Is Mark Robinson a GOP fluke or an inevitability of MAGA conservatism?
26 Sep
Politics

Is Mark Robinson a GOP fluke or an inevitability of MAGA conservatism?

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Politics tamfitronics Robinson has a documented history of making racist and bigoted remarks about Jewish people, women and the LGBTQ+ community(Image credit: Grant Baldwin / Getty Images) published 25 September 2024 The allegations were salacious. The fallout, immediate.It's been just days since CNN published a deeply reported story detailing the wildly offensive comments allegedly left on an adult website's message board by North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson. In that short time, the state's already-contentious 2024 governor's race has been upended, as strategists from both parties scramble to recalibrate with less than two months until election day. Robinson, currently serving as North Carolina's Lieutenant Governor, has denied the allegations that he called himself a "black Nazi" who endorsed slavery, describing CNN's report as "tabloid trash" while vowing to remain in the race against...
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The elephant and donkey are gone. What’s next for Political Pattie’s?
26 Sep
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The elephant and donkey are gone. What’s next for Political Pattie’s?

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Politics tamfitronics Sydney Bradford and Drew Benbow have seen the comments. And they’re not going to lie, some of the feedback they’ve received about their politics-themed bar on U Street, which soft-launched last Friday, has stung.“The worst GW student you can think of is going to want to go,” one X user posted. “How long did it take Deloitte to come up with this bar concept and how much did it cost, I really must know,” read another post from earlier this month.“When someone says your baby is ugly it hurts,” Bradford said on Monday of the bar, which they named Political Pattie’s. “But we can’t take things too personally.”Instead, Bradford, an attorney who started her legal career as assistant counsel with the Senate sergeant-at-arms,...
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How Immigration Became a Lightning Rod in American Politics
26 Sep
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How Immigration Became a Lightning Rod in American Politics

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Politics tamfitronics Feature / September 25, 2024Anti-immigrant think tanks and advocacy groups operated on the margins until Trump became president. Now they have molded not only the GOP but also Democrats in their image.Photomontage by The Nation.On one of his few lucid moments during the only debate of the 2024 election cycle between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the sitting president suggested he would be tougher on the border than his predecessor, blaming the former president for the demise of a “bipartisan border deal” that would have boosted the Border Patrol’s funding and significantly reduced access to asylum. Biden and top congressional Democrats had spent months negotiating its provisions, granting more and more concessions to conservatives in the hopes that they’d stop claiming that Biden had lost control of the southern border. But “when...
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