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America's mainstream newsrooms have been trying to and failing for nigh on a quarter century, steadily ceding attention to an ascendant right-wing media led by Fox News, websites and podcasters.

Only ascendant powers think the state is for governing.

The question is, which of those two impulses is ascendant?

One of their main failings is a fear of framing America’s democracy crisis and ascendant authoritarianism in moral terms.

The GOP's majority in the House is razor-thin, and Johnson needs all the yeas he can get, but moderate Republicans are warning Johnson not to cave to the demands of the party's ascendant far-right.