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Coulter’s 2015 polemic ¡Adios, America! was perhaps the most influential book of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

WeWork’s public affairs team lobbied heavily against the idea: Trump’s presidency, and all that it stood for, was the antithesis of the world Neumann claimed WeWork was creating.

Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

Per polling out of Michigan State University, Trump voters in this cycle, at least in Michigan, are much more likely to say that the country is “changing too fast, undermining traditional values” than they were in 2016, when researchers first found a strong correlation between aversion to social change and a vote for Trump.

That dividing line is gro... See more

Christian Paz • Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally showed how racism is the beating heart of election denial

Trump may have lied about the influence of the far right on his plans, but it is clear that his voters did not anticipate anything other than a return to the status quo before the pandemic. What they’re getting instead is a new crisis pushed on by a dangerous set of corrupt oligarchs and monomaniacal ideologues. As dangerous as the president and hi... See more

Opinion | There Is No Going Back

The Democratic Party of George McGovern was, in this narrative, the party of “acid, amnesty and abortion,” the party of chaos, disruption and overreach. Out of touch with the vast American middle, it had cast its lot with cultural elites and antiwar militants. This Democratic Party, said the Nixon campaign, could not relate to the tens of millions ... See more

Jamelle Bouie • Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’

Au lieu d’être à nouveau scandalisés, ils auraient dû comprendre qu’une figure comme Trump était attirante pour lui : effronté, un gangster, son propre maître, que cela vous plaise ou non, un solitaire, transparent, un diseur de vérité à ne pas prendre littéralement, imparfait, contradictoire, un rebelle, horrible pour certains ou merveilleux pour

Bret Easton Ellis • White - édition française (French Edition)

Given the global trend, it’s really Republicans who should be hand-wringing and asking why it’s even close, and the answer is obviously that Trump is a scumbag.

Matthew Yglesias • 27 takes on the 2024 election

For as much as some of Trump’s and Musk’s moves were anticipated in Project 2025, the fact of the matter is that marginal Trump voters — the voters who gave him his victory — did not vote for any of this. They voted specifically to lower the cost of living. They did not vote, in Musk’s words, for economic “hardship.” Nor did they vote to make Musk ... See more

Opinion | There Is No Going Back

Here Kelly was borrowing a classic leftist technique: the demand for disavowal. If a given politician or a given political stance attracts the “wrong” type of audience, it’s presented as “problematic” on its face. This is the sophisticated version of saying the utterly unsophisticated “If he’s fer it, I’m agin’ it.” In a democracy every person’s vo