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Sympathetic to the president

Thread: “Going to say again: Putin or Trump don't actually need to have anything on the GOP Congress to force their complicity”. Who stopped McCarthy? Sam Tanenhaus on what the history of Republican infighting can teach us today. National Review in the wilderness: The magazine was famously “Against Trump”, now it's anti-anti-Trump, and increasingly pro-Trump — what does it stand for now? American Affairs, a new journal sympathetic to the president, makes an uneven debut. Best known for her turn on The Apprentice, Omarosa Manigault — a former Democrat turned “Trumplican” — now holds an important position inside the White House; her rise has sent black Republicans into an existential crisis as they find themselves trying to get a seat at the table. Thousands of furious Trump fans can’t stop visiting a website that pretends Clinton won.