The Contract on America
Has the Republican Party become a kind of death cult hellbent on destroying everything that enables ordinary people to survive and thrive? Does their hatred of liberalism, and desire for vengeance, override their instinct for national self-preservation?In a recent podcast, Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Giat, two prominent historians of authoritarianism and European fascism, discussed whether the U.S. is being murdered or is committing suicide. That is, whether it is being deliberately destroyed by Trump and MAGA Republicans or if a significant part of the electorate is committing national suicide, whether the descent into authoritarianism is a self-inflicted wound.The answer is clearly both.
- ▪Has the Republican Party become a kind of death cult hellbent on destroying everything that enables ordinary people to survive and thrive?
- ▪Does their hatred of liberalism, and desire for vengeance, override their instinct for national self-preservation?In a recent podcast, Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Giat, two prominent historians of authoritarianism and European fascism, disc
- ▪That is, whether it is being deliberately destroyed by Trump and MAGA Republicans or if a significant part of the electorate is committing national suicide, whether the descent into authoritarianism is a self-inflicted wound.The answer is c
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The Contract On America Posted on Friday, Sep 18, 2026 5:00AMMonday, September 14, 2026 by John Ambrosioby John AmbrosioIn 2001, Grover Norquist, the Republican anti-tax crusader, famously quipped in an interview that he did not want to abolish government, “I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” The radical shrinking of the federal government under Trump has happened at a speed and on a scale that is unprecedented.This raises the question: Are Trump and the MAGA-dominated Republican Party willing to jeopardize the future viability of U.S.
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