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The ReAwaken America Tour, a pro-Trump religious roadshow, has become known for promoting Christian nationalism and right-wing conspiracy theories.

It’s a test — and a source — of loyalty.

Over one summer of decision in Philadelphia, the Founding Fathers hashed out exactly who was unfit to govern.

ed by a host of ”unknown others” in the militia movements of rural America.

Trump’s presidency may be best remembered for its cataclysmic end. But his four years as president also changed real American policy in lasting ways, just more quietly. We asked POLITICO’s best-in-class policy reporters to recap some of the ways Trump changed the country while in office, for better or worse.

Donald Trump made voters a number of promises before they elected him. But has he kept his word?

President Donald Trump's last job approval rating is a personal low 34%. He averaged 41% job approval in office, a record low by four points.

About a quarter of campaign promises were fulfilled, about a quarter he compromised, and about half he did not achieve.

Republican lawmakers raised objections to the official certification of electoral votes in a joint session of Congress that went into the wee hours of Thursday morning, in a futile effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. See who supported the objections.

Donald Trump is not a man apart. He is, instead, merely one of us writ large.

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president?

Monocausality is at the heart of a lot of our dysfunction.

This is a tough column to write, because I don’t want to demean or insult those who write me in good faith. I’ve started it a half dozen times since November but turned to other topics each time because this needle hard to thread.

A demagogue, or rabble-rouser, is a political leader in a democracy who gains popularity by arousing the common people against elites, especially through oratory that whips up the passions of crowds, appealing to emotion by scapegoating out-groups, exaggerating dangers to stoke fears, lying for emotional effect, or other rhetoric that tends to drown out reasoned deliberation and encourage fanatical popularity. Demagogues overturn established norms of political conduct, or promise or threaten to do so.

Mental Health Experts Say the Hour-Long Exchange Shows Trump is 'Irrational, Unstable and Dangerous'

"Most all of us are contemplating leaving," one House Republican said.

Charles Zug unpacks the differences and similarities between demagoguery and populism.

An expert on autocracy assesses how far America has slipped away from democracy, and what it will take to get it back.

The Republican Party's transformation is apparent at any Donald Trump rally: The crowd is filled with working-class voters, many without college degrees, who are in lockstep with him on issues where he has overhauled the party's platform, from immigration to trade to foreign policy.

“It would be the dumbest move ever," says Republican Rep. Don Bacon.

We're told that populism is on the rise - but what exactly does that mean?

New research argues feelings of disillusionment prompt people to take more extreme positions.

Alex Jones earned his spot in Donald Trump's basket of deplorables by being the king of the conspiracy theorists

The percentage of people affiliated with the Republican Party has declined in recent years, per polling firm Gallup.

Populism, political program or movement that champions, or claims to champion, the common person, by contrast with a real or perceived elite. It combines elements of the left and right, opposing large business and financial interests and frequently being hostile to established liberal, socialist, and labor parties.