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Opinion | This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism
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An analysis of the political calculations and expectations surrounding John Roberts' Supreme Court nomination and confirmation.
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Supreme Court nominations of the president. Their hope was that he would essentially at worst be a Rehnquist figure.
And Rehnquist had a lot of, well, was very conservative and had a down the line conservative voting record and also came under scrutiny for some sort of some personal questions or questionable decisions in his past.
So am I getting
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The dissolution of the Democratic establishment creates a power vacuum, making key elections crucial for reshaping the party's future.
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But he had to defy it to change it. And now there's like brand new conversations in Congress about what it means to lead Democrats on a committee. Now, for the first time, get this, now people are talking about term limits for chairs in the Democratic Party, which no one talked about until a young guy won, but whatever. And at least they're
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The necessity of morally engaged politics to counter extremism and how to respond to toxic polarization without de-escalating.
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But that's what's happened. That's why we have the dangerous mix of fundamentalism and hyper-nationalism that we see today.
It's because we need a morally more engaged way of contending with our disagreements and a morally more explicit way of deliberating as citizens about what it is we share and what the implications of that
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