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The Republican establishment is on the verge of extinction. Donald Trump’s first term wasn’t enough to kill it off: Trump came into office in 2017 with establishment figures such as Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan leading the party in Congress, and Trump’s own vice president, Mike Pence, had been chosen for that role as a reassurance to the old guard... This time, though, things are very different. Though congressional Republicans have yet to become thoroughly MAGA, there’s no longer a sense that GOP leaders in the House or Senate represent a distinct political brand of their own, as McConnell and...

Like all good flimfam artists, President Trump is a master of misdirection. As Americans grow increasingly skeptical of his inflationary tariffs, deficit-swelling tax cuts and senseless push to gut federal agencies and research, he floods the zone with a firehose of falsehoods to shift media and public attention elsewhere. Take his grandstanding plan to dispatch U.S. troops to Chicago and other cities, as he’s already done to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. It’s a classic “wag the dog” ploy with a Trumpian twist: Instead of fabricating a foreign military crisis to divert voters from their domestic woes, he’s invading America’s...

Former Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger says Donald Trump has picked the “future of the Republican Party” after selecting JD Vance to be his running mate in this year’s presidential election. “He’s picked someone who can be the presidential candidate in 2028 when I’m not sure the others could have been as powerful as Vance,” he told Sky News Australia. “So, he’s picked someone for the future.”

Trump needs a true fighter and a real friend in his corner as his running mate — and there’s only one man who fits the bill. Jan. 20, 2025, will mark the first day of the most important four years of our lifetimes. That’s the day President Trump will place his hand on a Bible, take the oath of office, and end the disasters Joe Biden created at home and abroad. It’s the day the effort to save America will truly begin. President Trump is undoubtedly the man for this moment, but as our 47th president, he will face even...