Washington Monthly Article RatingWho's Really in Charge of the GOP? (Hint: It's Not Trump) | Washington Monthly
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "If Trump were really in charge, liberal views on abortion and LGBTQ rights would have become accepted among Republicans, similar to how Trump helped many Republicans memory hole their advocacy for Social Security cuts." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Throughout it all, Trump has remained unrepentant, attacking law enforcement and refusing to listen to his lawyers." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "Newly empowered MAGA politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz are not darlings of the donor class, who prefer less overtly divisive candidates who will cut taxes for the wealthy without disrupting global trade." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "Trump succeeds because he appears to be one of them." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "One answer is that Trump is in charge, singlehandedly bending the party to his will and putting his self-interest ahead of the party's." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Trump's most legitimately successful policy initiative was the creation of vaccines through Operation Warp Speed." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "A normal, rational political party would jettison Trump and find a more reputable champion for its policies." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Even though the party leaders know Trump is a liability, they remain silent or vocally defend him." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "And yet, his legal problems have only elevated his positioning in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the rest of the field." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "But even if Trump is acquitted -- potentially with the help of a judge he appointed -- he would not be out of the legal woods." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Trump will likely face even more serious charges for attempting to coerce the Georgia Secretary of State to tamper with the 2020 election." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The more moderate theory of change suggests that once Trump is gone -- and perhaps once Fox News is deplatformed -- the fever will break, and the GOP will return to normal." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "More importantly, it misreads Trump himself." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Its leading 2024 presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, is going on trial for serious federal crimes involving threats to national security and lies to the FBI." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Fox News executives feared that if they failed to toe the line on Trump's lies about the election and many other issues, their viewers would abandon them for competing far-right TV networks Newsmax and One America News Network." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "If Trump were really in charge, liberal views on abortion and LGBTQ rights would have become accepted among Republicans, similar to how Trump helped many Republicans memory hole their advocacy for Social Security cuts." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "If Trump were really in charge, liberal views on abortion and LGBTQ rights would have become accepted among Republicans, similar to how Trump helped many Republicans memory hole their advocacy for Social Security cuts." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Throughout it all, Trump has remained unrepentant, attacking law enforcement and refusing to listen to his lawyers." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Newly empowered MAGA politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz are not darlings of the donor class, who prefer less overtly divisive candidates who will cut taxes for the wealthy without disrupting global trade." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Newly empowered MAGA politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz are not darlings of the donor class, who prefer less overtly divisive candidates who will cut taxes for the wealthy without disrupting global trade." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Anyone who doubts it should look no further than Trump's would-be heir, Ron DeSantis, who seems even more authoritarian and farther to the right than Trump." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "Anyone who doubts it should look no further than Trump's would-be heir, Ron DeSantis, who seems even more authoritarian and farther to the right than Trump." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "Anyone who doubts it should look no further than Trump's would-be heir, Ron DeSantis, who seems even more authoritarian and farther to the right than Trump." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
24% : If Trump were really in charge, liberal views on abortion and LGBTQ rights would have become accepted among Republicans, similar to how Trump helped many Republicans memory hole their advocacy for Social Security cuts.22% : Throughout it all, Trump has remained unrepentant, attacking law enforcement and refusing to listen to his lawyers.
20% : Newly empowered MAGA politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz are not darlings of the donor class, who prefer less overtly divisive candidates who will cut taxes for the wealthy without disrupting global trade.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.