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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
How regime change happens in America
The defense secretary is signaling a major shift.
Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is not triumphant but pathetic.
They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.
The key criteria for those in the top-tier positions appear to be loyalty, wealth, and ideological fervor, not competence.
If the president gets his way, the strong, not international lawyers, will write the rules.
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?