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Meet the Ideologue of the “Post-Constitutional” Right
Russell Vought, one of the architects behind Project 2025, believes there is nothing left to conserve. He desires revolution – and to burn down the…
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Thomas Zimmer
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Elite Acquiescence and Treacherous “Normalcy” All Around Us
What are the reasons behind the pervasive tendency among ostensibly anti-MAGA elites to accommodate authoritarian power and preemptively signal…
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Thomas Zimmer
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Why the Second Trump Regime Will Be Far More Dangerous
This will be a much more radical regime – and it will operate under conditions that are vastly more favorable to its extremist cause
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Thomas Zimmer
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Why the Stakes in this Election Are So Enormously High
Democracy itself is on the ballot. If Trump wins, the extreme Right will be in a much better position than ever before to abolish it
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Thomas Zimmer
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October 2024

September 2024

How Project 2025 Became Toxic and Exposed the Right’s Toxicity
The public history of Project 2025 reveals a lot about how Trump understands power - and how the mainstream discourse (mis-) understands the extreme…
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Thomas Zimmer
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Blood and Soil
The Right is committed to an idea of America as a white Christian homeland. They are determined to purge the nation and radically redraw the boundaries…
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Thomas Zimmer
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Liz Cheney and the Problem of the Anti-Trump Republican
Republicans who hold the line against Trump deserve respect. But champions of egalitarian, pluralistic democracy they are not - and that also matters
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Thomas Zimmer
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