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Six Reasons To Be Alarmed

Plus: Biden's malaise?

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Charlie Sykes
Oct 11, 2021
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Let’s keep this conversation going with a bit of newsletter-to-newsletter dialogue here. From Brian Stelter’s “Reliable Sources” last night:

The title of Charlie Sykes' Sunday newsletter for The Bulwark is perfectly applicable to the news right now: "How alarmed should we be?"

That's the question undergirding so much of the news coverage about American politics. How alarmed should we be about the antidemocratic words and actions of the GOP?

"An interesting debate is developing over how seriously we should take the rolling Trumpian coup," Sykes writes. Here are six reasons to take it seriously:

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