More successful economic populists within the Democratic Party can help other Democrats revive their brand with an appeal that rouses voters.
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As Shutdown Wears On, Trump’s Getting Blamed
There haven’t been any shutdown talks for a week, just public posturing. Both sides think they are winning the shutdown, giving them no reason to initiate talks rather than just wait for the other side to buckle.
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Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. For decades, many Democratic pundits and strategists have had a simple answer for how the party could win: move to “the center.” Just look at Bill Clinton: After three consecutive routs in presidential elections from 1980 to 1988, Clinton ended […]
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Governors Plunged Into Constitutional Crisis
As members of Congress scanned the skies for signs of bipartisan intervention amid an imminent government shutdown, the governor of Illinois called for President Trump to be removed from office. Though invoking the 25th Amendment was a rhetorical flourish—no executive-branch Republican would ever entertain the idea—JB Pritzker wasn’t finished. Last Friday, at a fundraiser for […]
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To Win the Shutdown, Democrats Need a Big Switch
Democrats have positioned the shutdown as about health care, which is very easy for Republicans to dismiss.
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The ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ Phase of the Shutdown
These haphazard funding cuts and firings will only continue, because they are manifestly not tied to a shutdown
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The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months
Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.
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Left, Right, and Free Speech
With the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk, the right pretends to champion free speech while the left supposedly promotes censorship. It’s a classic Big Lie.
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The Art of the Budget Deal
Today on TAP: With a government shutdown looming on Wednesday, will Trump screw Democrats, Republicans, the public, or himself?
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Why Winning Is Bad for Democrats
Oh, you want life to get better now, do you? Do you even understand politics?