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A group of pro-Trump protesters raise a giant America Flag on the West grounds of the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

A (culture) war of desperation

Heather Digby Parton
(AP/Salon)

Trump's two-faced racism

Paul Rosenberg
Donald Trump; Lee Atwater (AP/Evan Vucci/Getty/Chet Strange)

GOP hits peak racial hypocrisy

Chauncey DeVega
Mitch McConnell; Donald Trump; John McCain (AP/Evan Vucci/Molly Riley/Brett Carlsen/Ron Edmonds)

GOP: Caught in the Trump trap

Paul Rosenberg
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Paul Ryan, Donald Trump (AP/Richard Drew/Andrew Harnik/Photo montage by Salon)

Trump exposes dirty GOP secret

Carol Anderson
Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz (AP/Reuters)

The party of racism and stupid

Amy Kittelstrom
(AP/Charles Tasnadi/Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Hell-bent on tearing us apart

Heather Cox Richardson
(AP/Bill Haber/Carolyn Kaster/Photo montage by Salon)

Reagan's revolution is dying

Conor Lynch
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(Reuters/Rebecca Cook/Brian Snyder/Instagram/Photo montage by Salon)

Jeb can't out-demagogue Trump

Joan Walsh

David Morris - Alternet
(Reuters/Carlos Barria/Brendan McDermid/Photo montage by Salon)

Walker is a pastier Trump

Elias Isquith
Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker (AP/John Minchillo/Jacquelyn Martin/Photo montage by Salon)

Jindal just splintered the GOP

Heather Cox Richardson
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(AP/Dave Martin)

The south's victim complex

Matthew Pulver
George Wallace, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon (AP/Salon)

It's always been about race

Paul Rosenberg
Cliven Bundy, Ronald Reagan (Reuters/Steve Marcus/AP)

Reagan created Cliven Bundy

Paul Rosenberg
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Bill O'leary/AP/Nam Y. Huh/MSNBC)

Nate Silver's bias problem

Elias Isquith
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Paul Ryan (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ryan flap: Worse than it looks

Brian Beutler
Ronald Reagan (AP)

Reagan: Tea Partier who smiled

Lawrence Freedman
John Boehner, Michele Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh (AP/Susan Walsh/Stacy Bengs/Reuters/Micah Walter)

The GOP civil war is a myth

Kim Messick

Noonan hears a dog whistle

Joan Walsh
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Karl Rove, new Republican lightning rod (Reuters/Larry Downing)

Rove won't surrender

David Sirota
Lee Atwater. (The Nation)

Jillian Rayfield
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