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Aaron Barlow

Richard Nixon, Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan (AP/Mary Schwalm/Bob Dougherty)

Donald Trump is a big fat liar — and the unquestioned heir to 50 years of GOP whoppers

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Donald Trump addresses bikers as part of the Rolling Thunder speakers program in Washington., May 29, 2016. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Donald Trump is a chicken-hawk and a hypocrite: The real story about Vietnam and the draft

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(C-Span)

David Brooks will never get it: After getting Trump and GOP wrong, now he has a new crusade

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David Brooks (PBS)

David Brooks has driven me mad: His wacky New York Times mea culpa is a master troll’s finest moment yet

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Donald Trump (Reuters/Nati Harnik/iStock/Salon)

Let’s thank Donald Trump: The Ivy League, the 1 percent and the education horror brought forward by his racist campaign

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Joe Scarborough, Donald Trump (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Brendan McDermid/Photo montage by Salon)

Donald Trump’s disastrous free ride: Finally, The New York Times commands the obvious

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David Brooks (PBS)

David Brooks, sad and deluded, just keeps trying: Bless his heart, but he lost his mind again today

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Donald Trump (AP/Andrew Harnik/Salon)

Donald Trump’s the ultimate baby boomer: How boomer entitlement and Hollywood explain the GOP front-runner

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(AP/Brynn Anderson)

This is why Donald Trump’s winning: The GOP thinks their base is backward — now they’re showing them who’s in charge

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Paul Ryan, Donald Trump. Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush (AP/Reuters/J. Scott Applewhite/Stephen B. Morton/Mike Stone/Jim Young)

How Donald Trump blindsided the GOP: Inside the uprising the establishment never imagined — and didn’t see coming

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(C-Span)

David Brooks has lost his mind, again: Everything he doesn’t understand about the GOP and Donald Trump’s new “movement”

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(Reuters/Brian Snyder)

This is a war for America’s soul: Donald Trump reflects frustrations of an embittered white America

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(AP/Charles Krupa)

This is how to understand Donald Trump: The frustration he taps into is as old as America

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David Brooks (PBS)

David Brooks begins a conservative 12-step program — after eight years of giving right-wing looniness the cover of his respectability

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David Brooks (PBS)

David Brooks gets this wrong, too: He misses his own complicity in letting the GOP run off the rails

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David Brooks (PBS)

David Brooks’ Baltimore column might be his dumbest of the year (We didn’t think it was possible, either)

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(HBO/AP/Nam Y. Huh)

David Brooks has a Bill Maher problem: More smug, sanctimonious nonsense from NYT’s laziest columnist

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David Brooks (AP/Nam Y. Huh)

David Brooks is still really bad at his job (May 9 edition)

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David Brooks (AP/Nam Y. Huh)

David Brooks couldn’t be more wrong: What the New York Times still doesn’t get about education “reform”

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