Thread by @4GWDOTDOTDOT

1/ I am sure pundits are going to praise @WalshFreedom for running against Trump. His opposition to Trump is more on the level of personal characteristics than policy. One concept that pundits do not seem aware of is the "correlation of forces." It is a Soviet concept of how to

2/ measure the relative and net power of two opposing forces. American pundits just love to wallow & immerse themselves in personality politics. It's fun. But, look at the GOP's correlation of forces. It has built a $5 Billion information warfare infrastructure dedicated to the

3/ idea that only the free-est free market can deliver freedom & prosperity, and government can only deliver slavery & tyranny. On issue after issue, corporations & the rich are exalted. There is another information warfare infrastructure dedicated to generating, amplifying, and

4/ spreading Fear and Anger and Loathing, while delegitimizing the federal government, the Democratic Party, and Democratic voters. Then, there is the information warfare infrastructure on the web and IRL that fulfills its role of reacting to the Fear, Anger, & Loathing. Nothing

5/ the Proud Boys or other white nationalists hate has not already been designated a legitimate target for destruction by the Christian Right, with the exception of Jews which get "code word" anti-Semitism from the Christian Right in terms that look like prophecy. Personality

6/ punditry & journalism let's all these correlation of forces slide by. Blame Trump for everything. But, Joe Walsh's policies won't be very different from Trump's or Jeb Bush's. Sure, there may be nuances, but there won't be that many differences to make a difference. Or look at

7/ the Democrats and their correlation of forces. @PaulHRosenberg has an excellent piece on why Democrats use the term "hard left" to describe Warren, Sanders, & AOC. salon.com/2019/08/25/whe… // One reason, given the correlation of forces is its think tanks are administration's in

8/ waiting. All the centrist, moderate policies just waiting for a centrist, moderate candidate are in the DC think tanks & given promotion time on cable news. There's probably a very good reason that Warren has gone deep into academia to find real subject matter experts to craft

9/ her policies. Her candidacy is as much an intellectual insurgency as it is a grassroots insurgency. Sanders' campaign is more of a grassroots insurgency than an intellectual one. But, Biden? Klobuchar? Harris? Buttiegig? Where is the deep intellectualism of their policies? And

10/ so with Walsh & Weld, we get stories of how brave they are. But, what we will not get stories of is how deeply immoral & rotten is the core and foundation of the GOP. There is absolutely nothing redeemable in the GOP. That is the message a Joe Walsh ought to campaign on. It

11/ is time for the GOP to take a long, hard look at how it has turned its back on Lincoln & Eisenhower & Rockefeller. From the jump, William F. Buckley sided with the white supremacists. Campaign against that. wapo.st/2Pa5rPI?tid=ss…