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2020 Election

Fox News is spreading the “Big Lie.” What will Paul Ryan do about it?

John Fea   |  May 5, 2021

Paul Ryan, the GOP candidate for vice-president in 2012 and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, sits on the Fox Corporation’s board of directors. I’ll let Charlie Sykes takes it from here in a piece titled “Paul Ryan, It’s […]

The DNC is collecting opposition research on potential 2022 GOP candidates, including Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell

John Fea   |  May 5, 2021

Yes, you read that title correctly. Here is Alex Thompson and Daniel Payne at the Politico West Wing playbook: The Democratic National Committee has quietly assembled a core team that is focused not just on the 2022 midterms but on […]

Change over time: A historical look at Liz Cheney’s years in the House of Representatives

John Fea   |  May 5, 2021

It looks like Liz Cheney will lose her leadership position in the GOP caucus because she does not believe Joe Biden stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump. The pro-Trump sharks are swarming. The GOP House leadership will not […]

What evangelicals are saying (and not saying) about Liz Cheney’s recent statements about the 2020 election

John Fea   |  May 4, 2021

CNN gets us up to speed: Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, said on Monday her party cannot accept the “poison” of the idea that the 2020 election was stolen and should not “whitewash” the January 6 […]

What happens in a two-party system when one of the parties is delusional?

John Fea   |  May 3, 2021

According to Charles Pierce, “the whole system goes out of balance.” Here is a taste of his Esquire piece on the GOP’s new initiation rite: It appears that the cult driving modern conservatism—and the Republican Party, which is its outward […]

Eric Metaxas responds to Joe Biden’s claim that the January 6 insurrection was the “worst attack on democracy since the Civil War”

John Fea   |  April 29, 2021

Was Biden right? It’s hard to say. Historians will have different opinions about where the January 6, 2021 insurrection fits on the “attacks on democracy” scale. For example, one might find Jim Crow, Pearl Harbor, or September 11th somewhere on […]

More than half of Republicans still believe Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election

John Fea   |  April 12, 2021

CNN’s Harry Enten reports on the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll: A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 55% of Republicans falsely believe Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election was the result of illegal voting or rigging. Additionally, 60% of Republicans incorrectly agree […]

The New Republic gives Eric Metaxas a platform

John Fea   |  April 5, 2021

The magazine is hosting a “conversation” between court evangelical Eric Metaxas and conservative writer Matt Labash titled, “An Epic Debate on Trump and True Evangelicalism.” The whole thing is pretty disgusting. Here is a taste of Metaxas’s side of the […]

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