"If Trump wins, we’re entering uncharted territory where private actors with vast wealth and power join with a corrupt president to pursue their own ends and not those of the people of the United States. Welcome to oligarchy, American style."

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trumps-american-oligarchy

"Consider the COVID-19 pandemic: It was obviously not a crisis of Trump’s making, but his almost complete failure of leadership made it much worse than it needed to be." Why would that be any different next time? ICYMI @cathyyoung63: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-next-crisis-vs-trumps-pandemic

"It’s not that I had an excessively high opinion of the virtues or judgment of the super-wealthy. But I assumed that, having done well in America, they’d be a 'conservative' force in more or less upholding the current political and economic order."

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/our-new-maga-oligarchs

It’s meant to be.

Todd Blanche didn’t like it when Michael Cohen called him a “crying little shit” on TikTok so we better make sure it doesn’t trend on here.
That would be terrible.

"Trump fears humiliation and invariably overcompensates by constantly portraying himself as someone 'perfect' in his conduct. And so, on trial, he apparently forces his lawyers to overreach." In that New York courtroom, too. New from Dennis Aftergut: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-stormy-daniels-cross-examination

"While almost all of them are doomed to eventual death—or perhaps we should call it completion, when there’s nothing left to write—these spunky publications are cultural resources." An appreciation of the old-school blog from @ad_mastro: https://www.thebulwark.com/the-bones-of-the-blogosphere/

"The Supreme Court hinted that maybe conservative legal theory was always a lie, too. Donald Trump, as always, is the great revealer." https://www.thebulwark.com/p/conservative-legal-philosophy-was

Facts don’t matter to SCOTUS or to House Republicans. But they matter to juries like the one empaneled for Trump’s trial in Manhattan. At long last, Trump is in a situation where he can't make it up as he goes. New from Dennis Aftergut: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-v-the-facts-scotus-manhattan

"The impeachment was preposterous. It was a nakedly political ploy, more damning in what it revealed about the GOP than in what it said about Mayorkas." Now that it's good and done, @wsaletan writes the deserved obituary for the Mayorkas impeachment: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/mayorkas-impeachment-travesty-dems-right-to-toss