Notices by Philip Bump (pbump@journa.host), page 3

Minnesota had a crummy flag and embarked on a public process to replace it. A young guy from a rural town submitted the winning design. And now the right is trying to turn this into an anti-woke attack on Walz.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/07/no-tim-walz-didnt-give-minnesota-somali-flag/

As Trump and his allies plan for stuffing the government with loyalists, the convention is a reminder of what that looks like: respected officials kicked to the side and criminals brought close.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/18/trump-federal-employees-maga/

If you want to understand how the GOP approaches rule of law, don't listen to the politicians somberly offering fealty. Listen to the reality-TV star. The *other* reality-TV star. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/17/convention-speech-that-best-illustrates-gop-approach-justice/

The dismissal of the obviously robust classified-documents case is a good demonstration of how the right wants government to work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/15/preview-government-by-subset-people/

Saying rhetoric about the threat to democracy led to Saturday's shooting is a way to try to muffle that rhetoric. Saying a change in tone is coming is a way to distract from unchanging policy promises.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/15/trump-shift-momentum-trumpism/

At this point, more people are searching for information about Project 2025 than are searching "dinner." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/12/project-2025-gets-traction-thanks-part-trump/

A good indicator that the 2024 GOP platform is, in fact, a robustly Trumpian one? One in eight characters is a capital letter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/10/republican-party-platform-trump/

J.D. Vance endorsed Trump launching a probe of Biden by 1) misrepresenting the probes of Trump and 2) suggesting that the failed GOP Biden investigation was reason for another investigation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/08/trump-vance-biden-probe/

There are at least four hard-to-answer questions that undergird the push to replace Biden as the Democratic nominee, meaning that the multi-week turmoil the party is seeing is not likely to end soon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/08/biden-campaign-drop-out-questions/

How Americans view America. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/04/republicans-democrats-america-polling/

If the right is fighting a "second American Revolution," as Heritage's guy put it, it's worth identifying what they are rebelling against. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/heritage-foundation-trump-revolution/

Most Americans opposed presidential immunity. But then most voters opposed the presidents who nominated several justices to the court and most Americans were represented by senators who opposed their confirmations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/01/supreme-court-president-senate-immunity/

Looking at the composition of gun deaths by state and how they compare to overdoses in recent years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/25/numbers-behind-public-health-crisis-gun-violence/

The great replacement conspiracy theorists see a conspiracy in Biden's new executive action. If he's trying to get new votes, he's going to have to wait a while. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/18/new-voters-arent-what-biden-gains-action-immigrant-spouses/

Donald Trump actually has his own scattershot outline of what he plans to do in office: "Agenda 47." He doesn't talk about it much, so I made a searchable index of what it contains. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/18/trump-has-unveiled-an-agenda-his-own-he-just-doesnt-mention-it-much/

A key consideration as 538 prepared its election forecast visuals: conveying uncertainty. Free newsletter: https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=666d9e958e6d40572eb5485a&linknum=2&linktot=65

A majority of Americans think that presidents shouldn't be immune from prosecution for actions taken in office. That's true across party lines.
Except that Republicans make an exception for one particular president. Once again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/14/immunity-too-republicans-grant-trump-different-standard/

Wasn't originally going to write about "2000 Mules," but decided it was worth highlighting how obvious nonsense could be out there for years — misleading people and making money — without any recourse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/03/2000-mules-pulled/

Just to get ahead of this: if someone indicates that they can confidently predict how the verdict affects the election, they are full of it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/30/trump-verdict-voters-election/

Trump and his allies have very effectively inoculated his base against the idea that a negative outcome in the New York trial would be legitimate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/29/trump-verdict-republican-base/