with Epstein doesn't suggest criminal activity, and that none of the people seen in the photos have been charged with crimes. She added, however, that Democrats could be sitting on a trove of photographic evidence that they would release in the event that the Trump administration is not forthcoming enough in next week's expected release of the full Epstein files.

"I believe that the House Oversight Committee was sending a message to the administration, to [Attorney General] Pam Bondi and to the Justice Department, that we've got a stash of evidence and information that we know exists," she said. "And if you play funny business in releasing these files and taking advantage or over-advantage of all those loopholes that they were given in the law to release the files — and not telling the public what's really in there — we have it on this side, on the other side of the other subpoena."

"I think it was a subliminal message, or a veiled message, that we're watching you, and we want to make sure you do the right thing by the public," she added.

Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Trump signed into law in November, the DOJ is compelled to release all remaining evidence from Epstein's two federal criminal investigations from 2008 and 2019 within 30 days, which would be on December 19. However, the law allows Bondi to not only redact victims' names to protect their identities, but gives her final discretion over what to keep under wraps in the name of not jeopardizing ongoing investigations.

The DOJ spent more than $1 million on overtime pay earlier this year for federal agents to comb through the Epstein files, and to flag any mentions of Trump. Epstein's brother, Mark (who has not been implicated in his deceased brother's crimes), said he heard from a "pretty good source" that the FBI was "sanitizing" the Epstein files at a facility in Virginia in anticipation of the files eventually being made public.

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'Talking like a crazy person': GOP hesitant to put 'declining' Trump on campaign trail

Bulwark editor Jonathan Last and former Republican and Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell say Republicans are wheeling President Donald Trump out early to visit Pennsylvania and other states to sell his economic policy because time is running out on his waning charisma.

“We need to talk about Trump’s age … and what it means for the next three years,” said Last, pointing out that the president’s hair is “really thinning” and nobody’s yet figured out how to get bronzer on his “albino white scalp.”

Longwell said Trump’s rapidly declining health and lucidity is going deal a blow to the Republican Party as the nation gears up for the midterms amid Trump’s unpopular economic policies.

“As he goes into these states, he starts talking like a crazy person … about the affordability scam and pencils. … He doesn’t even sound that good,” said Longwell. “The idea of putting him on the trail — the reason they’re doing it now is because he’s declining. They’re trying to get him out there early … and voters are so done with these old candidates.”

“The only way Trump got away with his age was because he was not as old as Biden,” Longwell continued. “You could tell they were roughly the same age … but Trump had big lunatic energy still. That is falling. That is going away. Now he’s doing this thing where he’s waking up in the middle of the night and ripping off 150 [Truth Social] posts at 3 am and falling asleep while Marco Rubio is talking. And it’s happening a lot where he’s napping in the day.”

Last said what will be obvious to voters over the next three years is that the U.S. “won’t really have a president, just a ceremonial head of state with “Stephen Miller trying to get what he can, Marco Rubio trying to get what he can and JD Vance trying to put himself in a position to hold everything together while also trying to figure out if there’ s a way to knife the old man.”

Longwell said Democrats should spend the next year not only thrashing Trump on his economy but also on his declining health.

“Hammering him on his age and the fact that he’s not in control matter a great deal because people hate Stephen Miller,” Longwell said. “They’re mid on JD Vance. There is nobody in the Republican ecosystem that can hold together this wild coalition other than Trump. The red hat is the biggest tent there is.”

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DOJ prosecutors prefer 'face-planting in court' to angering Trump: NYT

Federal prosecutors in President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) are increasingly opting to embarrass themselves in court rather than risk the wrath of the White House.

That's according to a Friday article by the New York Times' Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer, who reported that the DOJ's recent string of public losses are seen as highly uncharacteristic of the federal government. One recent example is the DOJ failing to convince a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), just one week after a separate grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia declined to return an indictment.

"Federal grand juries almost never decline to bring an indictment once, much less twice. Such rejections, known as 'no true bills,' have been exceedingly rare, a misfire that often stigmatizes the prosecutors involved," Thrush and Feuer wrote. "They are becoming more common, and accepted, in a department where face-planting in court might be preferable to facing down the boss."

