Long after Trump is gone, we'll still be fighting him | Corey Robin

In this digest of the week, Corey Robin lists some of the ways Trump will live on – even if the conservative movement dies

Last week, after the victory of Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama’s senatorial election, the media began reporting that the Republican party was facing an epic disaster. Citing insider talk of a “political earthquake” and a “party in turmoil,” the Washington Post anticipated a Democratic takeover of Congress in 2018.

A year that began with dark premonitions of a fascist seizure of power, an autocrat’s total control of the state, seemed ready to end with sunny predictions of the Republican party losing one branch of the federal government to the opposition and a stalled rightwing agenda in Congress.

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