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Fintan O’Toole
Invasion of the Democracy Snatchers

This week’s indictment details how Trump and his co-conspirators tried to destroy American democracy by creating empty replicas of its procedures and values.

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Fintan O’Toole
Dress Rehearsal

Trump’s attempt to undermine the 2020 election reads today like a blueprint drawn for a future autocrat.

Mark Danner
‘Be Ready to Fight’

Trumpism is driven by cruelty and domination even as its rhetoric claims grievance and victimization. The attack on the Capitol showed that Donald Trump’s army of millions will not just melt away when he leaves office.

Jonathan Stevenson
Trump’s Lingering Menace

A seditious president who fomented an insurrection in the Capitol remained the commander-in-chief of the US military.

Fintan O’Toole
Unrepentant Pence

Mike Pence’s religiosity may be entirely sincere, but it is also instrumental and highly politicized. He, like Trump, is in show business.

Jacqueline Rose
The Pleasures of Authoritarianism

It feels as if the ability to flout the law, while claiming to defend or in Trump’s case personify it is the sole true measure of prowess.