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Mr. Potato Head, The Cat In The Hat and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Dr Sues Media Center)

Mr. Potato Head, Dr. Seuss and trans kids: How Democrats are already letting Republicans win in 2022

Amanda Marcotte
Republicans have quickly seized on wedge issues while Democrats stubbornly refuse to end the filibuster
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on February 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. The House voted 230 to 199 on Friday evening to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from committee assignments over her remarks about QAnon and other conspiracy theories. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Marjorie Taylor Greene complains extra security at Capitol is “the real voter suppression”

Jon Skolnik
Republicans wage a misinformation campaign against H.R. 1 as the House vote approaches
Hundreds of voters lined up early in Cranberry, Pennsylvania at the Cranberry Highlands Golf Course on November 03, 2020. Many did not trust early voting (especially fears of mail delays) and opted to vote on election day in person. The average wait time here was two hours. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The Supreme Court may be set to gut voting rights — but Democrats can still stop them

Amanda Marcotte
The GOP-dominated SCOTUS longs to end the Voting Rights Act. Democrats can save it by nuking the filibuster
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to members of the media at a news conference on May 21, 2020 in New York City. While the governor continued to say that New York City is seeing a steady decline in coronavirus cases, he also mentioned that the number of countries reporting a mysterious illness in children believed to be connected to COVID-19 has nearly doubled in just one week. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The Cuomo scandal illustrates the limits of #MeToo — and the need to hold men to a higher standard

Amanda Marcotte
Being an overbearing creep falls short of sexual harassment, but more social opprobrium would help stop the louts
Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and Paul Gosar (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

CPAC was about more than Trump’s cult — it’s now cemented the GOP’s authoritarianism

Amanda Marcotte
Even scarier than Trump's personality cult, CPAC shows that Republicans' fascism deeper than Trump
Britney Spears in the audience at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards at Paramount Pictures Studios on September 7, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

How the abuse of Britney Spears led to the GOP’s war on women

Amanda Marcotte
The obsession with Britney Spears' virginity was the first shot in a 20-year war on millennial women
US President Donald Trump speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center February 29, 2020 in National Harbor, Maryland. Conservatives gather at the annual event to discuss their agenda. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump’s failed coup continues: CPAC set to be a celebration of the Capitol insurrection

Amanda Marcotte
CPAC sets out to defend Trump's coup, celebrate his election lies and paint him as the real victim
Ron Johnson, Dinesh D'Souza and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP is still gaslighting about the Capitol riot: Trump’s allies claim coup and QAnon never happened

Amanda Marcotte
After the riot comes the gaslighting
Donald Trump behind bars (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Senate Republicans, too weak to convict Trump, should pray New York prosecutors lock him up

Amanda Marcotte
Forget about impeachment, Republicans who want Trumpism without Trump's baggage should want his imprisonment
Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

500,000 dead Americans: One year of COVID exposes the rot of GOP ideology

Amanda Marcotte
Half a million dead and Texas in shambles — Democrats have a real chance to destroy "small government" arguments
Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Texas disaster exposes what happens when Republicans replace governance with trolling

Amanda Marcotte
Republicans have mastered the art of breaking government and telling voters it's because government can't work
Rush Limbaugh, Kurt Cobain and Chrissie Hynde (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Rush Limbaugh captivated dads like mine and created America’s modern fascist aesthetic

Amanda Marcotte
Limbaugh co-opted rock-and-roll to sell authoritarianism
Greg Abbott, Donald Trump and the snowstorm in Texas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP response to the Texas winter storms steals directly from Trump’s sadistic COVID-19 playbook

Amanda Marcotte
Texas Republicans try to troll their way through a disaster
Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A lesson from Trump’s acquittal: Bipartisanship won’t save democracy — Democrats must fight the GOP

Amanda Marcotte
Trump's insurrection was part of a larger Republican assault on democracy — one that can't be beaten by playing nice
David Schoen, defense lawyer for former President Donald Trump speaks on the first day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on February 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. (congress.gov via Getty Images)

Why bother? Trump’s lawyers don’t even offer an impeachment defense because Republicans don’t care

Amanda Marcotte
Trump's lawyers know they're not there to persuade — just to give GOP senators cheap rationalizations to acquit
Police hold back supporters of US President Donald Trump as they gather outside the US Capitol's Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

House Democrats make their case to Senate Republicans: Trump duped his rioters — and he’ll dump you

Amanda Marcotte
Trump impeachment trial, day 3: House managers remind Senate Republicans that Trump will never repay their loyalty
U. S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during joint announcement with U. S. Senator Chuck Schumer at 103rd Street Corona Plaza. Schumer and Ocasio-Cortez announced that in recent COVID relief legislation, the Federal Emergency Management Administration will help pay for the funeral and burial of COVID-hit families that cannot afford it via a $2 billion national pot of disaster funds out of which $260 million will be allocated to New York City. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The right’s hatred of AOC isn’t just racism and sexism: It sums up the entire toxic Trump era

Chauncey DeVega
All the right-wing paranoia that led to Trump and Jan. 6 is visible in the exaggerated hatred for one woman
In this screenshot taken from a congress.gov webcast, Lead Impeachment Manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speaks on the second day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on February 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. House impeachment managers will make the case that Trump was “singularly responsible” for the January 6th attack at the U.S. Capitol and he should be convicted and barred from ever holding public office again. (congress.gov via Getty Images)

Trump trial, day 2: Democrats employ emotion to make their case. Will Republicans be moved?

Amanda Marcotte
House managers make their impeachment case crystal clear: GOP complicit in Trump's insurrection
In this screenshot taken from a congress.gov webcast, Bruce Castor Jr. defense lawyer for former President Donald Trump speaks on the first day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on February 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. House impeachment managers will make the case that Trump was “singularly responsible” for the January 6th attack at the U.S. Capitol and he should be convicted and barred from ever holding public office again. (congress.gov via Getty Images)

Impeachment sends Republican senators scrambling: Trump makes the GOP squirm with a flailing defense

Amanda Marcotte
Even Trump knows his defense is a joke — but most Senate Republicans are pathetically pretending it's gold
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a press conference after a meeting with Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on February 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Democrats drop the ball on Trump’s second impeachment before the trial even begins

Amanda Marcotte
Democrats are making a huge mistake if they don't call witnesses at Trump's second impeachment trial
Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republican Senators aren’t beholden to their base — they’ll acquit Trump because they agree with him

Amanda Marcotte
Republicans who claim they want to "move on" are lying, since the best way to do that is bar Trump from running
Queso & Chips (Getty Images)

The best appetizer recipes to fuel a night of binge-watching TV, according to the Salon Food team

Salon Staff
Our favorite recipes will level up any live TV extravaganza or Netflix marathon. Yes, that includes the Super Bowl
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Jason Crow, Rep. Nancy Mace and the Capitol Hill rioters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why conservatives are now targeting the victims of the Capitol riot

Amanda Marcotte
Nancy Mace makes fun of AOC for being "triggered." Is sneering at people's pain the GOP's latest strategy?
Marjorie Taylor Greene | Qanon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Image)

Don’t blame a lack of education — QAnon proves privileged white people are losing their minds too

Amanda Marcotte
QAnon should be the death knell of the idea that wealth and education can insulate people from conspiracy theories
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