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: Election Obstruction Edition

People should start thinking—and trying to stop—a repeat of Trump’s performance in 2020: use of violent and non-violent methods to steal the election from Joe Biden. This time he might succeed, and it will spell doom for our democracy.
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Outrage Watch: The Lying Lies Of Donald J. Trump

Donald Trump lies. Profligately, habitually, brazenly, unrepentantly.
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Trump Outrage Watch: An Attorney General, A Pointless War, A Co-opted Post Office

So, Todd Blanche, who serves as Trump’s lawyer, not the American people's lawyer, is now the confirmed Attorney General. He was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee when the...
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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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