The final reason is antisemitism. Influencers like Candace Owens are promoting antisemitic conspiracies about Jews and Israel and those ideas are gaining traction with young conservatives. @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social had a great write-up on this over on Vox. www.vox.com/politics/466...

The 2025 elections revealed just how important federalism has been in constraining Trump's autocratic ambitions www.vox.com/politics/467...

The only people our religion require to attend Shabbat dinner are adult Jewish children who live within driving distance of their mothers

I've read these paragraphs several times right now, in full context, and I simply do not understand how they're supposed to make any sense

As I've written, there are no major constituencies left in the GOP willing to go to the mat to fight racism. Trump beat them. But there *are* some factions with real muscle that care quite a bit about antisemitism and Israel — so much so that they're willing to wage a full-blown civil war over them

Ben Shapiro is outright trying to kick Tucker Carlson out of the conservative movement in this video. The right's civil war is truly here www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaRJ...

“JD Vance’s refusal to forcefully condemn the infamous Young Republicans group chat” illustrates “No Enemies to the Right” aka “NETTR” (a motto coined by Claremont Institute donor Charles Haywood), which has combined with the “technological revolution” to unfurl a “red carpet for…antisemites…” 1/

One of the most excruciating sports watching experiences…ever?

I can’t believe this game

Not a strike

this is agonizing

Funniest possible outcome to that at bat

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...

Scolding people for being shocked is bad. "You don't pay as much attention to the world as I do" isn't great for broadening a coalition. Also, "all bad stuff is the same" is wrong. Refusal to gate-keep Nazis from a major party *is* new. And it's valuable to remain shocked by things you can explain.

Charter member of the Leopards Eating People's Faces party

I've got a plan for solving this mismatch www.vox.com/politics/466...

“the goal is to make a few more high-profile examples that change the calculations of the many. If there are perceived risks on the consumer end that counterbalance the government pressures to do something like take Kimmel off the air, then CEOs might approach their overall positioning differently”

Or as I like to say: NOW BEHOLD THE AWFUL PRICE OF TREASON!

There is a disconnect in America today: Trump is deeply unpopular facing mass resistance from citizens. But elites keep rolling over for Trump anyway. What to do? An organized boycott campaign. Here's how it would work, and why it could very well change elite behavior www.vox.com/politics/466...

Not a big baseball watcher normally - football eats enough of my time - but my wife is a big Jays fan so I’ve been watching this whole playoff run. And, man, October baseball is fun!

Wrote about this exact dynamic at length this week www.vox.com/politics/466...

The tech right is at once obsessed with Tolkien and utterly unable to comprehend what his books are actually about

This week, Welcome PAC released its case for Democrats to moderate. I spoke with the author of its report, and pressed him on (nearly) every prominent, progressive objection to his analysis, including this one: www.vox.com/politics/466...

Good piece, reminded me of this from John ganz a while back

In the wake of Tucker interviewing Nick Fuentes for his show, now is a good time to read @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social's latest on the GOP's struggle to keep antisemites in the tent without going full nazi

Has Trump actually ended any wars? www.vox.com/politics/466...

Good piece by @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social, who is always worth reading www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This morning, I published a long piece on how the MAGA mainstream was letting an explicit antisemites into the movement. www.vox.com/politics/466... Tonight, Tucker Carlson hosted Hitler fan Nick Fuentes on his podcast for a friendly chat

WHC has been my synagogue for nearly my entire life. The incremental updates we got, most notably the news coverage, made it seem as if Silverman was assuredly guilty. Radley shows he clearly wasn't. And frankly, I feel betrayed.

There is real and growing recognition — at conservatism’s highest levels — that they have an antisemitism problem. It raises a troubling question: Why do so many of the party’s youth operatives get seduced by neo-Nazism? Read more from @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/dyVq2T

I had a lot of fun on this one

Good read by @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social summing up the "civil war" over antisemitism -- and Israel -- within MAGA.

the thing ill add about this excellent piece is the data here may explain why some Ds are so hesitant to toss controversial nominees to the curb

Republican elites have recently begun panicking about rising antisemitism among the conservative base. And they're right: this is a crisis. But it's one that is, in large part, of their own making www.vox.com/politics/466...

Me, one year ago: If Trump wins, he will use the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to try and undermine the fairness of elections Justice Department, today:

I think that the next step in the civil resistance campaign to Trump should be inflicting punishment on elites and institutions who cave. They need to understand that there are costs to compliance

approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...

It's a good ad

Look, I think Trump vandalizing the White House is gross too. But I think some of the way we're talking about this is falling into the trap where liberals seem to care more about abstract norms and decorum than actual problems.

The more I think about it, the more I think this isn't even a close call. There are lots of other candidates in that primary!

Reforming the GOP is indeed the best way out of America's crisis in the long term. The scary thing is that no one has even the outlines of a credible plan for how to do that

American politics is in a totally good place

Usually when dictators loot the treasury, they have the wisdom to do it quietly www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Excellent piece, one of the best I've read on big-picture world politics in a long time. The thesis boils down to: what if the future is weakness? www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

You may think that the shift away from text-based political conversation is bad. But if you spend some time watching popular YouTube shows, as I have recently, you realize it's so much worse

Former presidents can go to jail if they are guilty of criminal offenses without causing democracy to collapse www.bbc.com/news/article...

And even this isn't good enough! You need the reporter to *agree* that it's off the record, otherwise it's the equivalent of Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy

A+ baseball, no notes

I'm in the midst of a project in which I'm reading basically every paper published on resisting democratic backsliding. The reason that's even possible is because there aren't very many papers on resisting democratic backsliding

It's wild that the president posted a video of him dumping actual shit all over Americans who disagree with him and it's just treated as the way things are now