The Latest Breaking News from MAGA

"Trump had poor judgment and impulse control even before his mind appeared to be degrading and decompensating"

Even if Trump can’t really mobilize large numbers of people to the streets, just prolonging a sense of chaos might be enough

The former president’s grip on the party, win or lose, will take a long time to loosen, Gustaf Kilander writes

Vivek Ramaswamy's appearance at a MAGA event in Pennsylvania, Ohio State's victory, and early voting trends in the state are discussed in this summary.

If elected, Donald Trump has vowed to demolish what he calls the “deep state” – a conspiratorial term for the American federal bureaucracy. A second Trump administration, running mate JD Vance has said, should fire thousands of civil servants and replace them with MAGA loyalists.

In 2016, Steve Bannon had Donald Trump’s ear. Now, eight years later, he is the mouth of the MAGA movement, writes Kelly Rissman

A Harris victory would prove to Trump loyalists that the system was rigged all along

Few who served in his first administration are still on speaking terms with Trump – and some are openly hostile. Joe Sommerlad writes

Political violence is hardly new to America. Since the country’s inception, gunmen have shaped its political landscape, from the Civil War to the Ku Klux Klan, to high-profile assassinations and the bombing of federal buildings. Yet the threat of political violence has deepened in recent years and intensified during the…