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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Media again distracted by MAGA spectacle

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President Joe Biden shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Nov. 13, 2024. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump takes advantage of Dem disillusion

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This illustration photo created May 20, 2024 in Los Angeles shows a frame from a video posted on Donald Trump's Truth Social account displayed on a smartphone in front of a photo of the former US president. (CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's distraction machine is working

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President Donald Trump duiring a Cabinet meeting at the White House on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump held the first Cabinet meeting of his second term with Elon Musk in attendance. (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's security: The cover of chaos

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Former President Donald Trump attends the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 287 mixed martial arts event at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, on April 8, 2023. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

The folly of Trump's tariff "game show"

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U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Acts of anticipatory obedience ramp up

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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)

There is only one end to MAGA dominance

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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)

"Spectocracy": The New MAGA Order

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks Vice President JD Vance, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris look on during his inauguration in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

America is dizzy from Trump's spectacle

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U.S. Republican Presidential Candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Mexico border on August 22, 2024 south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

The spectacle of Trump's inhumanity

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US President Donald Trump speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

The media are aware of the manipulation

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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes part in a town hall moderated by Fox News broadcaster Sean Hannity at the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on September 4, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

The open secret of Trump's takeover

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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

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at a Turning Point Action campaign rally at the Thomas & Mack Center on October 24, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Can a great man of history be stopped?

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Former President Donald Trump walks out to speak at a news conference from the lobby of Trump Tower the day after being found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree at Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York, NY on Friday, May 31, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

A glossary for a second Trump term

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President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama walk out prior to Obama's departure during the 2017 presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Jack Gruber-Pool/Getty Images)

Why Democrats are still in grief

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Joe Rogan and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Facing America's new self-evident truths

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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democrats' grief is a distraction trap

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President-elect Donald Trump holds the UFC heavyweight championship belt after the UFC heavyweight championship fight between Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic during the UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden on November 16, 2024 in New York City. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images)

Where is the fierce urgency of now?

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U.S. President Joe Biden (L) speaks next to former US President Barack Obama onstage during a campaign fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on June 15, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

What Democrats didn't hear from voters

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U.S. Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves as she leaves the stage on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

The problem with what voters want

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U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris listen as Second gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks at an event celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Picking through debris of the election

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Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, campaigns with former President Barack Obama at the James R Hallford Stadium on October 24, 2024 in Clarkston, Georgia. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Democrats need to rebrand

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Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally on November 04, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The harsh truth of Harris' defeat

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