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People protest against the administration of US President Donald Trump's decision to virtually shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

The Age of Trump is a great moral crisis

Chauncey DeVega
US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump exploits a failure of imagination

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

New rules for radical resistance

Chauncey DeVega
The Boys (Prime Video)

The dangers of strongmen & superheroes

Melanie McFarland
Salvadorean Samuel Fuentes, a farmer who lost his crops because of the drought, checks his corn field in the town of Usulutan, 110 km southeast from San Salvador, El Salvador on July 24, 2018. (OSCAR RIVERA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change is a pretext for fascism

Matthew Rozsa
Former President Donald Trump speaks during the 'Save America' rally at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds on January 29, 2022 in Conroe, Texas. Trump's visit was his first Texas MAGA rally since 2019. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Inside MAGA's unbreakable bond

Chauncey DeVega
Former US President Donald Trump looks on during Round 3 at the LIV Golf-Bedminster 2023 at the Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey on August 13, 2023. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's emails to MAGA more panicked now

Chauncey DeVega
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as he arrives onstage to speak during a campaign event at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, September 29, 2024. (DUSTIN FRANZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's "violent" purge is a real threat

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, looks on during a campaign rally at The Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas on September 13, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Can Trump end democracy? Maybe not

Émile P. Torres
Donald Trump and JD Vance (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A Trump campaign on a losing trajectory

Chauncey DeVega
US former President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pumps his fist during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Profiting off political violence

Chauncey DeVega
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents during a campaign event on March 12, 2016 in Dayton, Ohio. (Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images)

MAGA's "dissonance" shocks experts

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump addresses troops at Miramar Marine Corp Air Station. (Getty/Sandy Huffaker)

Arlington's the Führer principle applied

Chauncey DeVega
Images of Donald Trump appear on stage screens in the Fiserv Forum on the day before the Republican National Convention (RNC) on July 14, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Downfall: GOP's cult of personality

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump | U.S. Department of Justice (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP's dark plan to avoid another Jan. 6

Chauncey DeVega
Former US President and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump arrives to speak at a watch party during the 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 15, 2024. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The MAGA principle tested

Chauncey DeVega
Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don't like Biden's economy? OK, but ...

Kirk Swearingen
Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The world's biggest election year

Paul Rosenberg
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Hillary Clinton paradox

Chauncey DeVega
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump greets supporters after speaking at a Get Out The Vote rally at Winthrop University on February 23, 2024 in Rock Hill, South Carolina. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Why Trump loves violence — and needs it

Dean Obeidallah
Donald Trump, Lara Trump and Ronna McDaniel (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's fragile ego could be his undoing

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

How Trump made them grovel

Mike Lofgren
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"The Christian enemies of democracy"

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump | Supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump praying outside the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump and the Christian "civil war"

Chauncey DeVega
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