Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. Messages from @RadioFreeTom, @JRubinBlogger, @WalshFreedom and others are the key to the survival of America. If we have learned anything from the Trump era, it is that we MUST end the personal invective of politics. Politics is about governing, and governing is about policy..

@RadioFreeTom @JRubinBlogger @WalshFreedom 2...good government is and should be boring. When we turn legitimate policy differences into a WWE match - where any argument, no matter how irrational or hypocritical - is used to win, we all will lose. Neither party has a monopoly on truth. When we forget that, we encourage....

@RadioFreeTom @JRubinBlogger @WalshFreedom 3...irrational hatreds, conspiracy theories, personalization of politics, families torn apart. It Is Not Worth It. Fox will keep lying and spinning. So be it. But the rest of the commentators and politicians must accept: We have to return to reality. Obama was not a Muslim. Duh..

@RadioFreeTom @JRubinBlogger @WalshFreedom 4...Benghazi, as terrible as it was, was a terrorist attack in a dangerous country, something that happens under every president. Emails are as inconsequential for Ivanka as they were for HRC. Bush/Cheney weren't trying to undermine democracy. Politicians arent murdering people..

@RadioFreeTom @JRubinBlogger @WalshFreedom 5...all of the people who know politics KNOW this stuff is garbage. Compromise is the only way toward progress - it cannot be endless war against each other. I want this country to go back to a time when we went to work, spent time with our family, chatted with our neighbors....

@RadioFreeTom @JRubinBlogger @WalshFreedom 6...NOT rage against neighbors because they have a political sign supporting someone we don't prefer, or vandalizing property, or putting the country in an endless rage addiction. We either grow up or we perish. There is no in-between. BS needs to be called out as BS. The world.

@RadioFreeTom @JRubinBlogger @WalshFreedom 7...cannot function in a post-reality environment. Truth matters. Respect matters. These things matter FAR more than a policy at a particular time - because, despite your belief in a policy, you might be wrong. So let the voters decide. Journalists are there to give voters...

@RadioFreeTom @JRubinBlogger @WalshFreedom 8...information, not entertainment. A democracy cannot function without legitimate information. And that is why all of us must dedicate ourselves to stopping the nonsense, growing up, and returning to reality once these horrible years are behind us.