
Jonathan Chait
Staff Writer at The Atlantic
Writer for the Atlantic. Tweets with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story
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3 days ago |
businessandamerica.com | Jonathan Chait
Shortly before taking office, Donald Trump promised his supporters that he’d have “the most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history.” And, well, his second administration certainly hasn’t been ordinary. Historians tend to rate presidencies by the breadth of their accomplishments, on a scale ranging from ineffectual to transformative. The classic measuring stick for 100-day achievements is the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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4 days ago |
businessandamerica.com | Jonathan Chait
Of the innumerable insults directed at Donald Trump and his supporters, the one that seems to get under their skin the most is “woke right.” The epithet describes the Trump movement’s tendency to counter left-wing illiberalism with a mirror-image replica.
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5 days ago |
theatlantic.com | Jonathan Chait
Remember the days after President Joe Biden’s barely-coherent debate performance, when Democratic dead-enders insisted that nothing was the matter? That was embarrassing. But apparently it wasn’t so embarrassing that everybody took away the correct lesson, because something similar is now happening between Senator John Fetterman and a coterie of admirers on the right.
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5 days ago |
rsn.org | Jonathan Chait
A 2011 book by Pat Buchanan shows the deep roots of today’s right-wing illiberalism. Of the innumerable insults directed at Donald Trump and his supporters, the one that seems to get under their skin the most is “woke right.” The epithet describes the Trump movement’s tendency to counter left-wing illiberalism with a mirror-image replica.
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1 week ago |
theatlantic.com | Jonathan Chait
Of the innumerable insults directed at Donald Trump and his supporters, the one that seems to get under their skin the most is “woke right.” The epithet describes the Trump movement’s tendency to counter left-wing illiberalism with a mirror-image replica.
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On the hackishness of the right-wing dismissal of Fetterman's mental health struggles https://t.co/kh8lrrSTvb https://t.co/5SVVQT46qD

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