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Pair of "Memo to House Democrats" tweets by @NormOrnstein inspired my story on impeachment for @Salon. 1/4 salon.com/2019/05/26/ful…
And @Profepps properly placed Trump's Mueller Report lawlessness in the much broader context it requires: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… 2/4
Which in turn called for comments on serious of the situation & what needs to be done from Steven Levitsky, co-author with Daniel Ziblatt of “How Democracies Die”: 3/4 amazon.com/How-Democracie…
I tied all that together & more. There is a sane way through this madness, with much factual support: 4/4 salon.com/2019/05/26/ful…
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Paul Rosenberg
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Generic anti-Semitism isn't driving terrorism like the Poway shooting. A *specific* narrative, "cultural Marxism" is. And it was specifically designed for that purpose. salon.com/2019/05/05/a-u… 1/11
Author/researcher @DavidNeiwert wrote about the pattern of violence being spread via the "cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory at Daily Kos: 2/11
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And researcher @brucewilson tweeted out an informative thread tracing the links: 3/11
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Paul Rosenberg
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Trump's "9/11" attack on @IlhanMN was not just the amplification of a "controversy" created by a rightwing rage machine, as @brianstelter said on @CNN. There's a MUCH bigger creation story behind that: 1/12 salon.com/2019/04/20/cam…
To begin, @brianstelter was 100% right: "Controversies don't just erupt like a bolt of lightning sparking a fire. No. Controversies are created like an arsonist lighting a match.” 2/12
But there's a 2-fold story *behind* that story: how the right-wing rage machine was created in the first place. @DavidNeiwert explains the basic architecture & @chris_bail explains how Islamophobia got added relatively late. 3/12
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Paul Rosenberg
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"Constitutional hardball" bends the rules. "Constitutional beanball" breaks democracy. Republicans excel at both. Lawprofs @DPozen & Joseph Fishkin on 1st, @jedshug on 2nd: 1/11 salon.com/2019/02/09/wel…
In 2004, law prof Mark Tushnet coined the term "constitutional hardball" here: dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/hand…
I described it as "things a judge might let you get away with under the Constitution, but that your mother never would”: violations of norms, not laws. 2/11
For years, political commentators argued that Reps did it >> than Dems, reflecting the asymmetry described by @MattGrossmann & @DaveAHopkins in *Asymmetric Politics* amazon.com/Asymmetric-Pol… 3/11
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