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class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa lnwCqV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="has-dropp">Hoe Republins have llectively lost their mds.</p><p>You’d thk that Hoe Republins might have slowed their roll after the man they phed as their star whistleblower agast <strong>Hunter Bin, Gal Luft</strong>—an Israeli-Amerin dual cizen who claimed to have promisg rmatn on Print <strong>Joe Bin</strong> and his son—was charged wh ser crim last November. Or pecially when, per the recently unsealed dictment, beme clear that those crim clud beg <a href=">an unregistered foreign agent for Cha</a>, traffickg arms, breakg ternatnal sanctns, and makg false statements to feral officials. (<a href=">Acrdg to the DOJ</a>, Luft fac a maximum of 100 years prison. Luft, who the DOJ now nsirs a “fugive,” has prevly chalked up the charg to polil persecutn.)</p><p class="paywall">But no, Hoe Republins have not skipped a beat their relentls hunt for a smokg gun on the Bins. Instead, chargg full speed ahead fense of their missg whistleblower durg last week’s ultra-mortifyg <a href=">Hoe Judiciary</a> Oversight hearg, a fur-lookg and jacketls <strong>Jim Jordan</strong> <a href=">acced the FBI</a> of “supprs[g] Amerin speech, of urse, nservative speech particular. I fd stunng.” <em>Stunng</em> is a word for .</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="32xmks"></div></div><p class="paywall">Perhaps more stunng is that this particular MAGA uc seems pletely immune to both shame and mon sense. The problem Republins fd themselv is perhaps bt summed up by Democrat <strong>Eric Swalwell,</strong> who texted me that his lleagu across the aisle uld e some stronger learship. “Typilly the Speaker of the Hoe sets a party’s agenda Congrs. But there is no functnal lear of the Hoe Republin Party. Instead, ’s ma up of an ensemble st of chaos agents providg a edy of errors each week Congrs is ssn.”</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">Some of this abject embarrassment surely uld have been prevented if Hoe Speaker <strong>Kev McCarthy</strong> had ntrol over his uc. For example, few—except for, perhaps, Democrats—benefed om hearg Wyomg ngrswoman and <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">electn nier <strong>Harriet Hageman</strong></a> acce lifelong Republin and <strong>Donald Tmp</strong>–appoted FBI director <strong>Christopher Wray</strong> of havg “personally worked to weaponize the FBI agast nservativ.” <a href=">Wray remd the clown r</a> of his résumé. “The ia that I’m biased agast nservativ seems somewhat sane to me, given my own personal background,” he said. And that wasn’t even the most embarrassg moment om the hearg; <a href=">Florida Republin <strong>Matt Gaetz</strong></a> acced Wray of beg “blissfully ignorant as to the Bin shakedown regime” and claimed that “people tsted the FBI more when J. Edgar Hoover was nng the place” (to which Wray said there’s been a sharp crease Floridians applyg to the FBI). Reprentative <strong>Troy Nehls</strong> even brought up the right-wg nspiracy theory that somehow January 6 rter <strong>Ray Epps</strong> was workg for the FBI to discred Tmp. Epps is currently sug Fox News after former host <strong>Tucker Carlson</strong> <a href=">spread this nspiracy theory</a>.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">Then, Republins end last week wh the passage of a fense budget bill, which acrdg <a href=">to <em>The New York Tim</em></a><em>,</em> “would lim abortn accs, transgenr re and diversy trag for ary personnel.” In other words, was ltered wh partisan poison pills, each reprentg another Republin dog whistle and passed 219 to 210 on partisan l.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div 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As New York Democrat <strong>Rchie Torr</strong> told me, “No one or nothg Ameri is safe om the sheer stupidy of morn Republin polics.” The party has “bee monomanially anti-woke culture warrrs whose ever-lengtheng list of targets clu acronyms like DEI and ESG, Barbie, gas stov, Hunter Bin, trans people.” Y, <strong>Ted Cz</strong> lled <a href=">a scene <em>Barbie</em></a> “Che munist propaganda.”</p><p class="paywall">Even so, ’s an open qutn whether Democrats n effectively make this pot—that the Republin Party currently seems to be n by total lunatics—to voters. “From attackg the Tmp-appotment head of the FBI to jammg through amendments rtrictg abortn accs and targetg transgenr service members the fense bill, last week was a remr of growg extremism the Hoe,” California Democrat <strong>Ro Khanna</strong> emailed me. “Democrats need to do more to ll this out and highlight how out of touch the current agenda is wh what Amerins actually re about. There should be ls time spent on nspiracy theori and regrsive, unpopular polici and more time spent on brgg back manufacturg and lowerg the st of gas and food.”</p><p class="paywall">Democrats have smartly seized on this ary fundg bacle as a way to illtrate how out of ntrol even the supposed morat the GOP are. Mory Lear reprentative <strong>Hakeem Jefi</strong> <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">immediately lled</a> out the <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">five Republin</a> lawmakers (<strong>Anthony D’Esposo, Nick LaLota, Mike Lawler, Marc Molaro,</strong> and y, <strong>Gee Santos</strong>) who occupy morate New York ngrsnal seats for votg favor of the bill. 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class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Polics</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-1" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ drYWLe summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Exclive: Insi the S--tshow That Was the Tmp-Bin Transn</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">New revelatns about how one Tmp staffer helped prerve the transfer of power—om the forthg book on the Bin Whe Hoe, <em>The Fight of His Life</em>.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Chris Whipple</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard 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src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Polics</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ drYWLe summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">Ron DeSantis: The Makg and Remakg (and Remakg) of a MAGA Heir</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">The Florida ernor is the Fox-lovg, lib-owng succsor--wag to Donald Tmp’s cult of personaly. But for all DeSantis’s bona fis and rocketg natnal profile, doubts about his own persona (“lculated,” “aloof,” “ld-blood”) persist. Is any wonr he and the former print are already locked a 2024 ld war?</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Gabriel Sherman</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 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Legally Screwed" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Polics</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ drYWLe summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The Complete Gui to All the Ways Donald Tmp Is Legally Screwed</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd ijSOpT jDyfzW summary-em__k">Every sgle crimal vtigatn and civil lawsu the ex-print is currently facg, cludg the on you’ve probably never heard about.</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY gRtaxp summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH iNSiTG byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd bIbWCO gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Bs Lev</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm ktxezM ad ad--read-more"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--read-more" data-no-id="bf9nk9"></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff jCBznZ summary-em 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rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Rupert Murdoch Kne Tmp the Balls While He’s Doubled Over Coughg Up Blood" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX hXRWeY bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Polics</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM cxlTHI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-4" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ drYWLe summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" 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