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President Donald Trump has managed to effortlessly hijack the Republican Party’s propaganda machine to dominate the public discourse on his policies — no matter how unpopular or hurtful. But there comes a time when every machine pops a cog and careens into a wall. For decades, the Republican Party has enjoyed the benefit of an army of propagandists parading as “news” to spread Republican talking points . Later that propaganda network expanded to include a legion of MAGA influencers and paid entertainers to broadcast GOP policies and arguments. More recently Trump has lumbered into the captain’s chair of that same propaganda network. But critics tell MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace that Captain Trump appears to have steered his ship into an iceberg. “There's a lot of anger out there,” former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller told Wallace. “I think there's a lot of things that … Democrats should be able to channel with voters. I mean, you've got Donald Trump's buddy beco...

The Dispatch ‘s national correspondent, Kevin D. Williamson, wants to ask Republicans a question. He points to the $270 it takes to fill up the tank of a Ford Super Duty truck in his neighborhood — 48 gallons at $5.60 a gallon for diesel — and asks, “Do you feel smart?” Citing a column by The New York Times’ Bret Stephens, Williamson weighs the pros and cons of voters electing candidates to achieve results over voters choosing “paragons of moral rectitude.” “There is something to be said for that approach,” writes Williamson. “One of the problems with our politics is that politicians—especially presidents—are treated as embodiments of the nation, the people, and our values, to such an extent that members of a party feel alienated and humiliated when the other party’s leader occupies the White House.” He concludes that for partisans, “inconvenient facts necessitate a kind of rhetorical two-step.” “There are proud Trump cultists and there are embarrassed Trump cultists, and, if you pre...

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Art of the Deal Co-author Tony Schwartz predicts Trump is destined to make history — just not the side of it he probably wants. MS NOW anchor Ari Melber asked Schwartz to comment on Trump’s most recent slate of gaffes, particularly his devastating claim that he “loves” the inflation currently racking voters and threatening to destroy his own Republican Party in the November midterms. “It's demented. I mean, it's so self-destructive,” said Schwartz, who described Trump as an addict who acts as a kind of “black hole.” “And you pour stuff into it. And he poured it in and maxed out when he was reelected president. And it looked fantastic. But it seeped out incredibly quickly. And then he has to keep upping the ante and chasing the high. And so now where he's at is there's no high to chase. So that's just that's just a piece of self-destructiveness. He's going to go down as the worst president in the history of this country,” said Schwartz, the founder of consu...

According to longtime Intelligencer political columnist Ed Kilgore , there are “alarming” signs that Republican lawmakers are “giving” up on winning the midterms in favor of jamming through as much of their agenda as possible before losing power. Evidence, he suggests, is in the fact that they are now focusing on passing unpopular safety net cuts to fund President Donald Trump’s unpopular war. As Kilgore explains, you can see this trend emerging in Trump and the Republicans’ multiple budget reconciliation bills. They’ve just passed their second, which was kept “skinny” compared to last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which itself was, asserts Kilgore, “a vast smorgasbord of conservative policy initiatives and attempted voter bribes.” Republicans managed to keep reconciliation 2.0 narrowed to a few key priorities and thereby ensured its passage by promising to tackle all the other wide-ranging concerns held by different factions in a third bill before the midterms. But while Kilgore say...

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