The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Trump’s running mate once admitted that MAGA is truly toxic. Sarah Longwell, the prominent Never Trumper, explains how Vance’s MAGA stench could help drive swing voters to Democrats.

With Trump picking J.D. Vance as his running mate, a political writer argues that this choice, and some other signs, suggests the politics around the assassination attempt will get a lot uglier.

After the despicable attempt to kill Trump, a reporter who writes regularly about political violence explains how deeply unprepared we are for the terrible escalation that may now be coming.

As new reports tie Trump to Project 2025, a writer who has examined the plan explains what this saga really reveals about the reactionary agenda MAGA wants to inflict on our country.

With President Biden adamantly insisting he isn’t stepping aside, top ally and former White House chief of staff Ron Klain makes an expansive case for how Biden can still beat Donald Trump this fall.

With Democrats coalescing behind President Biden at a moment of crisis, a leading analyst explains how he is fending off efforts to remove him—and lays out what will happen next.

With Trump abruptly moving to soften the GOP platform on abortion, a leading defender of reproductive rights explains why the move is a big con—and reveals Trump’s weakness on the issue.

With Trump slamming the Times even as it crusades against Biden, a press critic explains how Trump scams the media into adopting a huge double standard on each man’s fitness to serve.

With Trump’s threats to jail Liz Cheney and other political foes going nuclear, a former prosecutor explains what a second-term crackdown on his enemies would really look like. It’s gonna be ugly.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s demand for immunity, a leading legal expert explains why there’s deep cause for alarm about what he’ll be free to attempt if he wins again.

With Trump escalating his threats to pardon MAGA supporters who attacked the Capitol, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explains how this shows the rule of law is in deep peril.

With MAGA enraged at the very idea of fact-checking Trump, a leading critic of our discourse explains how Project 2025 would help MAGA transform the government into a weapon against truth.

With Trump and his backers relentlessly smearing Biden as senile, a veteran reporter who’s well sourced in MAGA world explains why Trump allies worry he set expectations for Biden too low.

With Judge Aileen Cannon giving Donald Trump a boost yet again, a leading legal scholar helps us uncover the deeper and darker story here about presidents who attack the rule of law itself.

With a new report revealing that Republicans are privately nervous about Donald Trump’s chances, a prominent Never Trump conservative explains what’s driving these sudden GOP doubts.

With Donald Trump escalating the violent talk at his latest events, a leading critic of the media explains how the press should cover this Trump-MAGA mode of politics as a major rolling scandal.

As Donald Trump erupts at Fox News for disloyalty, the author of a new book about the history of right-wing grift explains the Trump-Fox relationship’s place in that long and sordid tale.

As the Supreme Court’s ethical crises mount, a veteran political strategist explains how the court’s MAGA justices are already giving Trump a big electoral assist—and why it’s about to get uglier.

With right-wing media deception hitting dangerous new levels, we talked to writer and podcaster Thom Hartmann, who argues that we’re hitting a tipping point of MAGA mendacity.

With a new Politico survey finding that independents take Trump’s conviction very seriously, the reporter who oversaw the poll takes us through what these surprising new numbers really mean.