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The Atlantic The Moral Inversion of the Republican Party
Republicans are at risk of being devoured by the forces they placed in control.
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OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP / Getty Republicans Own This Insurrection
Responsibility for the storming of the Capitol extends well beyond Trump.
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Samuel Corum / Getty Some Republicans Have Finally Found a Line They Won’t Cross
The GOP needs leaders who will distance their party from the wreckage and the ruin the president has brought.
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Ryan Christopher Jones / The New York Times ... The Unbearable Weakness of Trump’s Minions
Senator Josh Hawley isn’t just engaging in civic vandalism—he is an emblem of a weak and rotten Republican Party.
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Dominick Reuter / Getty Trump Is Losing His Mind
The president is discussing martial law in the Oval Office, as his grip on reality falters.
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Damon Winter / The New York Times / ... Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy
The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture.
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Lorenzo Meloni / Magnum Choose Repair, Not Revenge
Stop obsessing over Trump, and begin the hard work of rebuilding.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Biden May Be Just the Person America Needs
A president should connect with who we are, but also make us better than who we are.
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Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Evangelicals Made a Bad Bargain With Trump
People of faith should embody moral and intellectual integrity.
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Getty / The Atlantic Now Comes the Reckoning
The tragedy is that during his presidency, Trump has broken much of America.
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Jim WATSON / AFP / Getty How to Win a Debate With a Bully
Joe Biden should simply name what is true and what most Americans intuit about the president: He is a terribly broken man.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why Trump Supporters Can’t Admit Who He Really Is
Nothing bonds a group more tightly than a common enemy that is perceived as a mortal threat.
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Leon Neal / Getty Donald Trump Is a Broken Man
In another time, in a different circumstance, there would perhaps be room to pity such a person.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Cost of the Evangelical Betrayal
White, conservative Christians who set aside the tenets of their faith to support Donald Trump are now left with little to show for it.
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Getty Listening to Robert F. Kennedy
Can the late politician’s words help us through the current moment?
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Spencer Platt / Getty The Malignant Cruelty of Donald Trump
The president is defaming the memory of a woman who died nearly 20 years ago—and inflicting pain upon her family today.
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Rob Kim / Getty / The Atlantic Jonathan Haidt Is Trying to Heal America’s Divisions
The psychologist shares his thoughts on the pandemic, polarization, and politics.
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Win McNamee / Getty The President Is Unraveling
The country is witnessing the steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition of Donald Trump.
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Jason Connolly / AFP / Getty The Party of the Aggrieved
The pandemic has revealed the animating forces of the Republican Party in the age of Trump.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty The President Is Trapped
Trump is utterly unsuited to deal with this crisis, either intellectually or temperamentally.
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