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Michael Tomasky

Michael Tomasky

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We’re Entering a World Where the Rule of Law Is Turned Inside-Out

I was busy ignoring politics and focusing on college football Saturday, so it was only around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, when I was sleeplessly scrolling...

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Michael Tomasky

How Did the Law Never Catch America’s Most Lawless President?

If you had told me a year ago that Donald Trump was going to skate away from all the legal trouble he was in, I would have laughed in your face. I was...

27.11.2024 60

New Republic

Michael Tomasky

The Smarter Anti-Trump Resistance: More Facts, Less Outrage

In yet another “how could this be?” moment for liberals and Never Trumpers of all stripes, we’re now seeing polls on the president-elect’s...

25.11.2024 10

New Republic

Michael Tomasky

Does the Gaetz-to-Bondi Transition Count as a Win? Maybe. For Now.

You know the old leftist phrase “the worse, the better”: It’s said to date to the early days of revolutionary Russia, and it means that the...

22.11.2024 5

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Michael Tomasky

Trump Is Testing the Senate. And Guess Who’s Going to Win That One?

I’m taking bets that Matt Gaetz will indeed be confirmed as our next attorney. I know all the clever people say otherwise. NBC News, in a story you...

18.11.2024 8

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Michael Tomasky

Why the Democrats Have Been Making the Same Mistake—for 44 Years

Having lived now through four particularly stinging Democratic presidential election defeats as an adult (1980, 2000, 2016, and 2024), I can tell you...

11.11.2024 20

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Michael Tomasky

Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?

I’ve had a lot of conversations since Tuesday revolving around the question of why Donald Trump won. The economy and inflation. Kamala Harris...

08.11.2024 100

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Michael Tomasky

Latino Men Were the Big Defectors—but They Weren’t the Only Story

How in God’s name did the Democrats lose yet another election to Donald Trump , after defeating him somewhat comfortably four years ago? If you go...

06.11.2024 40

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Michael Tomasky

Donald Trump Has Lost His Sh*t

I woke up Saturday morning, as you may have, to the sight of Donald Trump performing fellatio on a microphone (no, I’m not linking to it). The clip...

04.11.2024 30

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Michael Tomasky

Men Are Hopeless, but Don’t Worry: Women Will Save America. As Usual.

At closing argument time, it turns out that Donald Trump is making Kamala Harris’s closing argument. What is it? That women should not vote for him....

01.11.2024 10

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Michael Tomasky

If You’re Being Fatalistic or Panicking, You Are Helping Donald Trump

The psychological differences between liberals and conservatives are an important and underexamined aspect of politics. Never are they more...

28.10.2024 50

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Michael Tomasky

The Best Reason for Calling Donald Trump a Fascist? Easy: He Is.

What the hell is this “debate” about whether Kamala Harris should call Donald Trump a fascist? It’s too … what? Too aggressive? Too in your...

25.10.2024 4

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Michael Tomasky

Republicans Are Cheating. Again. But Now It’s Worse Than Ever.

How Republicans win presidential elections, according to Republicans: We are the party of middle American morals and values, and the Democrats are the...

21.10.2024 30

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Michael Tomasky

Democrats Are Enthusiastic About Harris—but Don’t Tell the Media

18.10.2024 5

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Michael Tomasky

Democrats Are Enthusiastic About Harris—but Don’t Tell the Media

18.10.2024 3

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Michael Tomasky

Immigration? Inflation? Nope—Trump’s Advertising Is Mostly Anti-Trans

15.10.2024 6

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Michael Tomasky

The Media Has Three Weeks to Learn How to Tell the Truth About Trump

14.10.2024 30

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Michael Tomasky

Trump at Madison Square Garden: Is He Kidding? Yes. And No.

11.10.2024 5

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Michael Tomasky

“We Have Some Building to Do”: Aimee Allison on Turnout

No group will likely be more important to a prospective Kamala Harris victory than women voters of color. And to take their collective pulse,...

08.10.2024 6

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Michael Tomasky

The Media Is Finally Waking Up to the Story of Trump’s Mental Fitness

If things go the way I hope they go in this election, it may well turn out that Sunday’s terrific New York Times piece by Peter Baker and Dylan...

07.10.2024 9

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Michael Tomasky

Good for Liz Cheney. Now Where Are Mitt Romney and George W. Bush?

If you know anything about the founding and history of the Republican Party, the symbolism of Thursday’s event where Liz Cheney appeared with...

04.10.2024 10

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Michael Tomasky

Oops, They Did It Again: The Mainstream Media Buries Trump’s Outrage

It’s a pretty sad commentary on the way our mainstream media cover Donald Trump that if you really want to know what Trump said at a given rally,...

30.09.2024 5

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Michael Tomasky

The Most Important Thing for Harris Isn’t the Economy. It’s This.

Kamala Harris’s economic vision speech (delivered in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, a mere two days after yours truly wrote that she needed to give an...

27.09.2024 4

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Michael Tomasky

“We Gotta Keep the Vibes Up”: Two Pennsylvania Experts Speak

25.09.2024 8

New Republic

Michael Tomasky

Don’t Get Psyched Out! Trump Is an Evil Buffoon, Not an Evil Genius.

There are six weeks to go now, and as we enter the home stretch of this election year, I think it’s crucial for all of us to remember something....

23.09.2024 6

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Michael Tomasky

Donald “Blame the Jews” Trump Is Truly Losing His Sh*t Now

It was billed as an antisemitism event, and, well, I guess it was, ultimately, although not in the intended sense. The phrase “antisemitism event”...

20.09.2024 30

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Michael Tomasky

Laura Loomer Isn’t Trump’s Achilles Heel. She’s a Whole Achilles Leg.

