Jared Yates Sexton

Jared Yates Sexton is a political analyst, co-host of The Muckrake Podcast, and author of American Rule: How A Nation Conquered The World But Failed Its People.

CAN’T WISH IT AWAY

Getting Rid of Trump Won’t Get Rid of Political Violence

You have to ignore a lot of U.S. history to believe that if we somehow banish Trump to the sidelines, the violence spawned by the far right will go with him.

Jared Yates Sexton

BROKEN MIRROR

Tucker’s Orban Lovefest Is a Glimpse of a Future MAGA Wants

The Fox News star broadcasts from Budapest this week, seemingly to sell his viewers on the Hungarian strongman’s depressingly familiar and deeply dangerous authoritarianism.

Jared Yates Sexton

IT’S ALIVE! ALIVE!

Fox News Created a Monster. Now That Monster Wants Revenge.

Fox News now “sucks,” election-denying Trumpkins say. And so it’s a race to the bottom for other outlets to appeal to an audience hoping to further remove themselves from reality.

Jared Yates Sexton

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE, AND IT HAS

Who Says Americans Can’t Be Nazis?

America’s opposition to Nazism and fascism was only as good as the moment.

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UNDYING

The Toxic Loyalty of Trump's Hardcore Zealots

They’ve excused his winking at neo-Nazis and his support of an accused child molester. Is there anything—anything—that would make Trump’s die-hards leave his personality cult?

Jared Yates Sexton

Jared Yates Sexton

Getting Rid of Trump Won’t Get Rid of Political Violence

Tucker’s Orban Lovefest Is a Glimpse of a Future MAGA Wants

Fox News Created a Monster. Now That Monster Wants Revenge.

Who Says Americans Can’t Be Nazis?

The Toxic Loyalty of Trump's Hardcore Zealots

Fascism Runs in My American Family

Trump Unleashed the Hell That Caused Charlottesville

Why Trump Doesn’t Need Fox News Anymore