Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,The state party’s anti-gay dumpster-fire election.Rep. Denver Riggleman (Left) and the President (Right) (Shutterstock / GettyImages)The gay wedding bell tolled for Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Virginia) on Saturday as he was defeated by homophobic gadfly and former Liberty University official Bob Good in a jury-rigged “drive-thru” convention that was animated by a single issue: Riggleman’s openness to gay marriage—or, more to the point, his decency and willingness to treat gays as human beings.This bizarre primary defeat of an incumbent congressman is...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,The state party’s anti-gay dumpster-fire election.Rep. Denver Riggleman (Left) and the President (Right) (Shutterstock / GettyImages)The gay wedding bell tolled for Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Virginia) on Saturday as he was defeated by homophobic gadfly and former Liberty University official Bob Good in a jury-rigged “drive-thru” convention that was animated by a single issue: Riggleman’s openness to gay marriage—or, more to the point, his decency and willingness to treat gays as human beings.This bizarre primary defeat of an incumbent congressman is...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.Marco Rubio doesn’t read Twitter, he only writes on it. This would not be a terrible policy, if one were abiding by it. But Marco Rubio is not abiding by it. He is just telling a really dumb and obvious lie because he doesn’t have the hands to criticize Donald Trump.Rubio’s latest pathetic Twitter lie was the result of his being asked an inconvenient question about the president of the United States’s most recent monstrous tweet, in which he accused 75-year-old protester Martin Gugino—who was pushed down by police and left to bleed like an unwanted...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.Marco Rubio doesn’t read Twitter, he only writes on it. This would not be a terrible policy, if one were abiding by it. But Marco Rubio is not abiding by it. He is just telling a really dumb and obvious lie because he doesn’t have the hands to criticize Donald Trump.Rubio’s latest pathetic Twitter lie was the result of his being asked an inconvenient question about the president of the United States’s most recent monstrous tweet, in which he accused 75-year-old protester Martin Gugino—who was pushed down by police and left to bleed like an unwanted...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,And that's kind of the point.(Photo by Ben Gabbe/Getty Images)This week America tallied the 75,000th official death from COVID-19—the real number won’t be known until after the crisis has passed and will be much higher.Last week the 30 millionth unemployment claim was submitted.Amidst this death and destruction the president of the United States has been spending his days pecking around on his iPhone, tweeting that certain cable TV hosts are and and that the husband of his top strategist is a “” loser. Oh, and he claimed—again—that the opposition...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,And that's kind of the point.(Photo by Ben Gabbe/Getty Images)This week America tallied the 75,000th official death from COVID-19—the real number won’t be known until after the crisis has passed and will be much higher.Last week the 30 millionth unemployment claim was submitted.Amidst this death and destruction the president of the United States has been spending his days pecking around on his iPhone, tweeting that certain cable TV hosts are and and that the husband of his top strategist is a “” loser. Oh, and he claimed—again—that the opposition...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.It's going on right now and no one can see it because of the chaff.(Collage by Hannah Yoest / photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)The Washington Post published a picture of Stacey Abrams wearing a cape this weekend.You may have seen it, since in of the conservative news media, this fawning coverage of the becaped former state representative and vice-presidential hopeful was the single most noteworthy piece of news from the weekend.And I’d like to preface the impending rant by saying, for the record, that in the narrowest possible sense, these...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.It's going on right now and no one can see it because of the chaff.(Collage by Hannah Yoest / photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)The Washington Post published a picture of Stacey Abrams wearing a cape this weekend.You may have seen it, since in of the conservative news media, this fawning coverage of the becaped former state representative and vice-presidential hopeful was the single most noteworthy piece of news from the weekend.And I’d like to preface the impending rant by saying, for the record, that in the narrowest possible sense, these...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,But of course Trump World is pretending otherwise.United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice (R) answers reporters' questions during a press briefing at the White House February 28, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Well, I guess we can .Yesterday the Keystone Spooks leading the Trump intelligence regime fully declassified the “” Susan Rice email that was at the heart of their . The email had been written by Rice to herself to memorialize a meeting with President Obama’s national security team about Gen. Michael Flynn’s...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,But of course Trump World is pretending otherwise.United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice (R) answers reporters' questions during a press briefing at the White House February 28, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Well, I guess we can .Yesterday the Keystone Spooks leading the Trump intelligence regime fully declassified the “” Susan Rice email that was at the heart of their . The email had been written by Rice to herself to memorialize a meeting with President Obama’s national security team about Gen. Michael Flynn’s...WW…