American Democracy Requires a Conservative Party

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Every nation needs parties of the left and the right, but America’s conservative party has collapsed—and its absence will undermine the recovery of American democracy even when Donald Trump is gone.

First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:

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• Where the new identity politics went wrong
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• The coming attack on an essential element of women’s freedom

The Danger That Will Outlast Trump

The American right has been busy the past few days. The Republicans in Congress are at war with one another over a possible government that most of them don’t really want. Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona (channeling from , apparently) railed about “quislings” such as the “sodomy-promoting” Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and said he . Gosar, of course, was from the likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who over the weekend of executing Milley and swore to use government power to investigate a major television network