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- GOP Strategist Admits He Colluded with Russian Hackers to Hurt Hillary Clinton, Democrats
Alternet, March 26, 2017 Republican political operatives were working with the Russian government to hurt Hillary Clinton and Democrats during the election — the first direct evidence of so-called collusion. The Wall Street Journal reported that hacked information was posted on a blog run by Aaron Nevins, the political operative, and then passed along to top Trump adviser Roger Stone during the campaign. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-alleged-russian-hacker-teamed-up-with-florida-gop-operative-1495724787
- History Rhymes, Democracy Wobbles
Suzanne Mettler, Political Scientist, Former Fellow, and Coauthor of Four Threats, Warns of Unheeded Lessons in Brutal Past
- Indictments, convictions, prison sentences of federal officials
The scorecard for recent Democratic and Republican administrations
- Mann and Ornstein - Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.
Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, Washington Post, April 27, 2012 Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. This essay is adapted from their book “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism.”
- Max Boot - How the ‘Stupid Party’ Created Donald Trump
How the ‘Stupid Party’ Created Donald Trump Max Boot, NY Times Opinion, July 31, 2016 Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, was a foreign policy adviser to the presidential campaigns of John McCain, Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio.
- MaybeTrump knows his base better than we do
Fareed Zakaria Opinion writer, The Washington Post, November 30, 2017 Watching the Republican tax plan race through Congress, one is reminded of a big apparent difference between President Trump’s program and other populist movements in the Western world. In the United States, Trump is leading something that is best described as plutocratic populism, a mixture of traditional populist causes with extreme libertarian ones.
- Paul Ryan Keeps It All in the Family
David Remnick, The New Yorker, May 17, 2017. Based on a Washington Post report by Adam Entous describing a meeting in June, 2016, on Capitol Hill, at which Republican Party leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, gathered to talk business. (Article has link to Washington Post transcript.)
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- Right On: Scholars point to continuing strength of conservatism in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Paul Massari, Harvard Gazette, Feb 22, 2021
As the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Skocpol has spent much of the last decade studying the American right. The former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Skocpol, PhD ’75, partnered with Vanessa Williamson, PhD ’15, in 2012 on The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, a book that explored the grassroots activism, wealthy advocacy groups, and media ecosphere that enabled the rise of the right in the wake of President Barack Obama’s election. Today the two see the links between the Tea Party and Trumpism and say that, while Democrats may have taken the White House, the election of 2020 demonstrates that the right will remain a force in American politics in the years ahead.
- The Republican Hypocrisy Hall of Fame
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Opinion, May 25, 2017 Patriots like Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have eloquently warned of the importance of ferreting out the truth and holding politicians accountable, including for leaking classified information. Thank God for their insistence on truth-seeking!
- Voting Restrictions Are Further Politicizing U.S. Electoral System, Journalist Says
May 27, 2021
Terry Gross interviews NY Times reporter Nick Corasaniti says Republican-led state legislatures are restricting voting and seizing more power over how elections are run — making previously non-partisan jobs political (includes transcript).