Updated Crash Course: The time for Trump denial is over

Republicans are really nominating Donald Trump [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbzFzbmc4a2ZrNS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2JXA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvOWJpbGJvaHM0NS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2ImbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcDVnejRmZXJ6bS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2JXA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbXFwM3NwNmI0dS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2JXA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNGE1Nm93ZWc2ci8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2JXA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdzFhM2I5OXZuZi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2JXA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcHhvaGhqaXB0di8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2JXA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo Republicans are really nominating Donald Trump Unfortunately, this is indeed happening: Trump is the Republican nominee. The good news is that most people do start to accept even surreal realities, once the facts on the ground become unavoidable. Most 2024 election polls were conducted with nearly half of respondents thinking it was silly to ask about Trump as a candidate. Now that they know it's an accurate portrayal of the year to come, most will get back on board the Stop Trump train. [A Tuesday report from Politico suggests this shift](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvYnRkM3Nodmo3ai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2JXA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) may already be happening. Polls show that Trump will struggle "to win back the people he’s alienated, including those once willing to vote Republican." Meanwhile, while Biden's approval ratings are shaky, he seems to be solidifying votes from those leaning his way faster than Trump is doing with maybe-Republican voters. [Read more from Amanda Marcotte.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMG8zZ2NyaWZ2Ni8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2ImbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) ~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvaTEzaHdoZzIxYy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2JXA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbDJubXB2Ymw1aS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2JXA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbXFrcjB6NGhyMC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2JXA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveTRuMnphMTdtdi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2JXA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo It's time for a Jan. 6 counterfactual Trump and his Republican supporters were not deterred by their failed coup on Jan. 6. It was a trial run for another coup. Three years later and after numerous investigations, many questions remain about the events of that horrible day: - Where did all the money come from that financed the Jan. 6 conspiracy? - Why are these donors and other financiers not being investigated and prosecuted? - "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was an active participant in the coup plot. Why has she not been investigated properly and charged with crimes? What role would Justice Thomas play if the “disputed” election had come before the Supreme Court? - How close was the United States to martial law? - And most importantly, what would have happened if Trump’s coup attempt on Jan. 6 had succeeded? [Read more here](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMGVhbXRueDNxci8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2ImbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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With Children](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnk6eCP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvY2d2OHllNWVycS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXNtYjE0dTV3d2ImbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZaKEIrFlJFJvw1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo)" co-star Amanda Bearse Before you go ... The GOP primary is in a parallel universe. Republicans are about to get a reality shock From Lucian Truscott: You could of course write the whole parallel universe thing off to yet another successful Trumpian effort to come up with a world of lies and put them across with more aplomb than a cable TV preacher, but I think it’s more than that. The whole thing of having a presidential primary race isn’t just falling apart, it has gone away completely. Trump is left with a single opponent, whom he cannot distinguish from Nancy Pelosi, a Republican boogey-woman nobody else in the Republican Party can remember the name of either, most of them having switched their boogey-people to her successor, Kevin McCarthy, and then quickly to someone whose name they didn’t know in the first place, Mike “I’m Gobbling White Bread and Mayo As Fast As I Can” Johnson. Talk about a lack of imagination! What happened with labeling somebody from the other party as the enemy? Geeeez… See what I mean? Not only are there parallel universes, but one of them is upside down and spinning backward. 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