The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Republicans are Following a Key Part of Hitler's Playbook: Lying Your Way into Power
What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
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The Media is Aiding and Abetting Donald Trump's Rise Just As It Did for Hitler
Like Hitler, Trump has a unique command of propaganda, a captivating public presence, and he knows how to drive home narratives beneficial to him and harmful to his enemies.
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Democracy is flatlining around the globe. A second Trump term would finish the job
Trump’s brand of hyper-nationalism combined with the intense consolidation of executive power follows the same playbook as fascistic leaders in other countries like India,Russia, Hungary, Turkey, Egypt, Italy and Argentina, among others.
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The Threat of Republican Fascism, Part II: The War on Fair Elections
It isn’t hyperbole to say that 2022 will be the year where Americans decide whether we want democracy or authoritarianism.
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Sedition caucus mimics Trump’s worst sin: Demolition of content—legal, moral, democratic or electoral
The party of primitive deplorables, thinking it too could play with fire, is facing an outraged majority. Too bad it took so long.
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The worst president
“On Jan. 20, we can still presume Trump will be gone from the White House.”
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Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro: This Rightwing Coronavirus Troika Fails to Respect Human Life
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
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What Democrats and Progressives Can Learn from Louisiana’s Gubernatorial Election
Democrat John Bel Edwards recently won in a state that Trump carried easily in 2016 by following a progressive playbook: energize black voters and rely on high turnout.
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An Invitation to Crisis: Loosening the Volcker Rule, Regulators Court Disaster
This is how financial crises begin – with subtle, incremental regulatory changes that few notice when they occur but which can have calamitous consequences when taken to their logical extreme.
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Trump-Linked U.S. Christian ‘Fundamentalists’ Pour Millions of ‘Dark Money’ into Europe, Boosting the Far Right
A dozen American groups have poured at least $50 million of dark money into Europe over the last decade, backing "armies" of ultra-conservative lawyers, political activists and far right parties themselves.
