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Chauncey DeVega is a senior politics writer for Salon. His essays can also be found at Chaunceydevega.com. He also hosts two weekly podcasts, The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report. Chauncey can be followed on Twitter and Facebook..

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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)

Americans left dizzy by Trump’s “shock and awe” 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 draw of Trump’s spectacle: 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”: Countering Trump’s spectacle begins with a press strategy

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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)

MAGA’s not-so-secret weapon: “Major media are a key tool for Trump’s destruction of the government”

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Donald Trump | The U.S. Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s plan to avert a constitutional crisis: “Put pressure on the courts to make some concessions”

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s shock and awe campaign rocks the courts

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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde delivers a sermon during the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Tuesday marks Trump's first full day of his second term in the White House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The path of best resistance: “Faith-rooted messaging would help build broader political support”

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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)

How to resist Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and avoid Donald Trump’s “broken status quo” trap

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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)

Donald Trump’s chaos strategy: Why Americans continue to fall for his game of distraction

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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 in the accelerated Age of Trump

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President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

“Americans were sleep-marched into fascism”: Signs of creeping authoritarianism we can’t miss again

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President Donald J Trump arrives to speak about infrastructure and artificial intelligence to reporters in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“They will fail through incompetence”: Trump’s bumpy return to office should worry MAGA

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US President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, January 29, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s first week: “Designed to destroy the United States from within”

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U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 2025 Republican Issues Conference at the Trump National Doral Miami on January 27, 2025 in Doral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“Just as bad as we feared”: Experts on the chaos and carnage of Trump’s first week

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A supporter reacts to election results during an election night event for US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris at Howard University in Washington, DC, on November 5, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Surviving “political grief”: You’re not alone, and there is a path forward

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“We must save ourselves”: America’s crippling cynicism helps Donald Trump

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Elon Musk VS. Mark Zuckerberg (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

It’s time to ditch toxic social media platforms

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U.S. President Joe Biden meets with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hope is at the heart of “healthy mourning”: Finding positivity while grieving Donald Trump’s return

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 07, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Democrats’ defeat leads to “demobilization and surrender” ahead of Trump’s inauguration

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Former President Donald Trump boards his airplane, known as "Trump Force One," as he heads to speak at campaign events in GA and NC, at Newark Liberty International Airport on Saturday, June 10, 2023, in Newark, NJ. (Photo edit by Salon/Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“Small acts of resistance”: Retooling “what protecting democracy looks like” in a second Trump term

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a town hall campaign event with former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (I-HI) on August 29, 2024 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

“There will be no rebuilding”: Bracing America for the implementation of Project 2025

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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)

The week Donald Trump became a great man of history

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Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at the Georgia Republican Party's state convention on Saturday, June 10, 2023 in Columbus, GA. (Cheney Orr for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“The entertainment of MAGA infighting” is a trap

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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and US Senator from Ohio and Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, in New York City on September 11, 2024. (ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Hard lessons the opposition has learned in defeat

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