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In 2008, voters who would later support Donald Trump saw fear in McCain. Worse, weakness.
Here was a so-called Republican who could have brutalized publicly the first black man to make a credible run for president of the United States, but chose not to. stoehr.substack.com/p/trump-believ…
To Trump loyalists, McCain was too scared of offending an establishment in thrall to politically correctness. To them, this was tantamount to being liberal, which meant McCain was worse than a Republican In Name Only. He was a traitor to real Americans. stoehr.substack.com/p/trump-believ…
Trump believes racism makes him strong. McCain knew better. He stood for something, whether you liked it or not, not merely against it. stoehr.substack.com/p/trump-believ…
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Bloomberg saw a draft of the address. It does not indicate emergency powers.
Serious Republican pushback against idea of invoking war powers. For instance: Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said the standoff over funding the wall “is an imminently solvable problem.”
Key point: Admin appears to believe SCOTUS will bail out POTUS and if it doesn't, the Republican base will blame SCOTUS.
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1. Odds are the president is going to go on television tonigh to announce that he’s going to agree to reopen the government after 17 days of closure while simultaneously invoking national emergency powers allowing him to bypass Congress to start building a wall on the border.
2. If this happens, and it’s still an if, you’re going to hear plenty of people react in ways that range from concern to alarm to fear to outright panic. Some will accuse Donald Trump of trying to be an American dictator.
3. Others will argue, I think correctly, that the president is abusing the constitutional powers of his office, reinforcing the claim that he’s unfit to rule and sending him one further step toward removal.
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1. @billscher touches a conventional wisdom that I keep chewing on. "Loyalists always seem satisfied ... so long as he is fighting. Winning has been secondary." I said the same two weeks ago, but the longer this shutdown goes on, the more I think the wall really matters.
2, If fighting were all that mattered, he would have caved already, no? If the wall really matters, then this could go on for a long--long--time. I guess we'll see.
Lately, I always profit from reading @billscher. You should too. politico.com/magazine/story…
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