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Mona Charen

Mona Charen is policy editor of The Bulwark and host of the “Beg to Differ” podcast.

The GOP is engaged in a cynical effort to convince Americans that immigrants commit crimes, and President Joe Biden is caught in a bind because of it.
A reelected Donald Trump would have the voters’ imprimatur for lawlessness.
It’s hard for a political party to escape its brand. Republicans won’t easily escape the association with hard-line abortion positions, including opposition to certain kinds of contraception.
Republican voters think that if Donald Trump is reelected, they will get even harsher measures to keep immigrants out. They won’t.
Tucker Carlson’s ring-kissing visit to Vladimir Putin’s lair cements the status of Republicans as the useful idiots of the 21st century. But Carlson is not a useful idiot, as he knows exactly what he’s doing.
Trump contributed to this massive judgment against him for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll with his ceaseless boasts about his wealth and his behavior in court.
We cannot count on most Republicans not to support Trump, but what about the skeptics? There’s a saving remnant out there, and we need to buttress them before November.
If the Republican Party were not such a shell, it would have shut down Trump’s dangerous lies about the stolen election on Nov. 3, 2020, Mona Charen writes. Instead, leading officeholders “humored” him, or worse, reinforced his lies.
Why is it so hard to see what is happening to Jews in the U.S. and around the world for what it is, asks Mona Charen.