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“There Are Limits”: Yes, A Backlash To Conservative Extremism Is Possible
I think it’s safe to say that the single greatest source of frustration to progressives today is the relatively small price the Republican Party appears to be paying for the extremism that has gripped...
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“A Massively Failed Experiment”: Why Conservatives Learned Nothing From Sam...
Kansas governor Sam Brownback had a plan when he got elected in 2010, and it was a plan that could only be enacted in a place like Kansas: Pass huge tax cuts, then watch the state transform into a kind...
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“Stigmatizing The Poor”: New GOP Lie: Food Stamps on Cruise Ships
The headlines are sensational: Kansas bans welfare recipients for spending food stamps on cruise ships. Kansas will make sure welfare queens can’t get their palms read on the Caribbean. The new law...
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“The Only Officers Who Would Have A Problem Are Bad Officers”: Do Police Have...
In Gardena, California, south of Los Angeles, three police officers killed an unarmed man, shooting him eight times, and shooting a second, seriously wounding him. They said the men were suspected of...
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“A Voter-Fraud Witch Hunt In Kansas”: Voters Could Be Charged With A Felony...
In fall 2010, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach held a press conference alleging that dead people were voting in the state. He singled out Alfred K. Brewer as a possible zombie voter. There was...
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“Voodoo, Jeb! Style”: Mr. Bush Imagines That He Is Privy To Secrets That Have...
On Monday Jeb Bush — or I guess that’s Jeb!, since he seems to have decided to replace his family name with a punctuation mark — finally made his campaign for the White House official, and gave us a...
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“Voodoo Never Dies”: Never Forget That What It’s Really About Is Top-Down...
So Donald Trump has unveiled his tax plan. It would, it turns out, lavish huge cuts on the wealthy while blowing up the deficit. This is in contrast to Jeb Bush’s plan, which would lavish huge cuts on...
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“The Time-Loop Party”: The ‘Foxification’ Of The GOP, Saying And Doing The...
By now everyone who follows politics knows about Marco Rubio’s software-glitch performance in Saturday’s Republican debate. (I’d say broken-record performance, but that would be showing my age.) Not...
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“On Invincible Ignorance”: The G.O.P.’s Intellectual Leader Is Still Making...
Remember Paul Ryan? The speaker of the House used to be a media darling, lionized as the epitome of the Serious, Honest Conservative — never mind those of us who actually looked at the numbers in his...
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“Real Incremental Progress Is Happening In Blue States”: State...
It’s often easy to become discouraged at the state of national politics. Given Republican control of the House, there’s very little chance of either Clinton’s or Sanders’ policy priorities going...
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“They Haven’t Learned Yet”: Republican’s Love Affair With Voodoo Economics
In a moment of sanity, George HW Bush once called Ronald Reagan’s proposal for tax cuts “voodoo economics.” The idea was that tax cuts for the wealthy would somehow “trickle down” to the rest of us and...
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