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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s migrant trafficking operation has proven to be just the latest in a laundry list of outrageous behavior. Throughout the last two years, the authoritarian, performance-artist governor has centralized power in his own hands while echoing Donald Trump’s MAGA rhetoric and dividing Floridians on a daily basis. But this time, DeSantis and the Republican Party are already facing blowback for his actions.

Once upon a time, all politics was local. These days, it seems, all local politics is national. And as the states grow further and further apart on policy, and the Republican Party’s opposition to democratic institutions grows more extreme, the downsides of federalism become ever more apparent. On episode 53 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene speak with Jacob Grumbach, the author of Laboratories Against Democracy, and Aaron Kleinman, the director of research at the States Project... Читать дальше...

“We’ve sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline…. You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.”

This past July, Bob Fenton Jr., a career government official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, got a call from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Mayorkas wanted to know if Fenton might possibly be able to run the Biden administration’s response to the monkeypox outbreak. Fenton, who has worked at top posts at FEMA under Democratic and Republican presidents (including Donald Trump), told the secretary, “The last two initials on my name are Jr., not M.D. To be successful... Читать дальше...

Ron DeSantis’s decision to fly dozens of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in a desperate attempt to boost his political profile ahead of the start of presidential primary season was malicious, inhumane, cruel—and possibly illegal. But, hey, was it good politics?