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Jackie Calmes: Why does the Republican Party have a death wish?

From top to bottom, at all levels of government, the Republican Party is on a tear to epitomize the timeless truth of 19th century Britain's Lord Acton: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Los Angeles Times

Abortion bans raise fears inside GOP about backlash in 2024

Leading Republicans are struggling to navigate the politics of abortion as they concede — publicly and privately — that the GOP’s anti-abortion policies are unpopular with the very voters they need to win the presidency

The Independent UK

Jonathan Bernstein: Why isn’t Trump’s polling lead discouraging GOP challengers?

Judging by opinion polls, Donald Trump looks to be the overwhelming favorite for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the clear alternative. But news this week from South Carolina suggests that Republicans aren’t nearly as sold on Trump as the polling suggests.

Tribune News Service

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Thomas' gifts unprecedented in US judicial politics

Hayden Thorne breaks down the latest Clarence Thomas scandal and the problem of integrity in American politics

Newsroom.co.nz

Republicans are a mess right now, and voters know it. Does the party?

The GOP is internally divided, filled with self-serving carnival-barkers, and beholden to cruel positions that appall most voters

The Guardian - US

Same world, different planet: Trump’s arrest lays bare US polarization

Reactions to the former president’s court appearance on hush money charges were diametrically opposite depending on political persuasion

The Guardian - US

Florida removes book about Anne Frank from school libraries

A conservative Florida parent censorship group complained about the book titled “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation”

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Lynn Schmidt: The Pence-Trump divide defines today's Republican Party conundrum

Maybe it is because I am preparing to launch one of my children off to college, but I have been thinking a lot about inflection points in life. The Republican Party is also at one of those points. The party, like my daughter, needs to decide what it wants to…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Kari Lake, Marjorie Taylor Greene bank on defending Trump to boost their political fortunes

PALM BEACH, Fla. — As supporters awaited former President Trump at Mar-a-Lago after his Tuesday arraignment, Kari Lake walked into a ballroom of people cheering and chanting her name.

Los Angeles Times

Trump isn’t the ringmaster he once was. But we’re still watching his show

Despite everything, Trump now seems more likely to secure the Republican nomination. He’s still the sun around which the Republican party orbits

The Guardian - US

Every indictment will make Trump stronger – and Republicans wilder

Rupert Murdoch, the Koch network and other rightwing power brokers know the monster they created is now out of control

The Guardian - US

Jonathan Bernstein: Republicans could regret attacking Trump’s indictment

As soon as the indictment of Donald Trump was revealed Thursday, prominent Republicans lashed out against Alvin Bragg, accusing the Manhattan district attorney of bringing a groundless and politically motivated case against the former president.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis fights for Everglades as he neglects climate crisis

One night in mid-February, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the stage at the Breakers in Palm Beach to brag about how much he’d done for the environment.

Tribune News Service

The Observer view: Donald Trump deserves to face the full force of justice

The United States was founded on the rule of law. It must not now flinch from upholding it

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Salon

Can Biden move the GOP on guns?

As the violence continues, simply pointing fingers at Congress isn't enough. This should be Biden's big moment

Salon

Paper tiger: Trump neutralizes DeSantis

The Florida governor has been caught flat-footed by Trump's barrage of attacks

Salon

Now Trump threatens Armageddon

Trump vows a "final battle" against his "enemies" — the message to his followers could hardly be clearer

McClatchy Washington Bureau

With contempt for ‘corporatists,’ DeSantis pitches GOP voters on the power of the state

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis uses his new political memoir to describe how he views the future of the Republican Party, and he’s making a bet that most conservative voters are ready for it.

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‘It’s all about trolling’: how far-right influencers are shaping Republican narrative

With the old media order losing ground, a new cadre of extreme voices has emerged, precipitating a GOP shift to Maga populism

Salon

Putin and the GOP: Masters of deception

Americans no longer share a common reality — but can we all agree that Donald Trump's just in it for the grift?

The Week

Are US Republicans going soft on Ukraine?

How far the Republican Party has fallen, said David French in The New York Times. Forty years ago this month, Ronald Reagan stood up for Western values in the face of “an expansionist, aggressive Soviet Union” by giving what became known as his “evil empire speech”.

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Democratic Party committees lead Republicans in cash on hand for the 2024 election cycle

As of Feb. 28, 2023, the end of the most recent campaign finance reporting period, three committees associated with the Democratic Party have $60 million in cash on hand, while three committees associated with the Republican Party have $39 million in cash on hand.

Salon

Fox News viewers still love their lies

Republican voters, party leaders, and propagandists share a fundamental belief: That the truth doesn't matter

Los Angeles Times

Mark Z. Barabak: From red bastion to blue bulwark: What the political shift in Colorado and West means for the US

DENVER — Kevin Priola was a Republican before he could even vote.

Tribune News Service

Q&A: GOP freshman class president Russell Fry talks dad jokes, new House Republicans and Trump

WASHINGTON — South Carolina freshman Russell Fry came to Congress by beating Rep. Tom Rice, one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

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