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It's only been three days since a gunman came within an inch or so of assassinating former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally while killing an attendee and wounding two others. But amazingly, the chattering classes are quickly moving on to other things. As of Tuesday morning, the assassination attempt is now just one major story among several, even at conservative outlets. It's quickly being superseded in the discourse by Trump's veep pick, the kickoff of the Republican National Convention, another terrible Joe Biden interview performance, and the Morning Joe drama over at MSNBC. E...
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The Republican National Convention (RNC) kicked off on Monday with a song as old as time: "It's the economy, stupid." That quote, which traces back to the early 1990s, came from Democratic strategist James Carville, an adviser on Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. But in a testament to the staying power of that message, and its resonance across political parties, it reappeared tonight in MAGA form: "Make America Wealthy Again." A noble goal. Can the Republican Party deliver? It would be hard to answer that based on Monday's program alone, which—as is typical for national political con...
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman grapple with the current political climate in the U.S. after the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump over the weekend. 01:44—Trump's Assassination attempt 27:06—President Joe Biden's press conference 43:07—Republican National Convention begins today 52:08—This week's cultural recommendations Mentioned in this podcast: "Donald Trump Bloodied in Assassination Attempt," by Eric Boehm "Assassination Attempt," by Liz Wolfe "Trump's Defiance of an Assassin's Bullet ...
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Both major American political camps are convinced that democracy is under attack by the other side, and they probably are both largely correct. There simply are different styles and approaches for thwarting the supposed will of the people—or at least for undermining the complex system that allows people to choose the way their nation is governed. Our democracy may be the equivalent of "two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner," as one aphorism puts it, but it's also "the worst form of government except for all those other forms," according to another. Our system certainly is flawed—l...
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What if President Joe Biden drops out? Just asking questions. Biden is facing increasing pressure from his own side to drop out of the 2024 race, which nearly every poll taken since his disaster debate performance last week shows him losing. The latest RealClearPolitics average has him down by about 3.5 percentage points nationally. Several Democratic congress members have called for him to step aside. So have Democratic megadonors. Much of the national press, once dismissive of those pointing out Biden's mental deterioration, has turned on him. So where do we go from here? To help us begin to...
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Two weeks: As of today, it has been two weeks since Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance that set off alarm bells for most of the Democratic Party as to whether he can be its candidate in November's presidential election. Initially, many prominent figures within the party stood their ground. Now, they're falling like dominoes. The first Democratic senator—Vermont's Peter Welch—has called for Biden to step aside, publicly declaring why in an op-ed for The Washington Post. Another—Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal—is making noises in that direction, while two others—Montana's Jon Tester and ...
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President Joe Biden's steadfast insistence that nothing short of divine intervention could end his re-election campaign hasn't quite staunched the bleeding. ABC's George Stephanopoulos, whose interview with Biden on Friday was intended to reassure fellow Democrats, now says Biden is clearly incapable of serving four more years. Some Congressional Democrats have turned on him, and others are hinting that they would prefer if he stepped aside. Sen. Tim Kaine (D–Va.) called on the president to "do the patriotic thing for this country." And even political figures who are ostensibly backing him hav...
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The 2016 Republican Party platform, which condemned Democrats for proposing laws that would "eviscerate the Second Amendment," devoted three paragraphs to gun rights. The 2020 platform did not discuss the subject at all because there was no 2020 platform; the party instead promised to "enthusiastically support the President's America-first agenda." This time around, the Republican National Committee (RNC) did approve a platform. But as The Reload's Jake Fogleman notes, the RNC has excised any mention of the Second Amendment except for a passing reference. That reference appears in a list of "t...
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Wildly unpopular with much of the American public and blatantly unsuited to the office of the presidency to which both men hope to be reelected, Donald Trump and Joe Biden both seem ripe to be replaced by younger, more competent candidates who evoke less popular revulsion. But while Biden in particular may yet be shuffled aside to make room for somebody else, they currently exist in a state of political symbiosis. Biden and Trump may hate each other, but each owes a strong measure of his political viability to the failings of his opponent. Nobody Likes ThemIn April, AP-NORC polling found "the ...
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President Joe Biden tries new approach: For his latest excuse regarding his cognitive decline and subsequent refusal to step down, President Joe Biden is attempting to portray himself as an embattled outsider who has earned the scorn of Democratic Party elites. "I'm getting so frustrated by the elites," the sitting president, who has been in politics for 52 years, said on MSNBC. He clarified that he wasn't referring to the hosts but "the elites in the party who, they know so much more," he added, emphasizing the last few words in a mocking tone. "I don't care what the millionaires think," he a...
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