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This week: "Trump Blurts Out Real Reason for Insurrection Act Threat—and It’s Dark" Plus, Minneapolis is showing Democrats how it’s done; Trump’s sad and seedy Davos performance; Trump’s ICE goons detained a 5-year-old; and more ...

 
 

Trump Is About to Find Out What Every Bully in History Has Found Out

Last year, Trump had a lot of people scared. But there are good—and encouraging—reasons to think that this year will be different.

By Michael Tomasky

 

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Abigail Spanberger’s First Move as Virginia Gov. Was a Masterstroke

Even moderate Democrats can be boldly anti-MAGA. Other centrist Democrats should follow her example.

By Perry Bacon

 

The Supreme Court Just Got Caught in Its Gun Rights Contradictions

The high court ruled that gun restrictions must pass a "history and tradition" test to be valid. Then the state of Hawaii called its bluff.

By Matt Ford

 

Trump’s ICE Goons Detained a 5-Year-Old. Then JD Vance Made It Worse.

Much of the media is treating the vice president’s Minneapolis visit as an attempt to lower the temperature. If anything, he raised it.

By Greg Sargent

 

Who Are the AWFULs? Trump Hates Them, So They’re Doing Something Right

They’re affluent, white, female, urban liberals—and the murder of Renee Nicole Good will politicize millions of them.

By Molly Jong-Fast

 

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The Key to Minneapolis’s Successful ICE Resistance

The city’s rapid mobilization against ICE was aided greatly by a community with well-worn connections and a tradition of mutual aid. You can—and should—start building this resilience where you live.

By Ana Marie Cox

 

Trump Takes His American Decline Tour to Davos

In a sad and seedy music-hall performance, a senile autocrat rages against the dimming of his country’s light, as well as his own.

By Timothy Noah

 

From Breaking News:

Trump Embarrasses All of America in Slurred, Disjointed Davos Speech

By Malcolm Ferguson

Here Are All the Democrats Who Voted to Keep Funding ICE

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

ICE Agents Violently Arrest Black Corrections Officer

By Hafiz Rashid

 

Here’s Your Damn Playbook, Democrats

Party leaders can’t seem to process that Trump’s policies are in fact staggeringly unpopular. Minneapolis is showing politicians how it’s done.

By Aaron Regunberg

 

Trump Blurts Out Real Reason for Insurrection Act Threat—and It’s Dark

By Greg Sargent

Do President Trump’s advisers actively want him to act like a dictator? At the very least, there’s plainly a deep split inside Trumpworld on this question. As deranged as it seems, one faction clearly believes Trump absolutely should project unconstrained tyrannical power, to frighten ordinary voters and institutions into compliance, while another faction thinks acting like a Mad King risks a huge electoral rebuke and, by extension, that normal political patterns still apply.

 

You can see this tension in Trump’s ugly new comments about invoking the Insurrection Act, which would empower him to use the military for domestic law enforcement. Lately he’s suggested that he might not invoke it after all. And in an interview flagged by Aaron Rupar, Trump said this again.

 

Jack Smith Reminds Us: Aileen Cannon Is Still Destroying America

The special counsel’s team prepared a detailed report about Trump’s theft of 300-plus classified documents. Guess who has blocked its release to the public?

By Michael Tomasky

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