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President Carter emerges to rouse the nation's moral conscience once again, as he has with the work of his post-presidency.
Part of what propelled Jimmy Carter to the White House in the wake of Nixon's criminality was his deeply-held Christianity - not the kind white right wing evangelicals display today, but rather the old fashioned, Biblical intonations to love the poor, the sick & the immigrant.
His condemnation of Trump, as a former president, and his pronouncement of Trump's illegitimacy, is a big deal.
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Joy Reid
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I read scads of research on this and devoted a whole chapter of my book to it. Donald Trump did not become president because of white working class "economic anxiety." He became president because of racialized, demographic anxiety, which he channeled through immigration. Fin.
Moderate Democrats who say they can "win back Trump voters" by talking to them nice, laying off Trump (including protecting him from impeachment) and offering "jobs, jobs, jobs" are not operating in current political reality.
Lots of people in the thread saying "but what about Russia?" Read my book (The Man Who Sold America) or MalcolmNance's books or the Mueller report. What Russia's IRA did was inject racial hate and fear into white Americans' social media feeds &anti-Clinton drek into AA feeds...
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Klobuchar was solid tonight. But the "I should be the nominee because I can win in Trump Country" lane is very crowded. She needed to put an elbow into one of the other ones (though her "there are three women up here" moment came close. Helped her that Tulsi bodied Time Ryan tho.
Tim not Time. Doggone edit-less Twitter!
And I would add that her answer on why black voters should choose her wasn't strong.
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First impressions: 3 standouts tonight.

Julian Castro had a very good night and had the best strategy going in (basically, take out Beto)

Booker also had a strong night. But strategically, he may need more.

Warren was solid, and no gloves laid on her, so she had a good night.
The others kind of blended together, or maybe even hurt themselves a bit (Ryan, Beto) or came off as outside the ideological median of the Democratic base (though Delaney may have cut the legs out of some others).
The biggest knock on Castro has been his lack of overt charisma. That didn't show tonight. He came to play.
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