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"They will fail through incompetence": Trump's bumpy return to office should worry MAGA

"We are also seeing the acceptance of a degree of corruption that has little equal in American history"

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Trump's first week: "Designed to destroy the United States from within"

Trump's first week:

America is "trapped in the ugly nexus of an abusive leader" who can't be satisfied — but must be confronted

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"Just as bad as we feared": Experts on the chaos and carnage of Trump's first week

Trump's first-week performance was calculated, expected — and highly traumatic. What happens next will be crucial

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Surviving "political grief": You're not alone, and there is a path forward

Surviving
27.01.2025 30

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"We must save ourselves": America's crippling cynicism helps Donald Trump

"Millions of Americans don’t feel our democracy can deliver for them"

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It's time to ditch toxic social media platforms

It's time to ditch toxic social media platforms

To survive Trump's return, Dr. Gail Christopher heeds, "we must practice disciplines that calm our nervous system"

21.01.2025 5

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Hope is at the heart of "healthy mourning": Finding positivity while grieving Donald Trump's return

Hope is at the heart of

Dr. Gail Christopher on the "balance of positive thoughts to trigger positive emotions"

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Democrats' defeat leads to "demobilization and surrender" ahead of Trump's inauguration

Democrats' defeat leads to

"Immediate action will be required to slow down Trump's 'shock and awe' campaign"

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"Small acts of resistance": Retooling "what protecting democracy looks like" in a second Trump term

A conversation with Virginia Kase Solomón, president and CEO of Common Cause, ahead of Donald Trump's inaugaration

15.01.2025 6

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"There will be no rebuilding": Bracing America for the implementation of Project 2025

Donald Trump's return to power further undermines America's self-image of greatness

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The week Donald Trump became a great man of history

It came via the Democrats' opening act of submission

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"The entertainment of MAGA infighting" is a trap

On Monday, Donald Trump was officially certified by Congress as the winner of the 2024 Electoral College vote. Vice President Kamala Harris, who...

08.01.2025 4

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Hard lessons the opposition has learned in defeat

I recently purchased a 2025 calendar from the local dollar store. I am marking each day on the calendar with a big “X” as I count down the next two...

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"I refuse to be trolled": How to resist Trump and maintain peace

American democracy and society have been sick for a long time. Donald Trump’s election to the White House in 2016 was a symptom and not the cause...

06.01.2025 4

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A glossary for a second Trump term

2024’s Words of the Year reflect the anxieties, brokenness and the larger crisis of meaning that gave birth to Donald Trump’s return to power in...

27.12.2024 5

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Why Democrats can't get over the grief of losing to Donald Trump

Following their trouncing by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in the 2024 election, Democrats continue to plod through the stages of grief,...

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"Trump has no real mandate for what he is planning": The push for Christian nationalism may backfire

Donald Trump has promised to be a dictator on “day one” of his administration. Based on his already-announced plans and those in process, Trump,...

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Reversing the "weaponization of Christianity": How "religous freedom" can be used to fight Trumpism

Donald Trump’s role as the country’s first white president is obvious and omnipresent. He campaigned on white identity politics, racism and...

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Democrats face America's new self-evident truths

In a perfect world, Democrats would have a leader who lives and leads by the principle that “the buck stops here.” Unfortunately for the...

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Democrats' grief is Donald Trump's best tool of distraction

The Democratic Party is still licking its wounds after being badly beaten by Donald Trump and his MAGA movement in the 2024 election. Here are some...

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When facts no longer matter: 3 key steps to return to civil dialogue

Donald Trump will become the next president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2025. Although some have deluded themselves into thinking the...

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America's addicted to the “destruction narrative”

The Age of Trump is a symptom of much deeper and older problems in American society and life. Specifically, how there is a deep brokenness and...

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Where is the fierce urgency of now?

The Trump train keeps on rolling. The so-called resistance is still in shock if not prematurely surrendering. Some among the mainstream news media...

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Democrats need to take the working class seriously and literally

The Democrats, mainstream news media and other political watchers are continuing with their postmortems of the 2024 election. Many remain confused...

04.12.2024 6

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Why Democrats seem so disconnected from what voters want

Nearly one month later, the Democratic Party and the pundits and other politics experts are continuing to study the wreckage of the 2024 election....

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Picking through the debris of the 2024 election, Democrats are left soul searching

Democrats and the mainstream news media are still sorting through the wreckage of the 2024 election, seeking some insight into why and how Donald...

27.11.2024 3

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A "roadmap" for "hope, resistance and reconstruction" in a second Trump presidency

Donald Trump’s rise to power as an elected authoritarian was not preordained or an act of destiny. Since at least 2016, there have been multiple...

