Thread by @ThePlumLineGS

Trump and WH have largely shut down dialogue with major US Muslim groups, and there's no sense that any internal process or thinking is informing Trump's running comments about Muslims, WaPo reports: washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…

This gets at some of the issues I raised in this piece:

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1107673731093200896

"Trump appeals to people’s smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward. We need to generate a nationalism that does the harder task of political rhetoric, which is to make people feel big-hearted and secure."

@PeteButtigieg to me: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

@PeteButtigieg "The greatest nation in the world should not have much to fear from a family, especially children, fleeing violence. More importantly, children fleeing violence ought to have nothing to fear from the greatest country in the world."

@PeteButtigieg to me:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

@PeteButtigieg I want to flag another thing about this @PeteButtigieg interview. He talks about race and the economy in a way that gets beyond the tedious "LOL but economic anxiety" versus "not everyone in Trump country is racist" debate:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

@PeteButtigieg One other key point from @PeteButtigieg in our interview.

I asked him whether the 2020 Democrats should pledge not to abuse war power without Congressional authorization, and whether we should debate Obama's failures on that front.

Interesting answers:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…