Let me begin with the uncomfortable truth: A rift, a deep divide has opened between Europe and the United States, Merz said. Vice President JD Vance said this a year ago here in Munich. He was right in his description, Merz said, as he called for a new transatlantic partnership. Referencing Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, Merz also warned that Europe did not need to move in the same political direction as the US, saying the culture war of the MAGA movement is not ours.
Ben Shapiro is a conservative provocateur. Ever since he was a teen-ager at U.C.L.A. writing op-eds for the Daily Bruin, he has shown a penchant for the rhetorical grenade. Women who have abortions are "baby killers." Western civilization is "superior" to other civilizations. "Israelis like to build," he tweeted in 2010. "Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock." Shapiro is now forty-two, and his rhetoric has mellowed only somewhat.
The suggestion, in which Trump did not specify which places he was referring to, amounts to an invitation to contradict the Constitution, given that it establishes in Section IV of Article I that in the United States, state laws govern elections, conceived as a decentralized process for which officials of both parties are responsible in the thousands of districts into which the vast map of the country is divided.
Elie, I take your point that you think it's both sides, but let me just say the data, respectfully, disagrees with you. According to government and independent analysis, since 2001, 85% of political deaths have been from right-wing extremists. There was a study posted on the DOJ about right-wing extremism being one of the biggest issues in America. Of course, it quietly disappeared when Donald Trump came into office, submitted Cross.
President Donald Trump has publicly called it quits with one of his most stalwart MAGA-world supporters, calling Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene "'Wacky' Marjorie" and saying he would endorse a challenger against her in next year's midterms "if the right person runs." The dismissal of Greene - once the epitome of "Make America Great Again," sporting the signature red cap for President Joe Biden's 2024 State of the Union address and acting as a go-between for Trump and other Capitol Hill Republicans
That led some in MAGA to question whether Patel was capable of leading the Kirk investigation, much less the crackdowns on political violence the movement desires. What they're saying: Patel "performed terribly in the last few days, and it's not clear whether he has the operational expertise to investigate, infiltrate, and disrupt the violent movements - of whatever ideology - that threaten the peace in the United States," right-wing writer Christopher Rufo wrote on X.
Attorney General Pam Bondi canceled her appearance at the CPAC International Summit Against Human Trafficking, attributing her absence to recovering from a torn cornea.
The release of the Epstein client list has long been the holy grail for the Maga movement, which believes it would expose a network of liberal elites complicit in child sex trafficking.
Jon Stewart criticized the scramble to address the fallout from Jeffrey Epstein's case, highlighting how Trump's rise was fueled by conspiracy theories, particularly among his supporters.
"Dreher argued that many on the right were displaying what he believed to be ugly qualities that define the modern left: language policing, rewriting history, and identity-based politics."
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