The same day Trump's DOJ struck out with the Alexandria grand jury, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled that detained Maryland man Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was to be freed immediately, saying the government had no "lawful authority" to keep him in custody. The Trump administration had threatened to send Abrego Garcia to Liberia and Costa Rica, though never followed through on those threats while keeping Abrego Garcia in custody for more than four months.

Former U.S. Attorney John P. Fishwick told the Times that Trump had done himself no favors by aggressively publicizing his efforts to strike back at his political enemies via indictments, which may have soured the public against him.

"I think many of these cases are nationalized for the public and there is a pushback on Trump and his targeting of individuals," Fishwick said. "This is a major shift."

The failures to indict James and keep Abrego Garcia in detention are only the most recent examples. In Washington D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has consistently failed to get grand juries to return indictments of local residents, including a man who threw a Subway sandwich at federal agents. Prosecutors in Chicago, Illinois have also failed to get grand juries to indict Chicagoans arrested as part of the administration's "Operation: Midway Blitz."

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'National embarrassment': Former Indiana GOP gov celebrates 'rebellion' against Trump

Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels — who faced personal attacks from President Donald Trump for opposing a mid-year gerrymander giving Trump two more Republican districts — ended the week celebrating Trump’s defeat in Indiana.

“My state’s Senate, not often the subject of national attention, earned some on Thursday by declining to enroll Indiana in the bipartisan national embarrassment of mid-decade gerrymandering,” Daniels told the Washington Post, adding that Trump-friendly Republican senators appeared to wage “an instinctual rebellion against being ordered around, especially by outsiders.”

“There has been no shortage of that, ranging from a White House-led arm-twisting campaign, including Oval Office wooing and social media name-calling by the president himself, to apocalyptic ads predicting national disaster if Indiana failed to steal one or two congressional seats for Republicans. Then came the now-common promises to launch and lavishly fund primary campaigns against any dissidents,” Daniels said.

The pressure also included so-called swatting of legislators’ homes, calling down police with bogus anonymous tips — and reports of death threats.

“This whole drama flowed from the confluence of two of the most unhealthy trends in today’s politics: The spread of one-party dominance at the state level, and the nationalization of everything,” said Daniels. “Indiana is one of the three-fourths of American states where one party controls the governorship and both legislative houses, and one of the near-half with supermajority control. Politicians accustomed to doing whatever they want in the absence of real competition often overreach.”

But had gerrymandering proponents succeeded, Daniels argues Trump might not have gotten what they wanted. Gerrymandering, he said, can be risky if voters are dead-set against a party.

“It’s not improbable that Republican majorities weakened to send voters into the two target districts, coupled with voter revulsion at the whole process, could have produced a result no better than the status quo,” Daniels said.

A fundamental reality, said Daniels, is that political or legislative majorities “must be earned, not engineered.”

“Many of my state’s senators stood firm for that principle this week, and through this small declaration of independence strengthened the case that their particular majority is one they deserve, and deserve to keep,” Daniels said.

Read Daniels' Washington Post column at this link.

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'Recipe for electoral doom': MAGA civil war breaks out over 'bitter personal feuds'

A MAGA “civil war” is playing out across the right-wing ecosystem, sapping attention from the ideas that once powered the base and held GOP leaders to power. Now, the movement appears more consumed by infighting than achieving political goals.

MAGA is being drained of “its political muscle, leaving it defenseless as the Trump administration revisits policies previously opposed by the base,” according to Axios. The strength of MAGA “lies in its ability to rally influencers, politicians and activists behind a hard-charging conservative agenda.” But that “superpower is faltering amid a cascade of bitter personal feuds.”

The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief Raheem J. Kassam told Axios, “There’s no focus on anything philosophical or even ideological right now.”

“It’s all just a cacophony of grifters tussling over audience and ego,” Kassam said. “So, corporate America gets to wield power with the admin virtually unencumbered by scrutiny from the base.”

Serving up a series of examples, Axios reported that on issues such as artificial intelligence, marijuana, Venezuela, and redistricting — all of which “would have triggered significant MAGA backlash” earlier — there has been “mostly crickets.”

Trump reportedly will loosen federal regulations on marijuana soon — an act that once would have attracted MAGA influencers to scream about “pothead culture,” Axios noted. This time, however, the news “barely made a ripple on right-wing social media.”

