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The NRA Doesn’t Seem So Invincible Anymore
Friendly terrain is shrinking, and the culture is changing.
Maria Pike’s son was killed in 2012.
Photographer: Sarah L. Voisin/Washington Post/Getty Images
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If you do a Google search of “NRA” and “political juggernaut,” you can keep yourself reading for days. Like other cliches, the National Rifle Association’s enormous power has been a topical staple of political journalism for decades.
The juggernaut’s far from dead (though some people predicted the NRA’s long-term decline a while back). But the gun movement took a bruising hit on Election Day. Reeling from defeat, the NRA then promptly clobbered itself, Wile-E.-Coyote-style, in the immediate aftermath of the vote.