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Report From Foul Territory: Donald Trump Can’t Even Do Baseball Cliches Right
It was about halfway through Donald Trump’s scripted speech in honor of the Washington Nationals, baseball’s 2019 World Series Champions—a blue November afternoon, the sky across the South Lawn of the...
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On the Clearing of Lafayette Square, and the Coward Donald Trump
It was a bright, arid day, the kind you rarely come across this late in spring, a wind from the west thinning the last few clouds so that, by the time I made it down to the White House, the sky had...
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Election Night in the Heart of the Capital: Proud Boys, Parties, and Protest
We began the evening by walking to the White House. It was already after sunset, the sky over the capital retaining the color of the city beneath it, a pale cloudless night, the air thin and clear with...
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In Washington, DC, Celebrating the Eviction of Donald Trump From the White House
It was a blue November Saturday in Washington, DC, the afternoon turning warmer than expected. A few hours earlier, all the major news networks had finally called the presidential election, and along...
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American Brown Shirts in the Streets of the Capital
It was just past 1 pm and once again the weather was perfect, another blue Saturday afternoon in DC, a week after Joe Biden had been declared President-elect. Pressed around me were the outgoing...
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QAnon Takes the Capitol: Culmination or Beginning?
Photo by Rachel Cobb. It was overcast, cold and damp. I arrived at Wednesday’s rally an hour before Donald Trump was scheduled to speak. The crowd, packed along the low rise of the hill between the...
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Donald Trump Will Never Understand the Pain He Has Caused
Sometime in the night there’d been rain, a cold front in from the Atlantic. But by morning all that was gone. The clouds thinned into a blue unbroken chain, and the sunrise came on, first in the...
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Cult 45: Navigating the Virulence of the First Post-Trump CPAC
It’s Friday morning, the kickoff to the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference, and one thing is clear from the start: the Orlando resort hosting this year’s event is teeming. Conference-goers...
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Hell Among the Canceled: Day 2 at CPAC with Marjorie Taylor Greene
The bullhorn starts up just after 11 am. “America first,” a man keeps shouting. “Trump won! Trump won!” From my room at the Orlando Hyatt, 19 floors up from the street below, his warbles through the...
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Saying the Quiet Part Loud: Courting the White Nationalist Vote at CPAC
The horns started at noon today. On the sidewalk down below the hotel hundreds of supporters had gathered, perhaps ten times as many the day before. The counterprotestors were back, too, but not with...
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