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Politics and Sausage Making's avatar

As usual, great graphics. As you point out, Washington has a limited attention span, usually focusing on one thing at a time. Trump flooding the zone seems to be an intentional way to use that to his advantage.

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David T. Crow's avatar

Bruce's charts are the absolute best too to understand politics.

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Dan Weiss's avatar

It's too early to tell, but is it possible 2026 will be a pro-Dem wave election? Will farmers in plains states retain their GOP loyalty even though Trump's freeze on federal payments is really hurting them? Are the raucous town meetings in GOP districts a harbrinter of looming House defeat (a la the tea party in 2009-10)?

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David Taylor's avatar

Interesting and insightful. I look forward to reading Bruce’s Sunday email each week. He tackles complex topics and offers thoughtful commentary without the partisanship that is prevalent today.

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Bruce Mehlman's avatar

Thanks, David!

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Christian Cabaniss's avatar

Similar to Sagan’s pale blue dot, should we be more interested in how the myriad communities across the nation look back on Washington than how DC views itself?

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Martin Anantharaman's avatar

Interesting, as always - also that you want to interview Bari Weiss who professes to Zionism and hence to rapacious settler-colonialism, apartheid racism, ethnical cleansing including genocide as well as suppression of anyone questioning that. Quite significant ...

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