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#Pence2018: The National Review cuts through Nunes nonsense.

Devin Nunes has proven himself to be more loyal to Trump than he is to America or even to the Republican Party. As Cristian Farias writes: In the early months of the Trump administration, [Nunes] left no doubt that he

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#Pence2018 because Pence wouldn’t need to illegally use campaign funds to pay hush money to porn star to cover up an affair

Nor would a president Ryan nor just about any other plausible president I can think of. Let’s put this ugliness behind us as soon as possible. The Republicans who control both houses of Congress have a choice and it should

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#Pence2018: Trump and Pence will unite the nation in 2018 because liberals and conservatives both agree that Pence is much more honorable and less dangerous.

When Trump first began as president, he was at his peak popularity. As Americans have seen him in action, he has gotten steadily less popular. Even when Trump was elected, 60% of voters thought that he was not qualified to

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Rural politics

Farming communities have always been less cosmopolitan than urban areas, and that makes them more culturally conservative, but my sense is that they used to be more economically liberal in the past than today. Today, the most solidly conservative parts

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The ethics behind Trump’s main money man

Jane Mayer at the New Yorker has a profile of Robert Mercer, the reclusive Billionaire who probably invested more money in getting Trump elected than any other American (and we don’t know how much Putin spent). He not only directly

Posted in Medianism, Pence2018, Public Finance

YUGE revelation! The one word Trump hasn’t tweeted in the past 7 months is HUGE! Has public ridicule about it been getting to him?

Zachary Crockett analyzed 7 months of Trump’s tweets at Vox and his top three adjectives have been: Great (used 415 times) New (used 227 times) Big (used 148 times) The Trumpiest adjective of all is the word “HUGE!” which Trump would probably be inclined to write

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