Tag: Republican Party
How Marjorie Taylor Greene Raises Money by Attacking Other Republicans
When Marjorie Taylor Greene first entered politics, she was hardly a natural at fund-raising. She was the owner of a CrossFit gym—and a construction company that was founded by her father—before she successfully ran for a congressional seat in suburban Georgia in 2020. To help fund her campaign, Greene put up about $1.4 million of her own money. Then, almost as soon as she had won, a national scandal broke out about her long record of bizarre, violent, and antisemitic
The G.O.P.’s Election-Integrity Trap | The New Yorker
Last week, while Trump sat in a courtroom in downtown Manhattan, and Biden campaigned in Scranton by bringing reporters to see his childhood home, several dozen members of Pennsylvania’s Bucks County G.O.P. met for a hot-dog party at the American Legion post in Doylestown. Scott Presler, a MAGA activist and former leader of Gays for Trump, who has been travelling the country registering voters—and encouraging them to vote early—pulled his waist-length brown hair into a ponytail and took the microphone
Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About Whether Trump Is a Fascist
Shaw could have emphasized even deeper roots. According to “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law,” by James Q. Whitman, the Nazis got some of their worst ideas from us; “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” by Isabel Wilkerson, dilates on the resemblances between the Nuremberg laws and anti-miscegenation laws in Texas and North Carolina; “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism,” by Rachel Maddow, quotes Hitler telling an American reporter, in 1931, “I regard
The John Birch Society’s Return to CPAC
Michael Smart chuckled as he thought back to their banishment.
Truthfully he couldn’t say for sure what the problem had been, why it was that in 2012, the John Birch Society—the far-right organization historically steeped in conspiracism and opposition to civil rights—had found itself blacklisted by the Conservative Political Action Conference. “Nobody knows the official reason, because they don’t tell you that,” Smart, a field coordinator for the group, told me.
He has theories, of course. Perhaps the Birchers’ unapologetic
The New American Nihilism – The Atlantic
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Several years ago, the political scientist Michael Bang Petersen, who is based in Denmark, wanted to understand why people share conspiracy theories on the Internet. He and other researchers designed a study that involved showing American participants blatantly false stories about Democratic and Republican politicians, such as Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump. The subjects
The Party of Malice – The Atlantic
You knew it was coming.
As soon as former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley emerged as the main threat to Donald Trump in the battle for the Republican nomination, it became inevitable that she would be targeted by him. Any front-runner would do the same thing. But Trump did it with his typical touch.
Last week Trump reposted on his Truth Social account a conspiracy theory that Haley, who was born in South Carolina, was not qualified to
Nikki Haley Could Surprise Us
On Monday, Iowa voters will choose their Republican nominee for president while the rest of us wait. Repeated polls have shown that Donald Trump has an “overwhelming lead” in the Iowa caucus, despite the fact that he will be in and out of court facing various civil and criminal charges in the weeks leading up to the vote. But he is not the sure winner. Between Iowa and the following handful of primaries, there is still a narrow window to
The House Republicans Who’ve Had Enough
House Republicans didn’t exactly have a banner year in 2023. They made history for all the wrong reasons. Last January, they presided over the most protracted election for speaker in a century, and nine months later, for good measure, lawmakers ejected their leader, Kevin McCarthy, for the first time ever. Last month, the House expelled one of its own, George Santos, for only the sixth time.
The rest of the year wasn’t any more productive. Thanks in part to
Trump Is Becoming Frighteningly Clear About What He Wants
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In 2019, Kennedy Ndahiro, the editor of the Rwandan daily newspaper The New Times, explained to readers of The Atlantic how years of cultivated hatred had led to death on a horrifying scale.
“In Rwanda,” he wrote, “we know what can happen when political leaders and media outlets single out certain groups of people as less than human.”
Ndahiro
For Biden, It’s Time to Triangulate
Why are President Joe Biden’s poll numbers so bad?
Is it because of interest rates? Inflation? Crime? The border?
Is it because he’s too progressive? Not progressive enough?
Whatever your theory, it should take into account a curious coincidence: how closely Biden’s approval numbers have tracked the numbers from former President Barack Obama’s first term. Obama’s numbers slumped in the second half of his third year, 2011. In the middle of that October, his disapproval number reached 41 percent, not