Filed Under: “Republican Party”
Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate says he has to hide true views on abortion to get elected
By Emily Singer
Glenn Youngkin said he won’t talk publicly about some of his more severe positions on abortion because that ‘won’t win my independent votes that I have to get.’
Republicans are banking on a fusion of Trump autocracy and McConnell nihilism, but will it work for them?
By Matthew Sheffield
As conservative elites have embraced a strategy of culture war manipulation, the rest of America is finally understanding how to respond
Naive mainstream journalists are helping Republicans lie about ‘critical race theory’
By Eric Boehlert
Facing low turnout without Donald Trump on 2022 election ballots, GOP activists are manufacturing a fake controversy, with assistance from gullible reporters
National journalists are still afraid to tell the truth about GOP extremism
By Eric Boehlert
Republicans across the country are actively embracing authoritarianism but conventional journalists are acting as if it’s all Trump’s doing
Extremists mobilizing in Republican primaries to take out party leaders
By David Neiwert
Covid deniers and conspiracy theorists have been let loose in the Western states
Charlie Kirk wants to save America in the name of Republican Jesus
By Matthew Boedy
After pushing a secular, libertarian-oriented worldview, the Turning Point USA founder has decided to get in on the God business
Have Trump Republicans lost their grip on reality, or are they just lying to pollsters?
By Matthew Sheffield
Surveys keep finding that GOP respondents believe falsehoods, but what if they’re just lying in support of the party?
Liz Cheney won’t be the last casualty of conservatism’s epistemic collapse
By Matthew Sheffield
The intellectual destruction of Christian fundamentalism has caused the American right to believe that truth is entirely the product of social power
As Tucker Carlson moves to the extreme right, Republicans are using his name to raise money
By Peter Montgomery