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Why Trump won: Democrats have a coalition, Republicans have an ecosystem
Americans preferred the vice president’s policies, but her campaign messaging was overwhelmed by a titanic far-right ecosystem that Democratic elites…
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Matthew Sheffield
CNN’s Ryan Girdusky fiasco is part of a much bigger problem in mainstream media
By obsessively trying to have ‘balanced’ discussions, mainstream television news keeps platforming extremists
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Matthew Sheffield
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Have Kamala Harris and Tim Walz learned from Democrats’ mistakes?
As the Republican party has become increasingly radicalized, its refugees have made Democrats more conservative, and less successful electorally
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Matthew Sheffield
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Between the memes: J.D. Vance and the reactionary mind
Rather than transcend the evil he once experienced, J.D. Vance has decided to embrace it
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Matthew Sheffield
The cult of constitutional law has been a complete and utter failure
Judges have always been legislators in black dresses, and the liberal legal establishment's failure to understand this has been devastating
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Matthew Sheffield
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The ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ and the long history of right-wing rebranding
For nearly a century, Republicans have been pretending to be the ‘real liberals’
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Matthew Sheffield
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Republicans can no longer hide their extremist viewpoints from the public
The original ‘big lie’ of American politics is that Democrats are just as ‘extreme’ as Republicans
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Matthew Sheffield
Ronna McDaniel and the problem of ‘Fictitious Republicans’
The Republican party has become an authoritarian cult and mainstream journalism should stop pretending otherwise
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Matthew Sheffield
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Trump super fans are impossible to argue with because they don’t actually believe in logic
The far-right worldview is incomprehensible until you realize that devotees believe truth flows from authority rather than reality
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Matthew Sheffield
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