Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,Contempt for intellectuals and experts worsened the U.S. response to the pandemic and bodes ill for the current racial crisis.U.S. President Donald Trump pauses during a news briefing on the latest development of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. at the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House March 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced on Twitter that the U.S. and Canada will close their border to non-essential traffic to try and stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Precisely 100...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,Contempt for intellectuals and experts worsened the U.S. response to the pandemic and bodes ill for the current racial crisis.U.S. President Donald Trump pauses during a news briefing on the latest development of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. at the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House March 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced on Twitter that the U.S. and Canada will close their border to non-essential traffic to try and stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Precisely 100...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.The stakes are high for democracy and for the Democrats.Large boxes of envelopes are seen as absentee ballot election workers stuff ballot applications at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections office in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 4, 2020. - The US election is officially open: North Carolina on September 4, 2020 launched vote-by-mail operations for the November 3 contest between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, which is getting uglier by the day.Worries about the unabated spread of the coronavirus are expected to prompt a major...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.The stakes are high for democracy and for the Democrats.Large boxes of envelopes are seen as absentee ballot election workers stuff ballot applications at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections office in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 4, 2020. - The US election is officially open: North Carolina on September 4, 2020 launched vote-by-mail operations for the November 3 contest between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, which is getting uglier by the day.Worries about the unabated spread of the coronavirus are expected to prompt a major...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.The risks of loose talk about purging or punishing Democratic moderates like Joe Manchin.U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the nation about the new coronavirus relief package from the Rosevelt Room of The White House on February 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden urged the Senate to quickly pass his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which the House quickly approved earlier today (Photo by Samuel Corum-Pool/Getty Images)Barely a month into his presidency, Joe Biden is on the cusp of passing a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.The risks of loose talk about purging or punishing Democratic moderates like Joe Manchin.U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the nation about the new coronavirus relief package from the Rosevelt Room of The White House on February 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden urged the Senate to quickly pass his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which the House quickly approved earlier today (Photo by Samuel Corum-Pool/Getty Images)Barely a month into his presidency, Joe Biden is on the cusp of passing a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.The president wants to do to Ronald Reagan’s governing philosophy what Reagan did to FDR’s.(Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)Joe Biden is no Ronald Reagan.Seldom has a gibe so perfectly captured a transformation in America’s governing philosophy as : “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”Gone was the activist governance which had defined our politics since FDR’s New Deal. Reagan’s “free market” paradigm combined tax cuts and deregulation with Milton Friedman’s that...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.The president wants to do to Ronald Reagan’s governing philosophy what Reagan did to FDR’s.(Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)Joe Biden is no Ronald Reagan.Seldom has a gibe so perfectly captured a transformation in America’s governing philosophy as : “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”Gone was the activist governance which had defined our politics since FDR’s New Deal. Reagan’s “free market” paradigm combined tax cuts and deregulation with Milton Friedman’s that...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.Having already forsaken Republican principles and policies, his supporters are now willing to forsake reality, too.STERLING, VIRGINIA - NOVEMBER 22: U.S. President Donald Trump gives thumbs up to supporters from this motorcade after he golfed at Trump National Golf Club on November 22, 2020 in Sterling, Virginia. The previous day President Donald Trump left the G20 summit virtual event “Pandemic Preparedness” to visit one of his golf clubs as the virus has now killed more than 250,000 Americans. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)Donald Trump...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.Having already forsaken Republican principles and policies, his supporters are now willing to forsake reality, too.STERLING, VIRGINIA - NOVEMBER 22: U.S. President Donald Trump gives thumbs up to supporters from this motorcade after he golfed at Trump National Golf Club on November 22, 2020 in Sterling, Virginia. The previous day President Donald Trump left the G20 summit virtual event “Pandemic Preparedness” to visit one of his golf clubs as the virus has now killed more than 250,000 Americans. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)Donald Trump...WW…

Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,We’ve had a painful, vivid reminder of the danger of giving power to someone with Trump's pathologies. There's only one remaining check on this president—us.US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 2, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)Last Monday, Donald Trump treated America to a fascist tableau.A mix of federal and local law enforcement officers, including Secret Service and...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,We’ve had a painful, vivid reminder of the danger of giving power to someone with Trump's pathologies. There's only one remaining check on this president—us.US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 2, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)Last Monday, Donald Trump treated America to a fascist tableau.A mix of federal and local law enforcement officers, including Secret Service and...WW…