How Republicans Are Thinking About Trumpism Without Trump

15 March 2022 by Mike Bond

Like most presidents, Donald Trump changed the political party he led. But Trump was hardly a normal president. That was apparent while Trump was president, but in many ways that’s even easier to understand now that he is out of office. Unlike previous presidents, Trump has refused to take a step back from the limelight. … Read more

Trumpism Is Still on the March

25 February 2022 by Mike Bond

A Trump rally at Whidbey Island, 2016. (Genna Martin / seattlepi.com) After my cover story on Sequim, Wash. came out, I started getting e-mails from people around the country. Their communities were experiencing the same far-right surges, and they, too, were organizing pushback against this trend. Whidbey Island, on the Puget Sound east of Sequim, … Read more