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The Nunes memo is looking like a bust for Trump

If President Trump was looking for the Nunes memo to be a silver bullet that would undermine the Russia investigation, he’d better keep looking. A new Quinnipiac University poll — the first full high-quality poll conducted almost completely after the Nunes memo’s release Friday — shows very little change in […] Read more »

Nunes’ real revelation: Trump is changing the GOP, not the other way around

The real message of the memo released last week by Rep. Devin Nunes assailing the FBI and Department of Justice is that Donald Trump is changing the Republican Party far more than it is changing him. The memo from Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, failed to deliver revelations […] Read more »

This is the week that the GOP truly became the party of Trump

This was the week when the Republican Party finally went all in with President Trump. What once seemed unlikely is now reality. The Republican establishment — there are a few dissenting voices, of course — has succumbed to the power of the presidency, and this president in particular. This coming […] Read more »

Why The Nunes Memo Probably Won’t Do What Trump Wants It To

Public opinion on the Russia investigation has been pretty stable all year — Republicans are skeptical but Americans overall support it. It’s hard, therefore, to see the much-hyped “Nunes memo,” which Trump declassified and congressional Republicans then made public on Friday, changing all that much. CONT. Perry Bacon Jr., FiveThirtyEight […] Read more »

Here’s Just How Little Confidence Americans Have In Political Institutions

Trust in the institutions that have been the pillars of U.S. politics and capitalism is crumbling. That is one finding from the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, which shows that Americans have limited confidence in its public schools, courts, organized labor and banks — and even less confidence in big business, […] Read more »