Mort Kondracke

Morton Kondracke is a retired Washington, DC, journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, The New Republic, McLaughlin Group, FoxNews Special Report, Roll Call, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal) now living on Bainbridge Island. He continues to write regularly for (besides PostAlley) RealClearpolitics.com, mainly to advance the cause of political reform.
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Trump Outrage Watch: America Against the World

So there you have it: the post-war international order, which has fostered international prosperity, spread democracy and prevented a catastrophic Third World War, is officially over, replaced by a medieval contest of power and force
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Trump Outrage-to-Come: Time to Worry About the Midterms

He has issued an executive order calling for states to require proof of citizenship, demanded that only votes arriving by Election Day be counted and urged states to abandon mail-in voting.
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Trump Outrages, Holiday Edition

I’m handing over this holiday Trump Outrage Watch to Washington Post/CNN foreign affairs analyst Fareed Zakaria, who I watch near-religiously every Sunday morning for the most illuminating commentary and interviews on all of US TV.
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Year-end Trump Outrages: Off the Tracks Edition

In a jam, Trump is following his worst instincts.
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Trump Outrage Watch: Incontinent Incoherence Edition

There are now so many examples of Donald Trump’s apparent cognitive impairment that the issue can’t be avoided.
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This Week’s Trump Outrages: Portraits in Cruelty

Donald Trump deserves every possible negative adjective applied to him: corrupt, dishonest, narcissistic, authoritarian, foul-mouthed, unfaithful, divisive, bigoted, criminal, vindictive, violent. I invite readers to add to the list....
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A Busy Busy Week in Trump Outrages

He certainly continues to act like a king—and an increasingly despotic and corrupt one.
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Trump Outrage Watch: Amid Sinking Polls, Going to War Against American Cities

You do not need to be paranoid to imagine how Trump could snuff out American democracy.
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Trump Outrage Watch: Shut it All Down

Topic A now is the government shutdown, with threatened mass firings of federal workers, shut-downs of all but essential federal services, worries about how long it will last and how much damage it will do to the US economy—and which party will suffer politically from the shutdown.
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Trump Outrages: A Well-documented History of Violence Rhetoric

Which US politician has advocated, condoned or incited violence more than any other? Donald Trump.
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