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Mike Lofgren

Mike Lofgren is a historian and writer, and a former national security staff member for the House and Senate. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.”

Donald Trump speaks during a three-hour, 17-minute Cabinet meeting, Aug. 26, 2025. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Will we even notice when democracy is gone?

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We need a new theory of democracy — because this version has failed

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President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

How did we get from the ’60s to Trump’s kitsch White House?

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New York Times columnist David Brooks, seen in Washington, D.C., in 2011. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

David Brooks faces the truth of US history — and runs away

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U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

America slides into totalitarianism — and it won’t be easy to reverse

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Pete Rose as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, March 1989. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Pete Rose, Donald Trump and the corruption of literally everything

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump is reflected off a window as he speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024 in New York City. Trump closed out his weekend of campaigning in New York City with a guest list of speakers that includes his running mate Republican Vice Presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Tesla CEO Elon Musk, UFC CEO Dana White, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, among others, nine days before Election Day. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Goose-steppers in the name of freedom: The nonsensical cult that now rules America

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Leaving the USA to burn (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Goodbye to all that — once again, and for the last time

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Donald Trump | Townspeople give the Nazi salute as German police march through Imst, Austria after the Anschluss of March 1938. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America’s elites are running interference for Donald Trump

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Supporters of US President Donald Trump participate in the Million MAGA March to protest the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in front of the US Supreme Court on December 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. (JOSE LUIS MAGANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Invasion of the MAGA body snatchers: How many friends have you lost to madness?

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Senator Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975, left) and Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) pledge allegiance to the American flag at an America First Committee (AFC) rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, 23rd May 1941. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Sorry, Washington Post: Whitewashing a Nazi sympathizer isn’t “debate”

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Greek philosopher Socrates statues with a MAGA hat (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The far right actually hates America: Its dark ideology has foreign roots

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A representative stands in front of a monitor at Sinopharm CNBG's inactivated SARS-Cov-2 vaccine COVID-19 production facility during a media tour organized by the State Council Information Office on February 26, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Who spread vaccine disinformation in the Philippines? The US military did

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Donald Trump holding a bible (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

What a fool believes: Donald Trump and America’s bogus respect for “faith”

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Merrick Garland and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Merrick Garland, Donald Trump and the fall of France

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Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood in "House Of Cards" and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Netflix/David Giesbrecht)

“House of Cards” once seemed too cynical — those were innocent times

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Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Donald Trump reduced the GOP to groveling sycophants

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Liberal cowardice, Trump and the Constitution: Surrender is not an option

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Vintage Revolutionary War print of General George Washington praying at Valley Forge (Getty Images/John Parrot/Stocktrek Images)

Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away

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Ukrainian soldiers take infantry training in Donetsk Oblast as the Russia-Ukraine war continues in Ukraine, on August 11, 2023. | Government Officials Drafting the Terms of the Treaty of Versailles. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won’t solve this crisis

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The parking lot is nearly deserted at Forest Plaza on March 24, 2020 in Rockford, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Why America is going backward: Being the richest nation in history isn’t enough

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Political philosopher Edmund Burke and American conservative author William F. Buckley Jr. | US President Donald Trumps supporters gather outside the Capitol building in Washington D.C., United States on January 06, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

There’s no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power

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Members of the far-right group Patriot Front are seen marching through Washington, DC on May 13th, 2023. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The party of pollution, disease and death: When Republicans tell you who they are, believe them

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Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The GOP’s heart of darkness: Why Ron DeSantis can never beat Donald Trump

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