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Trump is the undisputed leader of the right—but that does not mean he is not weak. @bernybelvedere.bsky.social

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Great piece

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As a term-limited, late-stage septuagenarian with underwater approval ratings, a razor-thin majority in the House, significant slip-ups mere months into office, a fractious coalition, and a midterm referendum on his tenure coming his way, Trump’s hold on power is more precarious than many believe.

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This is gonna be amazing

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The event you have all been waiting for! The publisher of @theunpopulist.net, ISMA, is hosting its second annual 'Liberalism for the 21st Century' conference. We sold out several weeks in advance last year. So don't wait this year. Register now: www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-instit...

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For one glorious week—roughly starting on June 3rd and lasting until the 9th—Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the two most significant figures in Republican politics, found themselves on a spectacular collision course that threatened to shatter the MAGA coalition. @bernybelvedere.bsky.social

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Earlier this month, the great Redpill Rupture of our time almost happened. @bernybelvedere.bsky.social

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It’s true that Donald Trump is the undisputed leader of the right. But hooboy is he fortunate that the feud with Musk, who could have really hurt him, has largely died down. My latest for @theunpopulist.net

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I've been meaning to do a thread on the collapse of political judgment in the public sphere. Here's an instance of why: "Libs hate masks when used to shield the identity of agents of the state, but love them when used for public health" as a gotcha is an ostentatious failure of judgment

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Libs sure loved masks when it came to mitigating a world-stopping respiratory virus. But now that armed agents of the state are using them to harass innocent people with impunity, suddenly masks are bad! Make up your mind, libs!

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Journalist: “Hey, um, ICE, where did you get 413% from? Just trying to verify the data.” ICE: “Oh, problem with 413%? How about the number just went up to 500 PERCENT, BITCH. No, go ahead. Keep investigating.”

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this wonderful piece from @profmsinha.bsky.social gets to what was truly great about lincoln — his open mind and great capacity for moral growth www.theunpopulist.net/p/abraham-li...

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The best thing about Lincoln was his capacity for growth. Great piece, @profmsinha.bsky.social

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Fantastic reflection by @profmsinha.bsky.social on how Black abolitionists laid the groundwork for emancipation by helping Abraham Lincoln eventually arrive at the position that slavery must be fully eradicated.

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Extremely tempting offer ngl

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Powerful rebuke by Rabbi Michael Holzman to Donald Trump ahead of his preposterous birthday military parade.

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👏👏👏

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A right-wing publication’s report on Harvard's law journal was weaponized by the Trump administration in its attack on the university. Want to see how misleading the original report was? Here’s just one example: www.theunpopulist.ne...

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This is excellent

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Sam Tanenhaus' massive new biography of William F. Buckley just came out. Reviewing it for us is historian of conservative thought @joshuatait.bsky.social. "But, we live, to a not inconsequential degree, in a world Buckley has shaped—and there is much to lament about that."

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Trump's American nightmare, coming soon to law-abiding people near you

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Seems bad

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Hey postliberal religious conservatives: This woman jailed and getting deported after living in a Missouri town for 20 years converted to Catholicism, delivers a powerful communitarian message, and speaks with deep gratitude toward the Trump voters backing her cause. newrepublic.com/article/1959...

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My very first feature. Absolutely stoked to have it be in the @arktimes.bsky.social

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Outstanding discussion of post liberalism and MAGA opportunism, from @bernybelvedere.bsky.social and Jerome Copulsky: www.theunpopulist.net/p/postlibera...

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We are a small outfit but we are consistently clarifying the most important cases and issues better than the big boys.

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Washington Free Beacon's exposé that Harvard Law Review obsessively bases its decisions on race and gender isn't as fake as white Afrikaners are facing genocide in South Africa claim, but it is pretty fake @cathyyoung63.bsky.social @bernybelvedere.bsky.social www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-slante...

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“Postliberal religious conservatives went from recommending retreat to recommending reconquest. I found this to be a pretty seismic shift.” — @bernybelvedere.bsky.social

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“In a stable democracy, the government’s legitimate use of force is guided by law, with clear boundaries that prevent abuses of power. However, in a fractured government experiencing a constitutional crisis, those boundaries blur.” www.theunpopulist.net/p/there-is-n...

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Our Memorial Day piece is a really important read. Our commitment to maintaining an apolitical military is eroding—and it is critical that we not utterly forfeit this ideal.

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I really enjoyed chatting with Jerome Copulsky about the postliberals and NatCons. Give it a listen—or read the transcript of our conversation.

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This essay by @andycraig.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net on our constitutional omni-crisis needs to be widely read.

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Would you take a moment to subscribe to The UnPopulist? It is completely free, we don't have any ads, and we only send you around four or five emails per week. www.theunpopulist.net

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This is really good analysis from @aselrod.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net on why Starmer's embrace of Reform UK style politics is so morally reprehensible and politically suicidal.

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It is undeniable to any sane observer that the DOGE project is not about righteously uncovering government mismanagement of resources but consolidating Trump’s power by weakening government operations that he doesn’t directly control or don’t align with his agenda. @bernybelvedere.bsky.social

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These are only some of the lies Elon Musk mass-amplified about USAID in order to create a public rationale for feeding it to the wood chipper. @bernybelvedere.bsky.social

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disinformation, straight up methodical lying about these various programs

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“Trump’s executive order seeking to conceptually reengineer American citizenship so that it better aligns with his nativist vision is unconstitutional, deeply immoral, and against U.S. economic interests.” @bernybelvedere.bsky.social

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Here's my latest showing how Musk's preposterous lies about USAID, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Social Security Administration, served to underwrite DOGE's rampage against them.

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