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Amanda Marcotte is a senior politics writer at Salon and the author of "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself." Follow her on Bluesky @AmandaMarcotte and sign up for her biweekly politics newsletter, Standing Room Only.

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

Republicans are in disarray without Donald Trump – but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still a threat

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Hundreds of people gathered at a peaceful vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common in South London on the 13th of March 2021, London, United Kingdom. The vigil was not sanctioned by police because of Covid restrictions and the police decided to arrest a number of people in an attempt to end the peaceful and highly emotional vigil. | Captain Jay Baker, of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, speaks at a press conference on March 17, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sarah Everard and the Atlanta spa shootings show how victim blaming continues even after #MeToo

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Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021 | Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested in connection with eight fatal shootings at three spas in the Atlanta area. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Crisp County Sheriff's Office)

Atlanta spa shootings and the Capitol riot: Gun control is the best tool to fight terrorism

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Laura Ingraham, Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump can’t save vaccine hesitant Republicans: Fox News has turned the GOP into a death cult

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The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Joe Biden is boring — and it’s driving the media crazy

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

Republicans are trying to sabotage Biden’s COVID vaccine plan to “own the libs.” We must ditch them

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Matt Gaetz, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Jim Jordan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Democrats successfully silenced Republican opposition to Biden’s COVID relief bill

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

A year of coronavirus: Trump is gone. It’s time to let go of the partisan responses to the pandemic

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to the press at the U.S. Capitol on March 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Senate passed the latest COVID-19 relief bill by 50 to 49 on a party-line vote, after an all-night session. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Biden’s stimulus bill gives progressives a big win. Now they must celebrate it

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A QAnon sticker is seen on the back of a car on November 6, 2020 in Los Angeles as the entire nation awaits the result of the presidential election. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

March 4 was a dud — but QAnon will persist because it is fueled by white entitlement

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Texas disaster exposes what happens when Republicans replace governance with trolling

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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

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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

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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

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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

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