- David Gilmour @ Mediaite: Top Trump DOJ Official Exit Days After GOP Midterm Wipeout — Sparking Likely Exodus
A top Justice Department official and staunch ally of President Donald Trump has stepped down following Democrats’ sweeping midterm election victories, according to new bombshell report.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: The Right’s Election Meltdown Is Just Getting Started
Everyone with a podcast is feeling terrible, and they’re ready to fight about it!
- Benjamin S. Weiss @ HuffPost: The Fight Is On For The Future Of The Right
Republicans’ stinging midterm election loss is already the subject of right-wing infighting over how much Donald Trump is to blame — and whether it’s time to abandon him altogether.
- Noah VanDowe and Zachary Pleat @ Media Matters: “A clown show”: The right-wing media blame game over the midterms is full steam ahead
Reeling from Republican losses, conservative hosts blamed each other, the party, and Donald Trump himself
- Sharon Lerner and Anna Maria Barry-Jester @ ProPublica: Trump’s State Department Is Giving $1 Million to Controversial Group to Study Crimes Against White South Africans
The new award, the administration’s latest show of support for the Afrikaner cause, comes after it cut human rights funding to nations in crisis. One former diplomat called the move “offensive.”
- GPAHE: Following the Midterms, Far-Right Extremists Break with Trump and Encourage Violent Revolution and Rabid Antisemitism
Amid these results, far-right extremists who backed Trump in the 2024 election and cheered on his agenda, such as the neo-Nazi Active Club movement, the white supremacist Proud Boys, and other far-right influencers, are ditching their support for Trump. Others, such as irregular militias, are rejecting democracy altogether. Instead of Trump, white supremacists are searching for a more antisemitic leader, or the second coming of Adolf Hitler
- Reagin von Lehe @ The Daily Beast: Tiny Trumpy Rep Launches Vile Attack on Young Woman
Republican Anthony Constantino launched a brutal attack on the press after declaring victory in his ruby-red seat, going so far as to call one female reporter an “a--hole.”
