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Mike Lofgren is a historian and writer, and a former national security staff member for the House and Senate. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.”

Merrick Garland and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Merrick Garland, Donald Trump and the fall of France

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Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood in "House Of Cards" and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Netflix/David Giesbrecht)

“House of Cards” once seemed too cynical — those were innocent times

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Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Donald Trump reduced the GOP to groveling sycophants

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Liberal cowardice, Trump and the Constitution: Surrender is not an option

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Vintage Revolutionary War print of General George Washington praying at Valley Forge (Getty Images/John Parrot/Stocktrek Images)

Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away

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Ukrainian soldiers take infantry training in Donetsk Oblast as the Russia-Ukraine war continues in Ukraine, on August 11, 2023. | Government Officials Drafting the Terms of the Treaty of Versailles. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won’t solve this crisis

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The parking lot is nearly deserted at Forest Plaza on March 24, 2020 in Rockford, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Why America is going backward: Being the richest nation in history isn’t enough

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Political philosopher Edmund Burke and American conservative author William F. Buckley Jr. | US President Donald Trumps supporters gather outside the Capitol building in Washington D.C., United States on January 06, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

There’s no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power

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Members of the far-right group Patriot Front are seen marching through Washington, DC on May 13th, 2023. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The party of pollution, disease and death: When Republicans tell you who they are, believe them

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Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The GOP’s heart of darkness: Why Ron DeSantis can never beat Donald Trump

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Xi Jinping, Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

No, dictatorships are not more “efficient”: See how Putin and Xi have wrecked their countries

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Rand Paul, Josh Hawley and Robert A. Taft (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Making excuses for dictators is nothing new: “Mr. Republican” and the Nazis

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Republican Ticking Death Bomb (Illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

There really is a “great replacement” — but it’s not what Tucker Carlson says it is

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Joe Biden, Rick Scott and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans have a plan — to hold America hostage over the debt ceiling yet again

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Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate John Fetterman holds a rally at Nether Providence Elementary School on October 15, 2022 in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. Election Day will be held nationwide on November 8, 2022. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

For Democrats, it was the Dunkirk election: They escaped disaster, but the road ahead is hard

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US President Donald Trump holds up a Bible outside of St John's Episcopal church across Lafayette Park in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

How the mainstream media fell for the Lafayette Square whitewash

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President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, for his address to a joint session of Congress. () (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Image via AP)

Donald Trump and the Deep State 2.0

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(AP/Carlos Osorio)

Clear and present danger: Maybe this is how democracy ends

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Andrew Sullivan is blind: It’s elitists who helped give rise to America’s neo-fascist movement

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(AP/Charles Dharapak/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Hubris takes them all down: This is why every president makes the same dumb mistakes

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GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party

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