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Jeet Heer
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Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent at The Nation and the author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014).
Inciting violence may not win Trump the election. But it still advances his agenda.
Both parties are responding to the fact that America is being shadowed by death in a way it hasn’t been since the great wars of the last century.
Biden’s religion of good works is battling Trump’s Christian nationalism.
The GOP tries to peel off voters of color while Tucker Carlson calls for a race war.
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Eager to shore up the GOP base, the party’s convention has elevated QAnon, anti-suffragists, anti-Semites, and assorted weirdos.
It’s unfair to blame on substance abuse what is more likely due to existential despair.
The two presidential candidates have very different approaches to loss.
The storied orator frames the case against Trump as a matter of democracy and decency. But democracy also includes results.
The former first lady makes the personal case against Donald Trump.
Even if Trump loses in November, the influence of this unhinged conspiracy theory will only grow.
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