Jonathan Chait @jonathanbchait

All My Ex–Democratic Saviors Live in Texas Once again, the party’s statewide candidates seem to have grander ambitions than victory.

05.02.2026 20:40 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

Trump’s Crypto Defenses Aren’t Reassuring An Abu Dhabi royal seems to have gotten what he paid for, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

03.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Katie Miller Thinks Classical Liberalism Is Woke Does she oppose Enlightenment virtues, as her X posts suggest? Or is she just confused?

30.01.2026 15:15 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 6 📌 0

Trump Blinks The president’s retreat in Minneapolis is a stinging defeat for the national conservatives.

27.01.2026 16:22 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 1

What MAGA Really Thinks of the Second Amendment Now Americans know.

25.01.2026 16:56 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 1

Why Conservatives Defend ICE Republicans deplore the mayhem in Minnesota—but blame protesters and Democrats for it.

22.01.2026 17:48 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 1

Gavin Newsom’s Record Is a Problem The California governor’s pivot to the center may be too late for 2028.

22.01.2026 13:19 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 7 📌 1

What Elizabeth Warren Gets Wrong About Democrats Moderates sometimes disagree with progressives even when billionaires don’t tell them to.

15.01.2026 13:06 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 14 📌 1

Jeff Bezos Needs to Speak Up The raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is deeply troubling.

15.01.2026 03:09 — 👍 40 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 2

Look, Cooper could argue "Chait agrees Trump is a dangerous authoritarian and criminal, but he disagrees with a couple legal cases against Trump." That would be a fact-based argument.

But Cooper isn't about fact-based arguments. Misleading people is his whole added value.

14.01.2026 14:51 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 26 📌 2

Some people may share @ryanlcooper.com's political goals, but you should realize he is compulsively dishonest.

14.01.2026 14:45 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 26 📌 4

On the Cover of New York Magazine: The Case for Consequences The cover illustration is by Jane Rosenberg, a New York based courtroom artist.

Here is that cover story nymag.com/press/2020/0...

14.01.2026 14:44 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

In fact, I have frequently described Trump as a career criminal and defended multiple prosecutions of him, including in a 2020 cover story that was among the first to make this case bsky.app/profile/ryan...

14.01.2026 14:44 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 9 📌 3

I've written hundreds and hundreds of columns, dating back to March 2016, calling Trump a dangerous authoritarian. I don't know how to describe @ryanlcooper.com except as a straight liar.

14.01.2026 02:49 — 👍 49 🔁 5 💬 82 📌 18

Trump’s Desperate Attempt to Bully the Fed A criminal investigation of Jerome Powell will test whether Republican loyalty to the president has any limits.

12.01.2026 14:59 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Trump’s Shrinking Coalition The president can no longer present himself as anti-system, because he has become the system.

12.01.2026 14:09 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Trump’s Slippery Definition of ‘Patriots’ and ‘Terrorists’ The president has interesting ideas about who constitutes an enemy of the state.

08.01.2026 23:20 — 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 3

Trump’s Retro Imperialism The president holds some misguided views about wealth, power, and natural resources.

05.01.2026 21:41 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0

The Show Won’t Go On President Trump’s threats against artists who decline to perform at the renamed Kennedy Center are ultimately hollow.

30.12.2025 16:39 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 1

Higgins has alerted me that @timmiller.bsky.social is a very loyal conservative Republican whose views have not changed at all. I apologize for the error.

25.12.2025 14:09 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0

Stop Defending Bari Weiss It is impossible to take her actions at face value given the context in which she is operating.

"Weiss is following a long-standing instinct to turn every Trump abuse into a debate, a generosity she does not afford targets on the left...impossible to take her objections at face value given the context in which she's operating."
-@jonathanbchait.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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