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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 7h

Bari Weiss Still Thinks It's 2020

She co-founded The Free Press as a bastion of liberalism in an illiberal time. Her arrival at CBS is paved with excuses for illiberal friends.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller Lays Out the Plan in Public

The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong

The party’s progressives seem to think the problem is not with their platform but with voters.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 12d

The Emptiness of Attacking Critics for Their Hypocrisy

It’s hard to defend crackdowns on free speech. It’s easier to simply claim everyone’s doing it.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 15d

Stephen Miller Wants America Even More Divided

In the White House aide’s view, violent rhetoric is allowed only when he and Trump are the ones spewing it.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 19d

Trump Just Undercut His Defenders

Conservatives rushed to exonerate the president from the charge of censorship. He swiftly contradicted them.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 20d

Trump Opposes Political Violence Only When It Comes From the Left

Charlie Kirk’s assassination was a tragedy. It is also an opportunity for conservatives who hope to silence their political rivals.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 26d

Leading Democrats Are Condemning Charlie Kirk’s Murder

Why is the online right having such a hard time recognizing that?

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 27d

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Trump’s Dangerous Response to the Kirk Assassination

Rather than condemning violence and calling for unity, the president of the United States accused his political opposition of being accessories to murder.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 27d

Trump’s Dangerous Response to the Kirk Assassination

Rather than condemning violence and calling for unity, the president of the United States accused his political opposition of being accessories to murder.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · 29d

The Intellectual Vacuity of the National Conservatives

The post-liberal American right set out to destroy the guardrails that restrained anti-Semitism, without giving any thought to what might happen next.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Epstein Letter Is Real, and It’s Bad

The president’s initial strategy of denying that the document exists leaves him with few options now that it has been made public.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Wrong Way to Win Back the Working Class

Automatic deference to labor unions has not paid off for Democratic politicians.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Sep 1

wow, nice seats!

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Aug 29

MAGA Has a New Favorite Slogan

Donald Trump and his allies would like to remind you that “no one is above the law.”

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Aug 11

This Isn’t About Crime

Donald Trump’s plans for Washington, D.C., are a warning to us all.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Aug 8

So Much for the ‘Best Health-Care System in the World’

Republicans used to trumpet the innovation of the American medical sector. Now they’re taking a meat axe to it.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Aug 5

The ‘Blood Libel’ Libel

Conflating all criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism only makes the problem of real anti-Semitism worse.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Aug 1

Trump’s Self-Defeating Authoritarian Gambit

Firing the government’s statisticians over bad jobs numbers won’t make voters any happier with the economy.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Jul 28

The Trump administration’s claim of an Obama–era plot to make up that Russia had intervened in the 2016 election was “its latest and most comically desperate attempt to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal,” Jonathan Chait argues.

Trump’s Desperate Move to Quiet the Epstein Scandal

The president tries to distract his followers with revisionist history about the Russia investigation.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Jul 28

Trump’s Desperate Move to Quiet the Epstein Scandal

The president tries to distract his followers with revisionist history about the Russia investigation.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Jul 23

Trump’s Epstein Denials Are Ever So Slightly Unconvincing

The president is not behaving like an innocent man with nothing to hide.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Jul 22

What Trump’s Feud With Jerome Powell Is Really About

The president doesn’t think the Federal Reserve chair is bad at his job. He objects to the job itself.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Jul 16

The Only Conspiracy Trump Considers Boring

Trump’s theory of the Epstein case is fanciful. But it isn’t dull.

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Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait.bsky.social · Jul 14

Trump’s Brainwashing Powers Are Finite

The president is trying to change the narrative on Jeffrey Epstein. The MAGA faithful aren’t buying it.

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