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Topic: Family Values

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, walks through the Capitol Hill, with his child, in regards to Department of Government Efficiency meetings on December 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Maansi Srivastava for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Why Musk's weird baby mama drama matters

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump and Ivana Trump; Donald Trump and Marla Maples; Donald Trump and Melania Trump (Getty/AP)

Trump's "purple" values: Mainly sexism

Amanda Marcotte
Eric Greitens (AP/Charlie Riedel)

Missouri GOP governor admits to affair

Charlie May
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley speaks to the media during a news conference, Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in Hoover, Ala. Bentley issued a state of emergency in Alabama after a pipeline spill near Helena, Ala. Gas prices spiked and drivers found "out of service" bags covering pumps as the gas shortage in the South rolled into the work week, raising fears that the disruptions could become more widespread. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) (AP)

Katie Serena, Sophia Tesfaye
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Dan Quayle (AP/Marcy Nighswander/Salon)

The family values sham

Scott Timberg
Ronald Reagan and Jerry Falwell at the Baptist Fundamentalism '84 conference, April 13, 1984 in Washington. (AP/Ira Schwarz)

The demise of "family values"

Eric C. Miller - Religion Dispatches
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Sanders trolls the GOP

Luke Brinker
(Associated Press)

Jenny Kutner
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(AP/Danny Johnston)

Joanna Rothkopf
State Rep. Patricia Todd (AP)

Jenny Kutner
Barack Obama at the White House Summit on Working Families in Washington, June 23, 2014. (Reuters/Larry Downing)

The real "family values" party

Joan Walsh
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

They got it all wrong

Anat Shenker-Osorio, Jeffrey Parcher
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A still from the ad "Pelosi First" (YouTube/NRCC)

GOP's full-blown panic

Heather Digby Parton
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-69636p1.html'>Stocksnapper</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Amanda Marcotte - Alternet
(istockphoto allanswart)

Katie McDonough
Vance McAllister (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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