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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Everything Trump was on the Ballot. Now What?

It was the Heartland that won the mid-terms. It seems the Democratic coalition is back. 
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Trump Outrage Watch: Russia, Revenge, Rollbacks and Risk

An October poll in the Economist magazine showed that 45 percent of Americans think that Trump sides with Russia, compared to 16 percent who believe he sides with Ukraine.
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Trump Outrage Watch: Nine Ways Trump could mess with our Elections

He has already tried to do so by disenfranchising likely Democratic voters (requiring seniors, young people and minorities to show birth certificates or passports to register to vote), ordering the US  Postal Service to send  mail-in ballots only to persons on a national voter list, and suing states to provide full voter lists.
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Trump Outrage Watch: Hanging Ukraine Out To Dry Edition

Trump wants to deprive Ukraine of its heroic leader.
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Trump Outrage Watch: Stephen Miller Edition

Stephen Miller, the Trump administration’s nativist Prince of Darkness, must be a happy man these days. In August, ICE rounded up nearly 59,925 undocumented migrants for detention and deportation,...
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Trump Outrage Watch: China and the Battle over AI

Trump has asserted that AI development should proceed at a pace designed to keep the US ahead of China in the AI arms race, not slowed down to avoid “existential” dangers, the idea of which he typically calls a “hoax,” or a “sick conspiracy that can only benefit China.
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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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