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On Starving Tyranny
Now is not the time for Jeffries or any other Democrats, especially Senate Democrats, to go weak in the knees over shutdown politics.
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The President's List of Subversives
Week by week and step by step, Trump is creating his own list of "subversives"--organizations, individual people, even entire American cities.
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For Senate Democrats, The Moment Of Truth Is At Hand
Senate Democrats must internalize the reality of the existential threat Trump represents to the survival of the constitutional Republic and then act accordingly.
Government shutdown
Just Shut It Down
If you're a member of the United States Senate in 2025, you don't keep writing checks to the guy who's in the process of actively destroying a 250-year-old experiment in representative government.
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Trump: Roman Strongmen Trifecta Personified
The Roman example serves as a cautionary tale: their republic didn't collapse in a single moment but through a gradual erosion of institutional constraints and normative boundaries over decades.
Donald Trump
Trump's Very Own "Führerprinzip"
The demand for absolute obeisance to Trump is well understood by the already GOP controlled House of Representatives.