This is the future of the party.
10.03.2026 20:11
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This is the future of the party.
The US has, in slightly over a year, torched what was once one of the best repositories of legal talent (the DOJ) in favor of...uh...total hacks now struggling under an impossible workload made all the more impossible by an administration that is acting without even the faintest color of law.
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
That the US bears equal responsibility for this war, if not more than Israel.
Again, why are you believing them? Just because Israeli hawks have wanted war for a long time doesn't mean US hawks haven't wanted it too. Trump has been pushing for a war with Iran since before Bibi ever ran for office.
“A documentary that’s about women would be DEI.”
A clearer admission that “anti-DEI” is just a smokescreen for discrimination, you couldn’t ask for.
Remember when Roberts told us that the constitutional rule against discrimination goes to the substance of the thing, not the name? Yeah, me too.
Tweet from TN Rep. Andy Ogles saying that "Muslims don't belong in American society"
The absolute most disgusting, eliminationist Islamophobia from multiple members of the House Republican caucus continues to spew forth without acknowledgment or censure
Was away for a bit, see that some on here decided to outrage farm about a tweet I didn't write for an article of mine they didn't read or link. Since that seems to be the preferred mode of consumption, here are a few other headlines! Always do the reading; don't let the engagement farmers con you.
Other points of note:
- Analysis of a phenomenon ≠ approval
- People and political actors who are extreme or radical can become more extreme or radical (see: American politics over the last decade, Trump I vs Trump II)
- There is a difference between covert and overt conflict in geopolitics
In 1980, NBC interviewed a young Trump about the ongoing Iran hostage crisis. He did not hold back. “That this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages, to my way of thinking, is a horror, and I don’t think they’d do it with other countries,” he said. When the interviewer asked if that meant “you’re advocating that we should have gone in there with troops,” Trump replied, “I absolutely feel that, yes,” adding that had America done so, “I think right now we’d be an oil-rich nation.” (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said that he had dreamed of being able to “smite the terror regime” in Iran for 40 years; it turns out Trump had him beat.) In 1987, the Times reported that Trump declared in a New Hampshire speech that “the United States should attack Iran and seize some of its oil fields in retaliation for what he called Iran’s bullying of America.” In 1988, Trump told The Guardian that “I’d be harsh on Iran. They’ve been beating us psychologically, making us look a bunch of fools.”
I don't think many people realize that Trump has been talking about Iran like this since 1980: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
ME IN JANUARY: Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon are not pro-Trump, do not represent him or his base, and are in fact seeking to supplant him and reshape the party in their own image.
TRUMP TODAY: "Tucker Carlson has lost his way" and "he's not MAGA."
Maybe now the rest of the discourse can catch up!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Could be, but again, this survey like others found massive support overall from Republican voters, regardless of whether they identify as MAGA. MAGA is just higher. But the MAGA point matters b/c there are a bunch of influencers (Tucker, Bannon, Greene) pretending to represent MAGA when they don't.
Louder again for the folks in the back still doing the "MAGA is abandoning Trump" thing:
- 94% of MAGA or Trump Conservatives say they approve of Iran campaign
- 84% of Trump voters overall say they approve of the campaign
(Vandenberg Coalition/TargetPoint poll)
vandenbergcoalition.org/mar_survey/
Harry Enten tweet: Trump's right: his endorsements are gold in GOP primaries. He's like a Ruth or Brady for the GOP. Most people he endorses wins, & even most challengers win vs. incumbents. No wonder: Trump has the highest own party approval of any 21st century prez at this point in term 2.
CNN's Harry Enten: "Trump has the highest own-party approval of any 21st century prez at this point in term 2." Remember this the next time someone tries to sell you the zombie narrative that "MAGA is abandoning Trump."
As I write in the piece, there is a difference between Trump's coalition and his base. What has actually been happening is that Trump (largely through the bad economy) has been alienating low propensity swing voters from his coalition, but his MAGA base and Republicans in general remain with him.
Operation Midnight Hammer. Venezuela. Now Epic Fury. Again and again, stories claim that MAGA is mad with Trump for betraying America First principles. Again and again, polls show that nope, they're not. I wrote about this myth and why it won't die here (gift link):
"As a point of reference, 5 polls are out on Operation Epic Fury. On average, 72.2% of Republicans approve of Trump's action, and only 14.4% disapprove. The rest are unsure/have no opinion."
For those asking, the same support holds true for Republicans overall. But that number goes UP for MAGA Republicans in particular, which is the opposite of the narrative you hear about MAGA people supposedly being the ones mad at Trump for betraying America First principles.
Should the U.S. have taken military action against Iran? (Among MAGA) 🟢 Yes: 90% 🔴 No: 5% NBC poll | 2/27-3/3
Every single time:
1. Trump does something hawkish on foreign affairs
2. Breathless stories are written about MAGA being mad and schisming, quoting the same three people (Tucker, Bannon, Greene)
3. Polls show that MAGA Republicans support Trump's move 160%-3%
Nathaniel has started throwing his food, and we keep telling him no and stopping him.
So now he’s trying to throw every other piece of food then agreeably eat the next one, and it’s very clear *he* thinks this is a perfectly reasonable compromise that meets us half way.
Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday. Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images
NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
It could not be more obvious that the president does not care about US service members and in fact regards their deaths as mere political inconveniences. He has more sympathy for Putin than Americans who died because he decided to wage illegal war. Just listen to him.
The president wore a red tie and a baseball cap to a ceremony in honor of fallen soldiers.
I can't stand Messianics any more than any self-respecting Jew, but this raises some genuinely knotty First Amendment issues.
The political version of the "what are you gonna do, stab me?" meme.
In the same way blaming Israel solely for the Iran war is a way of offloading responsibility and maintaining belief in the goodness of the US, Tucker Carlson saying Jews want to build the Third Temple allows him to ignore how much more powerful Christian Zionists are. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...
And the answer is simple: it’s because his beard and muscles and aesthetically blue collar oyster job make dweebs in Dem politics feel tough. Irresistible to men desperately insecure about their own masculinity because they subconsciously embrace MAGA’s core gender politics
There’s a million of these dudes and they kind of drift randomly between the far right and populist left, picking up bits from both, something he certainly shows some evidence of having done himself. But he’s being positioned as the Democratic savior… why?
Even if assume for the sake of argument that the guy is not a secret neo-Nazi, he seems to be a wealthy guy who is only vaguely ideological, who has spent years kicking around the vaguely populist, vaguely conspiratorial realm of Bro Politics, with a moderate-to-high dose of internet poisoning
What does he actually believe, in a sustained and demonstrable way? What motivates him? Why do we think he’d be good at the job, other than saying those things you want to hear? Why support him, instead of other people who say those things? Is it just because he has the aesthetic he has?
