Scott Stossel
@stossel.bsky.social
National Editor, The Atlantic. Author of My Age of Anxiety and Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver. Bostonian in DC.
Trump "'is so fragile that he builds this simulacrum of strength...It looks strong, and it’s enforced by other people thinking it’s strong. But if you actually got in a physical fight with Donald Trump, you’d kick his ass.'”
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The Democrats Aren’t Built for This
They say they want to save democracy. First they’ll need to get out of their own way.
www.theatlantic.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Trump "'is so fragile that he builds this simulacrum of strength...It looks strong, and it’s enforced by other people thinking it’s strong. But if you actually got in a physical fight with Donald Trump, you’d kick his ass.'”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
"'If I was bullied as much as these Republicans are by President Trump and his followers, I would be so ashamed to see my family.'”--Senator Ruben Gallego
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Democrats Aren’t Built for This
They say they want to save democracy. First they’ll need to get out of their own way.
www.theatlantic.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:23 PM
"'If I was bullied as much as these Republicans are by President Trump and his followers, I would be so ashamed to see my family.'”--Senator Ruben Gallego
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
“'You cannot credibly tell the American people that democracy is in danger and the world is ending, and the people that you are putting up on the front lines of fighting back against that genuinely belong in a nursing home.'”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Democrats Aren’t Built for This
They say they want to save democracy. First they’ll need to get out of their own way.
www.theatlantic.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:19 PM
“'You cannot credibly tell the American people that democracy is in danger and the world is ending, and the people that you are putting up on the front lines of fighting back against that genuinely belong in a nursing home.'”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
"Huge numbers of American fundamentalists and evangelicals...prefer the MAGA Jesus to the real Jesus. Few of them would say so explicitly, though, because the cognitive dissonance would be too unsettling. And so they have worked hard to construct rationalizations"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus
Trump is causing incalculable damage to the Christian faith, yet most evangelicals will never break with him.
www.theatlantic.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
"Huge numbers of American fundamentalists and evangelicals...prefer the MAGA Jesus to the real Jesus. Few of them would say so explicitly, though, because the cognitive dissonance would be too unsettling. And so they have worked hard to construct rationalizations"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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