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Greg Sargent Profile picture
@GregTSargent
Aug 1, 2019 • 6 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Trump has another rally in Ohio today. Will we get another Two Minute Hate?

Analysts say such displays are emboldening right wing extremism. Time to ask whether officials inside government want Trump to dial back the hate for safety purposes.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
I interviewed a former National Security Council official about Trump's hate rhetoric and its impact on domestic extremism.

Awful:

“Trump is getting a wide circle of elected Republicans to acquiesce in his horrible language, and some even to excuse it."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Trump's own intelligence officials are warning about white supremacist activity.

But we need to ask a follow up question.

To what degree are those officials concerned that *Trump's* displays are fueling the threat?

Dems should demand an answer to that:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Here's another disconcerting thought.

Trump's racist displays are slowly expanding the boundaries of what GOP officials will tolerate as publicly acceptable.

As @jtlevy says, Trump is changing what GOP voters expect from their elites:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@jtlevy National security pros say Trump's rhetoric is fueling domestic extremism.

@FrankFigliuzzi1 says it "empowers hateful and potentially violent individuals."

The DHS analyst who was pushed out in 2009 tells me Trump is "mainstreaming their message":

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@jtlevy It's important to see Trump's attack on Rep. Cummings' district as a racist trope with a long history, one that fits comfortably into the story he's telling, which depicts urban, multicultural America as a place to be hated and feared:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

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Jan 31
The awful news that Elon Musk clashed w/top Treasury official in an effort to access govt payment systems raises a crucial question: Did Trump authorize this, or not?

I talked to former officials who explain why this is a key Q, and why it's so alarming:
newrepublic.com/article/191014…
I spoke to former Treasury and OMB officials, and they said Elon Musk accessing government payment systems could give him the power to selectively turn off payments. They described what this really means in very clarifying terms. See below:

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We really need to know if Trump directly authorized Musk to pursue access to Treasury's payment systems. Either answer is bad, in a different way:

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Jan 25
The ugly celebration of mass deportations by Trump, the WH, and Karoline Leavitt is vile on its own. But it also has a purpose: It's a pretext for Trump to vastly expand his powers. That's what the "invasion" imagery is really about.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/190696…
WH is pumping out imagery of migrants being marched on to military planes while claiming deportations "have begun." But crossings are down, and as @ReichlinMelnick notes, removals by plane go back years. The point is to portray a state of permanent war.

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Here's the thing: The failure to deport people quickly enough isn't actually a serious national problem. GOPers and red areas expressing serious misgivings about removals, fearing economic disruptions. Pro-deportation hysteria will not be sustainable.

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Jan 23
Good piece by @AdamSerwer identifying a key through line of Trumpism: Creating subordinate, inferior classes that are more easily subjected to persecution and abuse 1/
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Adding to @AdamSerwer, another one of Trump's executive orders also does this: It effectively declares that by pronouncing us under "invasion," Trump is now unbound by Congress or statute in determining what to do w/the "invaders," as I reported. 2/

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@AdamSerwer Relatedly, this is also an important nugget from @AdamSerwer: Some factions in the conservative legal movement are using the "invasion" rationale to invent a new way to undermine the guarantee of birthright citizenship. 3/

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Jan 18
Scoop --> Republicans didn't intend this, but it turns out the Laken Riley Act gives Steve Bannon a big weapon against Elon Musk. Bannon tells me he'll use it to get MAGA AGs to sue to block H1B visas. Rs created a big mess for themselves here.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/190405…
What folks have missed is that the Laken Riley Act's provision empowering state AGs gives Bannon a way to block H1B visas.

Bannon says he'll now get friendly AGs to sue to stop HB1s from, say, India. He's right: He absolutely can do this. Details below

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This also creates more MAGA splits. Bannon will demand bans of H1B visas from, say, India. But will Secretary of State Marco Rubio want that? If not, Bannon can get AGs to try to force him to.

Also: Tech industry lobbyists are worried, source tells me.

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Dec 14, 2024
Ominous: GOPers are now saying Trump is picking Kash Patel to "clean out" FBI and restore its "integrity." This will be their cover to go along w/Trump's scheme to unleash FBI on enemies. Media already credulously echoing this claim. Awful.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/189406…
Nobody is required to pretend GOPers actually believe it when they say Trump is picking Kash Patel to "reform" the FBI in any meaningful sense. It's a lie. Rs know Trump is only picking him to target enemies and they should be hounded on this point.

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There's also this media narrative that the GOP is now "suspicious" of law enforcement as part of a principled ideological repositioning. Nonsense. This should *itself* be treated as spin, as cover to justify abuses that Trump already intended to unleash.

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Dec 9, 2024
Trump's win confirmed once again that our information ecosystem is a total dumpster fire, and that Dems need a real answer to it.

I asked three leading candidates for DNC chair how they'd fix this.

Here's what they said. 1/

(new piece from me)
newrepublic.com/article/189147…
First note that Elon Musk spent $20 million on the RBG PAC, which sought to deceive people into thinking Trump's abortion stance is similar to Ruth Bader Ginsburg's.

This and X becoming a right wing disinfo machine show the depths of the problem. 2/

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I asked three DNC chair hopefuls how they'd fix the party's info problem. @benwikler tells me that millions of voters are getting *all* their info about Dems from GOP and right wing sources. He would train an army of surrogates to "disrupt" this. 3/

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