Me in Roll Call on Trump's legal positioning re impeachment and immunity.

“It’s a multitude of arguments that if you can lay them all out next to each other, it’s really a structure for nearly complete unaccountability,” Nunziata said.

rollcall.com/2024/04/29/sup…

'Republicans are [in] an ideological contraction,' writes
Jonathan V. Last. 'As MAGA consolidates its ownership of the GOP, the party is purging all non-MAGA Republicans.'

Democrats 'are more ideologically diverse,' he argues—and should 'lean into' this advantage. lnk.thebulwark.com/3xWemel

“I’m a lifelong Republican up until a few years ago when I left the party largely because of its complete loyalty and sellout to Donald Trump…My plan is to vote for Joe Biden…because it‘s imperative that Trump not be elected”

Via Republican Voters Against Trump

>> John Avlon: 'As a journalist who’s been chronicling the crazies for a long time and has covered two Trump cycles this is one of those times in American history where I think every generation needs to step up and defend democracy.' nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Yeah…we can’t believe it either.

.Sarah Longwell on the Time magazine piece about what a second Trump term would look like:

“It’s terrifying...The things that were laid out in this piece show that people are right to be afraid.”

Philly friends—Come see Tim Miller Sarah Longwell Jonathan V. Last Bill Kristol and Will Saletan (wsaletan on Threads) tomorrow night (5/1) in the city of brotherly love.

bulwarkinpa.rsvpify.com

Todays guest Peter Wehner! On how to blend faith and politics (and how not to).

Plus reaction to the Bill Barr/Kaitlan Collins interview, the evolution of Mike Johnson, and assessing why Joe Biden’s numbers don’t match the results.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

JVL on why we don't have presidential blowouts anymore. (even when one candidate is rage posting and dozing off through multiple criminal trials) thebulwark.com/p/why-isnt-bid…

Don from South Carolina: “I am an ex-Trump voter…I cannot stress enough that I’m scared to death about Donald Trump returning to the White House…We cannot let Donald Trump ever see the inside of the White House again.”

Donna from Tennessee: “I voted for Trump in 2016 and again in 2020, but I’m not gonna vote for him in 2024…A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for democracy…We’re not gonna make it if Trump’s in office.”

This ad isn’t funny per se. More a stomach churning parody as we watch Republican “leaders” say they’ll vote for Trump even though he tried to overturn an election. Partisan Derangement Syndrome robs you of whatever moral instincts you once had.

I know Barr is in a lot of rooms where when you say Biden is worse than Trump everyone moronically nods along. It’s gospel within the tribe. But listening to him try and actually defend it to someone providing pushback reveals just how preposterous the position is.

“Now conservatism has degenerated into rabble-rousing populism in politics, anti-intellectualism in ideas, and Know-Nothingism in civic life. Accordingly, originalism in the courts has become sophism…American conservatism has died in Trumpism.” thebulwark.com/p/trump-melts-…

My latest in The Economist.

This is emblematic of the crisis in the conservative legal movement. If you can see that someone on 'your team' waged war on the Constitution and you still support him, you're not any kind of conservative, certainly not a legal one.

Reading the transcript of Bill Barr's interview on CNN last night in full really drives home the false equivalency he's attempting to draw.

The idea that regular policy issues (border/clean energy regs/school curriculum) represent the same kind of threat to democracy that Trump

Abortion has become a defining feature of the 2024 election in Arizona. Washington Post’s ⁦Yvonne Wingett Sanchez⁩, Arizona-based democracy reporter, joins me as we listen to AZ women across the political spectrum discuss abortion politics. It’s really good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Don’t ever let these so-called conservatives pretend they care one iota about the United States Constitution.

Bill Barr on @cnn claiming Biden poses a bigger threat to democracy than Trump—who attempted to overturn the will of 81 million voters and helped incite an insurrection—is laughable.

He cited Dems’ wanting to control what stoves and cars we use as a greater danger. What a joke.