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September 5, 2020

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The Republicans’ Absurd Quest to Turn Biden Into Trump

The president’s reelection campaign is now an obsessive exercise in psychological projection.

By Matt Ford

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	A Sister Souljah Moment to Rule Them All In the most important election of our lifetime, Joe Biden will have to risk everything. By Osita Nwanevu

	The Media Is Falling for Trump’s Law and Order Con For the past week, the president has successfully reframed the election as a debate over looting and political violence. By Alex Shephard

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	The Bush Rehabilitation Trap Democrats’ insistence on redeeming pre-Trump Republicans will corrupt the party’s agenda and spoil the chance for real social reform. By Eoin Higgins

	Trump’s Republican Party Is Erasing Reagan’s Memory His demand for total idolatry requires the GOP rank and file to banish the 40th president from their history. By Bruce Bartlett

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	The End of the Voter-Consumer The work of organizing a politically legible coalition of nonvoters is functionally the same as what’s needed for the left to win elections. By Jesse A. Myerson

	The Republicans Still Don’t Know How to Run Against Biden They’ve been trying to paint themselves as the party of inclusion, but Trump’s speech doubled down on the politics of fear. By Walter Shapiro

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