Former Missouri senator John Danforth said he has revisited his 1999 report since learning about the Trump rally in Waco and noticed similarities between the rhetoric of Mr. Trump and the conspiracy theorists of the 1990s.
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Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholic Republicans must denounce Donald Trump’s meeting with antisemites
As a Catholic and a Republican, I can say without a doubt that Nick Fuentes does not represent the values of either group.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Will Trump defy another rule of politics? Comebacks (usually) require asking for forgiveness.
Let us all pause to imagine Donald J. Trump saying, “I can only ask your forgiveness” to anyone.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘The Good Fight’ is the show we should all be watching right now
“The Good Fight” is ending its run by ramping up the surrealism—and the idea that we are all living in a very real political nightmare.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Republicans and Democrats agree that democracy is in trouble. They just don’t agree on its definition.
Republicans were as likely as Democrats to say that democracy is in trouble. Does this mean we have achieved a consensus without realizing it?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Kellyanne Conway’s Catholic girlhood and my own
Mary Gordon finds that her childhood and that of former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway were strangely similar—and yet diverged in telling ways.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Why Biden’s speech on MAGA Republicans failed
The Democrats and never-Trumpers are obsessed with the loud and visible element of Trump voters who can never be persuaded. They should be focused instead on those who could be.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
This doctor just gave the pro-life movement its post-Trump playbook
It is time for pro-lifers to abandon the nose-holding, smash the MAGA idol and find a different way.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
The Jan. 6 riot shocked Americans. Maybe it shouldn’t have.
The us-them thinking of modern Trumpist populism is nothing new. Americans have been responding to duress with xenophobia and anti-government narratives since the country’s founding.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Trump tried to break the American story. The Jan. 6 hearings let us tell it again.
These hearings are an attempt to reassure us all that the American story we were taught as kids is not some fairytale that adults told us to help us sleep or to make us easier to manipulate.