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Sidney Blumenthal

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Trump’s inauguration was a glimpse of what is to come

Trump’s inauguration was a glimpse of what is to come
26.01.2025 8

The Guardian

Sidney Blumenthal

Donald Trump isn’t even in office yet and silly season has already begun

Donald Trump isn’t even in office yet and silly season has already begun
13.01.2025 20

The Guardian

Sidney Blumenthal

Trump’s cabinet picks are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance

“Shock” suddenly became the most commonly uttered word in habitually nonplussed Washington DC. After Donald Trump had attempted to subvert the...

20.11.2024 30

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Sidney Blumenthal

Trump ducked criminal charges – right into the most powerful office in the world

Donald Trump’s most vital campaign did not involve his political consultants, the hysteria of his rallies, the paranoid TV spots about migrant...

12.11.2024 20

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Sidney Blumenthal

Donald Trump’s freakshow continues unabated

Donald Trump’s threat to execute Liz Cheney, “with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her”, is the apogee so far of his...

02.11.2024 90

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Sidney Blumenthal

We are witnessing the making of a fascist president in real time

“But stupidity is not enough,” wrote George Orwell in 1984. The facts must be eliminated. “Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of...

28.10.2024 200

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Sidney Blumenthal

A week before the election, Trump will hold his most unsettling spectacle yet

For the apotheosis of his entire “poisoning of the blood” campaign, Donald Trump has planned a spectacular extravaganza in Madison Square Garden...

18.10.2024 100

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Sidney Blumenthal

What does JD Vance really believe?

The world is on fire, but in Washington DC topic A is Olivia Nuzzi. Her suspension as a writer for New York Magazine for sharing “demure” nude...

14.10.2024 20

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Sidney Blumenthal

Trump and his allies are whipping up a whirlwind of lies about the hurricanes

Whipping up hurricanes to merge with great replacement theory took hardly a week, about the time it takes for hurricanes themselves to form. The...

10.10.2024 20

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Sidney Blumenthal

Donald Trump’s Hitlerian logic is no mistake

If genealogy is destiny, as Donald Trump believes, then “poison in the blood” – a phrase Trump repeatedly uses – determines the fate of...

07.10.2024 200

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Sidney Blumenthal

Trump and Vance’s Springfield smear is a microcosm of their entire campaign

After Donald Trump’s disastrous debate with Kamala Harris on 10 September he decided to center his campaign on a single incendiary issue: “In...

20.09.2024 70

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Sidney Blumenthal

Donald Trump is deeply threatened by Kamala Harris – and desperately flailing

“Kamala, you’re fired!” shouted Donald Trump. Then he pleaded: “You’re fired. Get out. Get out. Get out, Kamala!” The crowd cheered at his...

04.09.2024 20

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Sidney Blumenthal

Donald Trump is desperate to land a punch on Kamala Harris. But he fails

The madness of King George III was never diagnosed. He likely suffered from bipolarity. One of his uncontrollable bouts of madness was triggered by...

14.08.2024 20

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Sidney Blumenthal

Trump once seemed invincible. Then Kamala Harris broke the spell

“It’ll begin to end when the act gets tired and the audience starts walking out,” Warren Beatty, a perspicacious observer, told me eight years...

06.08.2024 20

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Sidney Blumenthal