Adele Stan

1 month ago | democracyjournal.org | Adele Stan

In 1964, when I was seven years old, my family took a day trip to the New Jersey State Fair. Displayed were the wonders produced by the agricultural lands in southern and western parts of the state. None stay much in my memory. What does stick with me is the booth for the Republican presidential candidate, where one could purchase a bottle filled with a clear liquid that was the color of marigolds. Gold water, see? If I recall correctly, the booth wasn’t getting a lot of action.

Feb 3, 2025 | newrepublic.com | Adele Stan

I attended the 2018 annual Eagle Council gathering in St. Louis, emceed by Martin, where a gaggle of Bannon-aligned influencers and bloggers, including Jack Posobiec and Pamela Geller, appeared, and at which former White House national security adviser retired Gen. Michael Flynn, the QAnon fan, received an award. And I was there the following year when an award was conferred upon Hungary’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orbán, a Bannon favorite.

Feb 3, 2025 | yahoo.com | Adele Stan

On Inauguration Day, President Donald J. Trump appointed former right-wing radio talk-show host Ed Martin to serve as the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. A week later, Martin, a leader in the so-called Stop the Steal movement that fed the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021, announced a review of the files of all January 6 defendants (since pardoned by the president) who had been charged with obstructing a government proceeding.

May 10, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Adele Stan

If you’d known what to look for, you could have seen it coming miles and miles away: the demise of movement conservatism in the face of Trumpism. The only thing surprising about the collapse of FreedomWorks, the loud and splashy libertarian astroturf outfit, is that it hadn’t happened sooner. On Wednesday, the group abruptly announced that it had been dissolved by its board.

Feb 27, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Adele Stan

Walking through this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, it was easy to be underwhelmed.