Remember back in the spring when the conventional wisdom was that this Trump campaign was a highly polished operation? Chris LaCivita and Susie Weil,...

16.09.2024 10

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Michael Tomasky

Trump and Laura Loomer: Mainstream Media, He’s Just Taunting You Now

I know some people don’t like to play the “Imagine If!” game, but at times it’s hard not to wonder, “Imagine if Joe Biden had said the crazy...

13.09.2024 10

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Michael Tomasky

This Was the Beginning of Donald Trump’s Final Unraveling

Let’s cut to the chase: “I have concepts of a plan” was the defining moment of this debate and is going to go down in presidential debate lore...

11.09.2024 100

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Trump Has One Debate Strategy: Try to Get America to Hate Harris

Kamala Harris’s momentum has slowed just a bit. It’s still real. She’s still leading in the polls by around three points, even though we all had...

09.09.2024 20

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Trump Serves Up a Word Salad That The New York Times All But Ignores

For months, Donald Trump’s frequent lapses into incoherence —the half-sentences that suddenly veer off toward a distant galaxy, the asides that...

06.09.2024 4

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Michael Tomasky

The Media Are About to Help Trump Fail His Way Back to the White House

If you’re lucky, you missed this one. I was not so fortunate, and so, this Labor Day weekend, I found myself staring at what is probably the worst,...

03.09.2024 80

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Michael Tomasky

Donald Trump Has Totally Jumped the Shark

I got an email Thursday morning from a dear old friend of mine. He lives in Virginia. He’s a Democrat who was never susceptible to Donald Trump’s...

30.08.2024 4

New Republic

Michael Tomasky

“There Are Several Efforts”: Bill Kristol on Republicans for Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris has, for now, turned the presidential race around. She entered the contest five weeks ago inheriting Joe Biden’s...

29.08.2024 7

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Michael Tomasky

The DNC: Walking on Sunshine

Chicago, city of the famously big shoulders, is also one of wide, flat, long blocks. If you’re a New Yorker or a Washingtonian, and I tell you some...

29.08.2024 10

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Michael Tomasky

Finally, the Democrats Have Found Trump’s Achilles Heel: Ridicule Him

Donald Trump is in free-fall. Read this description from Sunday’s Washington Post of how the GOP nominee spent last week: “[A]ides did not...

26.08.2024 300

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The Female Obama? No. Kamala Harris Is More Than That.

For the last 20 years or so, a tension has defined the Democratic Party. There has been a party that has been looking forward; and there has been a...

23.08.2024 40

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Michael Tomasky

The Democrats Are Destroying the Republicans at Their Own Game

Being a liberal means complaining about the Democrats. It’s as axiomatic a law of life as the fatalism of Red Sox fans. More specifically, it means...

22.08.2024 5

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Michael Tomasky

Women Stole the Show on Night One of the Democratic Convention

Fine, it went on a little long, especially for those of us in attendance. But night one of the Democratic convention was (almost) never boring and was...

20.08.2024 7

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Michael Tomasky

Harris Is Sailing, Trump Is Flailing, and the Right Is Bailing. Wow.

For a Sunday before the Democratic convention, the headlines could hardly have been better from the Democrats’ perspective. “Harris Holds Slight...

19.08.2024 5

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Michael Tomasky

Donald Trump Has No Idea What Has Hit Him, and It’s a Joy to Watch

It continues. Six days ago, The New York Times ran a story under the headline “Inside the Worst Three Weeks of Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign.”...

16.08.2024 5

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Michael Tomasky

Donald Trump Is Freaked Out in Ways He Never Imagined Were Possible

The Harris-Walz campaign proved two important things last week. First, it proved that sometimes all you really have to do is answer attacks—the mere...

12.08.2024 100

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Michael Tomasky

The Tim Walz Nod: Caving to the Left? No. Reaching Into the Heartland.

Let’s start with Tim Walz’s positive attributes. One: He’s an extremely successful two-term governor—in fact, he’s almost certainly the most...

06.08.2024 30

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Michael Tomasky

The Crucial Week Is Here. Can Kamala Keep This Crazy Enthusiasm Going?

It was impossible to predict the explosion of relief, enthusiasm, and sense of mission that has greeted Kamala Harris’s presumptive—and now, as of...

05.08.2024 10

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Michael Tomasky

The Race the Democrats Need to Run Now

What a stunning summer. A debate that rocked the political world as no other debate has in the history of presidential campaigns. An assassination...

25.07.2024 20

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Michael Tomasky

Kamala Harris Has Two Superpowers, and That’s All She Needs

People will start sizing up Kamala Harris as a possible presidential candidate here in the next few seconds, and I imagine we’re going to hear some...

22.07.2024 30

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Michael Tomasky

Joe Needs to Go, but the Party Must Placate Those Biden Loyalists

Every media feeding frenzy is built around a narrative that completely snuffs out the counternarrative. In this case, three weeks now after President...

19.07.2024 4

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Michael Tomasky

“You Fix It”: Stuart Stevens on Sticking With Joe Biden

Regular cable news viewers will know that Lincoln Project consultant Stuart Stevens has been steadfast in arguing that the Democrats should stick with...

17.07.2024 20

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Michael Tomasky

The Trump Shooting: The Most Shocking Act of a Shockingly Violent Age

The attempt on Donald Trump’s life is obviously a horrendous development. It seems unique because he’s a presidential candidate and one of the...

14.07.2024 20

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Michael Tomasky

Democrats: “He Was Better Than the Debate” Is Not Remotely Good Enough

Joe Biden had many lucid moments at his Thursday evening press conference, but the idea that we’re going to judge Biden day by day on the latest...

12.07.2024 4

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