They are a distinct minority in their own party and, for that matter, their country: Republican holdouts amid an ever-widening consensus that Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine poses a mortal threat to American interests. A far right wing of the Republican Party tightly bound to former President Donald Trump is […] Read more »
Ron DeSantis follows the Trump playbook ahead of 2024
… If we’ve learned anything from the last two presidential cycles, it’s that free media is worth a lot in presidential primaries. Trump got a historic amount of free media attention in 2016, and now-President Joe Biden led the pack for free media on the Democratic side during the 2020 […] Read more »
Building on anti-mask activism, far-right groups pivot from mandates to midterms
… Extremism trackers say the past two years of fighting pandemic restrictions have given far-right groups a new generation of recruits and a blueprint for taking the lead in conservative organizing. The midterm season, they warn, brings a heightened risk of political violence, as armed groups build on those gains […] Read more »
Will the war in Ukraine change America’s political landscape?
The war in Ukraine has unsettled American politics. The degree to which it is changing American politics is the more consequential question for President Biden and the Democrats. Russia’s brutal and unprovoked aggression against its sovereign neighbor has refocused the world. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become a figure of […] Read more »
Why Republicans are excited about a culture war they know they’re losing
… For some time, PRRI has asking Americans about same-sex marriage, laws protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination, and allowing businesses to refuse service to LGBTQ people because of their religious beliefs. The top-line results could hardly be clearer: In the latest data, 68 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, 79 […] Read more »
‘We Want People That Are Going to Fight the Left,’ Says the Man Out-Trumping Trump
Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, is giving Donald Trump a run for his money as the most divisive politician in America. “We want people that are going to fight the left, and that’s what we need to do in this country,” DeSantis declared in an interview with Fox […] Read more »