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The Trailer: "Reopen" didnt move votes in 2020. What about now? David Weigel In this edition: The deja vu politics of “open the schools,” the reckonings back home for Republicans who voted to convict Trump, and the return of David Perdue. Its time for a national conversation on how to use “crossing the Rubicon” correctly, and this is The Trailer. © Jae C. Hong/AP California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at a joint state and federal coronaviru...

The party belongs to Trump for as long as he wants it.

President Biden toured a Pfizer facility on Friday as the drug maker announced positive developments on its vaccine. Meanwhile, the White House has a new timeline to vaccinate students.

On Friday, Politico’s Tim Alberta published a long profile of former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley worked for Donald Trump but is also the kind of Republican who appeals to the national press because she can be polite, polished, and not outwardly delusional during television appearances; Alberta is sort of the establishment D.C. media’s envoy to the modern right-wing grassroots movement—while he deplores its full turn toward conspiratorial violence, he retains...

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT: We cons will be fine and we’ll win in the end, but it’ll take time and hard fighting ( Am I allowed to say “fighting” in the political struggle context anymore, or will stupid people wet themselves? Let’s find out!). Sure, I may be in the minority among conservatives by saying that. There’s a lot of fear out there, a lot of pessimism, and a lot of muttering about how we’re all doomed. We’re not. Now, all righteous and cool people acknowledge that the best W...

Nikki Haley Breaks From Trump in Interview About a Potential Run for President Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley in a recent interview broke from Trump, criticizing his actions in relation to the Jan. 6 incident at the Capitol. Haley, in a lengthy profile interview with Politico focused on her former boss and a possible run for the presidency in 2024, said that she does not believe Trump will run for federal office again in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, telling Politico, “I don’t t...

The United States is under the most duress weve seen since the Civil War, the recent president is being tried in the Senate after a mob stormed the Capitol and killed at his direction, a pandemic is raging, and what are the Republicans worried about? How to preserve and strengthen their own political futures! Ha, ha! You gotta admire those cockroach-like instincts: 120 anti-Trump Republicans are in talks to form a center-right third party that would run on principled conservatism, report says |...

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said Republicans needed to acknowledge former President Donald Trump failed the party by contesting the 2020 presidential election that ended in a riot on Capitol Hill. Because of the chaotic ending to...

A strong strain of elite impunity runs through American politics.

Former Ambassador Nikki Haley declared ex-President Donald Trump politically dead in a new interview, saying he can't possibly run for federal office again.