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In the final weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency, many of the swamp leeches who’d spent four years attached to him focused on leveraging their parasitic bond to power for as much cash as possible before January 20. One such hanger-on was Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union and husband to former top Trump communications aide Mercedes Schlapp. Matt Schlapp has built his influence in part by directing ACU’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference essentially the Panama City Beach spring break for College Republicans trying to get laid, Comic-Con for people who LARP as military operators, and Coachella for Fox News fans dying to see their favorite TV acts live. It’s through CPAC that Schlapp has gotten plenty of face time with Trump. The former president spoke at the conference every year of his term, including in 2019, when he used Schlapp’s main stage in National Harbour, Maryland, to make one of his longest speeches on recor ....
President Joe Biden has hit the ground running this week, taking aim at the most noxious and nonsensical of his predecessorâs policies through executive action, trying to get a handle on the long-neglected coronavirus pandemic, and working to change the culture in the Washington from the petty, reflexively partisan chaos Donald Trump cultivated to something more measured, results-oriented, and high-minded. His challenge? A Republican Party that appears to have little interest in harmony, let alone atonement, and that has made clear, in the opening days of the Biden administration, that it very much remains the party of Trump. Indeed, for as fast as Biden got to work after his inauguration Wednesday, Republicans have moved just as quickly to try to obstruct him and to rally behind their old leader, who has been holed up at his Florida resort, mercifully quiet, thanks in part to his banishment from social media. If Trump still had a Twitter account, heâd sure ....
Charles M. Blow about his provocative new book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, which proposes a reverse migration of young Black people from northern cities to the South to try replicating what Stacey Abrams achieved in Georgia in the 2020 presidential and congressional races. Post-civil rights empowerment for Black populations has failed to materialize, argues Blow, with racism as pernicious, if not more so, in the “liberal” North as the South. The only way for Black people to claim true power, he says, is through self-determination creating large Black population centers in places like Atlanta and turning the political tide in their direction. Blow paints a searing portrait of fair-weather liberals whose Black Lives Matter protests last summer he likens to “a social justice Coachella” that ultimately failed to deliver policy changes. “Somehow Black people are supposed to pat white people on the back and say, ‘You’re getting there, I’ll ke ....
When he is inaugurated on Wednesday, Joe Biden will speak to the new chapter of national unity he hopes to usher in. But the heavily fortified backdrop against which heâll take his oath of office will be a stark and surreal reminder of the challenges heâll face as he tries to make good on that promise of healing the deeply divided country. Donald Trump set in motion January 6, Washington has been bracing for the potential for more MAGA violence, with a massive, multi-pronged security effort underway to protect the peaceful transfer of powerâa hallmark of American democracy that has come under threat, thanks to Trumpâs refusal, to the bitter end, to acknowledge his election loss. True to form, Trump wonât be attending his successorâs inaugurationânot that anyone really wants to see him glowering behind Biden the whole ceremony anywayâbut there is significant concern that some of his ardent supporters might try. ....