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: Fraudulent Election Fraud Claims, An Attorney General Confirmation, And More ICE Killings

For someone ostensibly concerned with election integrity, Trump has done his best to undermine Americans’ trust in voting.
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Trump Outrage Watch: Saving us from SAVE

Donald Trump continues to prod the Senate to end the filibuster and pass the undemocratic SAVE America Act—this time using the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham as an instrument. But it’s still a heavy lift.
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Trump Outrage Watch: Blame it on the Democratic Socialists!

Most Americans don’t know what Democratic Socialists advocate—and there is a considerable disparity among them.
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Trump’s Giant Obsessions and America’s 250th Birthday

Donald Trump has been unofficially (but reliably) diagnosed as a pathological narcissist. And now his egomania is consuming the July 4 holiday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration...
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Trump Outrage Watch: Enabling Iran Edition

Trump’s war is no triumph. It’s a strategic failure that leaves the US weaker, Iran richer and the region more unstable.
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Trump Outrages: Sycophants and Grifters and Boors, Oh My!

Now that he’s been nominated as Trump’s Attorney General, Todd Blanche deserves more attention than he’s had, which should lead to the defeat of his nomination.
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Outrage Watch: Rampant Corruption Edition

Democrats have been using the ‘c” word for most of Trump’s second term, occasionally (correctly) calling it “blatant.” But something important changed last week with Trump’s Justice Department’s creating an “anti-weaponization” fund.
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Supreme Disgust: Nation’s Highest Court Guts What Remained of The Voting Rights Act

The Voting Rights decision lowered the public’s respect for the Court to a record 61% disapproval, according to Gallup and the Marquette Law School.
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Trump Outrages: Report from Crazytown — Co-opting the Media, and Riding Pentagon Pete

Trump’s Project 2025 (which he denied any knowledge of in 2024) was modeled on Viktor Orban’s 16-year authoritarian rule in Hungary. The good news is that Orban was just defeated in a landslide.
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Trump Outrage Watch: Iran Edition — TACO Tuesday (and Wednesday) (and Thursday)…

Trump really does not want the war to continue because of the economic and political pain the US and he would suffer.
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