Tag: Trump
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Ukraine is the biggest and most consequential of all the American betrayals
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in GeneralAs the war enters its fifth year, it’s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lost. “The question of how this war is going to end is actually an existential question for Europe,” said Wolfgang Ischinger, chair of this month’s Munich Security Conference. “It…
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Bannon: With MAGA Maximalism, The Civil War Will Play Out Inside The Democratic Party
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in GeneralThis is the age of Trump. He’s totally redefined politics and power in America with no political training because he was a populist and nationalist at the moment when populist nationalism was needed to stop the managed decline of the country by the elites,” Bannon said. “Does he need a third term to see that…
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Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way
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in GeneralThe fentanyl story is based on an argument about history: The United States went from greatness to crisis because open-border Democrats betrayed the honest, hardworking people of America by exporting jobs and allowing in foreign drugs. Stopping the drugs, Mr. Trump wants us to believe, will let the wholesome, traditional American culture that he idealizes…
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Trump announces new auto tariffs in a major trade war escalation
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in GeneralThe move didn’t come as a huge surprise to automakers. An executive at one of the automakers, who spoke on background to CNN on Wednesday, said they had already been working with the assumption that auto tariffs would take effect next week. “We were all kind of expecting April 2 to be our day,” said…
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Barrett, footnote 2, or Why Mr. Smith should stay in Washington
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in GeneralAcross the history of Supreme Court opinions, some cases are known more for a footnote than for a holding. If the nation is lucky, Jack Smith will follow the cue in footnote 2 of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s concurrence in Trump v. United States, allowing us to forget the mess that is the rest of that…