26.11.2024 3

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Before Donald Trump destroys it, Democrats must "re-envision what democracy needs to be"

Donald Trump is quickly consolidating and expanding his power. Trump has promised to be a dictator on “day one” of his administration. Trump has...

25.11.2024 3

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The path forward for progressives is a return to PR basics: Put personality before policy

Donald Trump’s plans to remake American society is not incremental or gradual. Trump, his advisor and agents are attempting to impose a...

21.11.2024 1

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How Democrats can move past "low-dominance messaging"

Donald Trump is moving very quickly with his “shock and awe” plans to rule as an autocrat who views multiracial pluralistic democracy and its...

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The epic challenge of a second Trump era: providing safe harbor for MAGA regrets

President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA regime have promised revenge and retribution against a range of targeted groups such as the Democrats,...

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The ultimate answer to why Donald Trump won: White Christians

The Democratic Party, the mainstream news media, and the political class are conducting a political autopsy of the 2024 Election and how Trump and...

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Trump's win was "an epic failure of every major institution" — especially the media

Donald Trump and his MAGA movement steamrolled Kamala Harris and the Democrats. Although the final vote totals will be fairly close, Trump won all...

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Fake nostalgia and skillful propaganda got us here — but there's hope on the other side

The American people have made a clear choice: They elected Donald Trump as the next president, and have given control of the U.S. Senate, and...

13.11.2024 30

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Readjusting to Trump's America

In both my head and my heart, I knew that Donald Trump and MAGA were going to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats. For the last...

12.11.2024 2

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The illusion of Donald Trump and the fourth founding of America

I have been chronicling the Age of Trump for more than eight years. It has caused great harm to our individual and collective emotional, spiritual,...

06.11.2024 2

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MAGA's last stand: A duel between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in diametrically opposite Americas

The 2024 presidential election is one of the most important — if not the most important — in the country’s history. Today the American people will...

05.11.2024 3

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Dr. John Gartner on how Harris hit Trump's weak spot: He "is now using a very limited vocabulary"

On Tuesday, Kamala Harris delivered a speech from the Ellipse in Washington, DC. This is the same location where Donald Trump incited his MAGA...

04.11.2024 2

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Don't laugh off Donald Trump's blue state strategy

When Donald Trump announced that he would hold late-stage rallies in the blue states such as New York and California the reactions by the...

01.11.2024 10

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Why Donald Trump is obsessed with Kamala Harris' IQ

Donald Trump is continuing to dig way down into his nasty bucket of racism and hate, grab the mess in his hands, and then smear it all over...

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Trump on Joe Rogan's podcast leaves Kamala Harris with a winning opportunity

America’s social order has changed. There is a growing amount of economic and financial precarity, and previously marginalized groups are no longer...

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"They’re being called to save the country": Jackson Katz on how MAGA masculinity sells men purpose

America’s gender troubles helped to spawn the Age of Trump and the democracy crisis we currently face. Fascism is coded as a masculine political...

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Why "playing it safe" could lead to disaster for Kamala Harris and the Democrats

When Joe Biden made the historic decision in July to step aside as the Democratic Party's 2024 nominee, Donald Trump was clearly taken off guard....

22.10.2024 3

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"Call it his Outreach to Incels Tour": How Kamala Harris can disarm Trump and win back momentum

When President Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris in July she immediately changed the momentum of the 2024 election and...

21.10.2024 10

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"Thirst for the spectacle of Trump’s cruelty": Exploring MAGA's unbreakable bond

Donald Trump is a very successful hate merchant. What Trump is selling his MAGA political cultists — the racism, bigotry, nativism, xenophobia,...

18.10.2024 30

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"Femiphobia" motivates MAGA males: Psychologist Stephen Ducat on the gendered tribalism of Trumpism

At this point, with fewer than three weeks until Election Day, warning the American people that the election is an existential matter for the...

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The end of Trump's impunity: Kamala Harris goes directly after his strongest selling point

Donald Trump and his MAGA movement are currently at the epicenter of political violence in the United States. Trump has created a type of...

16.10.2024 2

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“Brain flaws”: Understanding MAGA as an epidemic disease

The American people are being smothered by public opinion polls. Every day there seems to be some new poll expected to give precious insight into...

15.10.2024 3

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The age factor election: "A vote for Trump could easily be a vote for a President Vance"

With less than a month to go until Election Day, the American people and the world will soon find out if the epic that is the Age of Trump is about...

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"Traumatized by Trumpism": The toll of outrage fatigue on MAGA

Nothing about this is normal. On Saturday, Donald Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, and held a rally at the same location where he survived...

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