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Are there 10 courageous Republicans who can save America?

By Alon Ben-Meir - posted Thursday, 29 January 2026


Supercharging fossil fuels, shredding climate safeguards, deepening planetary warming, amplifying extreme weather disasters, and sacrificing long-term survival for short-term corporate profit.

Launching chaotic trade wars, raising consumer prices, squeezing farmers and manufacturers, while failing to revive industrial heartlands.

Deploying prosecutors against political "enemies," chilling dissent, corroding equal justice, normalizing retaliatory investigations, and edging the justice system toward authoritarian loyalty over law.

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Smearing independent media, spreading disinformation, encouraging harassment of journalists, shrinking trusted news space, and conditioning reporters to reject inconvenient facts.

Stripping anti-discrimination safeguards, green-lighting harassment, and pushing LGBTQ people back into vulnerability and stigma.

Gutting civil rights enforcement in schools, abandoning marginalized students to unchecked discrimination, and deepening educational inequality nationwide.

Locking in regressive tax breaks, swelling federal debt, supercharging inequality, constraining future social investment, and anchoring policy around the wealthy and large corporations.

Sowing lies about voter fraud, inciting efforts to overturn election results, encouraging intimidation of officials, and degrading public faith in democratic elections and transfer of power.

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Slapping punitive tariffs on key allies, weaponizing trade, fracturing Western unity, and driving partners to hedge trade toward rival powers, especially China, and destabilizing global supply chains.

Slashing foreign aid, including USAID and development programs, weakening global health systems, fueling instability and migration, ceding influence to rivals, and eroding US soft power and moral authority.

Threatening NATO cohesion, bullying allies, and dangling abandonment of NATO's Article 5, playing into the hands of America's foremost adversaries, Russia-precisely the outcome Putin was hoping and waiting for-weakening NATO's unity, and shaking confidence in US security guarantees.

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Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU. He teaches courses on international negotiation and Middle Eastern studies.

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