The “America First” president seizing a tanker loaded with Venezuelan oil and refusing to rule out boots on the ground to overthrow the Maduro regime “barely pinged on MAGA’s radar.”

MAGA influencer CJ Pearson told Axios that “the movement is wholly consumed right now on personality clashes. That is a recipe for electoral doom, and it’s unfortunate to see the unity that we saw after Charlie [Kirk]’s death dissipate so quickly.”

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'Catastrophe': Trump economy kills 1 in 3 jobs in deep-red Nebraska town

Residents of Lexington, Nebraska are panicking after the town's largest employer announced it would be shutting down operations early next year.

MS NOW reported Friday from Lexington — the seat of Dawson County, Nebraska, which Trump easily carried with more than 74 percent of the vote last year. Meatpacking company Tyson employs 3,200 people in Lexington, though they will all be out of a job come January 20th, when the plant is shutting down.

"Have you ever been in a place where you can just feel the pain and the anxiety? That's what it feels like being here in Lexington, Nebraska," MS NOW reporter Rosa Flores said. "... People have described to me what's happening here by using the words 'catastrophe,' 'crisis,' the feeling of being 'collateral damage,' 'hurt,' 'anxiety,' 'agony.'"

Local business owners told Flores that sales started to plummet the moment Tyson announced it was closing the plant. Many business owners are immigrants who made the money to launch their businesses by working at the Tyson plant.

"There's another business here to my left, down the street. That woman says that people have gone into her store sobbing," Flores said. "Her sales immediately dropped 10 to 20 percent right after the announcement."

Reuters reported earlier this month that Tyson was closing the Lexington plant due to cattle supplies hitting a 75-year low in 2025. A small supply of cattle increases production costs for hamburgers and steaks. Cattle ranchers have seen dwindling herds due to drought reducing the supply of land capable of feeding cattle.

Nebraska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn, who is running against Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) next year as an independent, accused Tyson of manipulating the market by shuttering the plant. He asserted that Tyson was "destroying five percent of America’s beef processing capacity" given how much cattle gets processed annually at the Lexington plant.

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Republicans walking into 'historic buzzsaw' by defending hated Trump policy: conservative

National Review senior writer Noah Rothman said Republicans appear to be resigned to “a drubbing in next year’s midterm elections” by blindly following President Donald Trump.

Public opinion on Trump’s economy and his tariffs is crashing, “and that’s just the pro-Trump right,” warned Rothman, citing pro-Trump Republican National Committee chairman Joe Gruters.

“There’s no sugarcoating it,” said Gruters. “It’s a pending, looming disaster heading our way.”

But Rothman complained Gruters was acquiescent to that outcome, arguing “no matter what party is in power, they usually get crushed in the midterms.”

“Gruters is wrong about that,” Rothman insisted. “The GOP’s fate is not written in the stars. The party in control of all the levers of power in Washington has agency and purpose — it is the master of its own destiny. Republicans are simply choosing not to do anything to better their political circumstances.”

Rothman called the downward trend in the president’s numbers “consistent and alarming.”

“And Republicans are alarmed. But that’s about it,” Rothman said. “If the sentiment abroad within the GOP ecosystem is any indication, that sense of trepidation is translating not into resolve but resignation.”

While Trump has few tools to shape the economic landscape, Rothman said he could at least indicate that he has “heard the public’s disquiet and is attempting to meet them in the middle by abandoning his mulish affinity for tariffs.”

“Even if he only telegraphed his willingness to pare most of them back, it would send a signal to the public that would at least boost consumer confidence. But Trump is not doing that. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine Trump giving up on a policy in which he evinces near-religious faith. So, with Trump presumably immovable, Republicans are sauntering languidly into a historic buzzsaw,” Rothman said.

But it doesn’t have to be this way, he said.

“Republicans are not destined for disaster. But so long as they regard the president’s bizarre predilections as forces of nature that they must make peace with, they will traipse into an electoral disaster that could set the tone for the remainder of the decade — handing the reins over to a Democratic Party that is increasingly favorably inclined toward socialism,” Rothman said.

“What the GOP can do — what it must do — is evince some basic political survival instincts,” he continued. “If self-preservation is too much to ask, the GOP and its voters deserve the disaster that is now visible on the horizon.”

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