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Douthat: Democrats and Republicans are wrong to escalate the voter suppression vs. fraud war
Each side is talking like this is an existential fight, with the very concept of a fair democratic election hanging in the balance. But the facts continue to suggest otherwise,...
Douthat: Why do so many Americans think the election was stolen?
One feature of November did crack my jaded shell a bit: the sheer scale of the belief among conservatives that the election was really stolen from people I would not...
Douthat: We can’t reasonably blame Trump for America’s libertarianism or the CDC’s pandemic failures
The debate over Trump鈥檚 coronavirus culpability divides those who treat the president抖阴ap incompetence or malice or authoritarianism as an emergency that throws every other problem into shadow from those who...
Douthat: Donald Trump doesn鈥檛 want authority
When reality made ignoring the pandemic impossible, Trump's only genuinely political impulse -- the only impulse that related to real power and its uses 鈥� was to push the crucial...
Douthat: The coronavirus quagmire
We鈥檙e containing the virus, limiting the damage, preventing worst-case scenarios -- but we aren鈥檛 trying to actually stamp it out.
Douthat: When coronavirus lockdowns go too far
鈥淚f you think that by going for a picnic in a rural location no one will find you, don鈥檛 be surprised if an officer appears from the shadows!鈥�
Douthat: The road to semi-normal
In between is the phase we may inhabit into 2021: The time of semi-normalcy, when strictures are partially lifted, the economy partially reopened, social and cultural life partially resumed. And...
Douthat: Falling ill, testing negative
I felt, a bit idiotically, that if I was savvy enough I could stay one step ahead of the virus.
Douthat: The coronavirus is more than a disease. It抖阴ap a test.
Media hysteria quickly envelops every major story. So it has been striking to watch media coverage of the coronavirus take a somewhat more muted tack these past few weeks.
Douthat: Trump’s brutal Jacksonian counter-punch may land us a peace-loving Jeffersonian
Trump's Jacksonian tactical approach -- in the Soleimani case, picking the most surprising and dramatic option on the military board of retaliatory options 鈥� is unlikely to serve his official...