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Greg Sargent Profile picture
@GregTSargent
Aug 19, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Trump's scam is failing him.

* Trump publicly says recession talk is a conspiracy

* But privately, Trump fears economy could hurt his reelection

* To top it all off, Trump laughably claims his tax cut is making ordinary US consumers "rich"

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
It's not sufficiently appreciated that *both* sides of Trump's economic agenda -- the nationalist trade policies *and* the plutocratic tax cut -- are failing and unpopular.

With an assist from @Neil_Irwin:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@Neil_Irwin I don't understand why we keep ascribing magical political powers to Trump, every time he rolls out some crazy new conspiracy theory.

The better explanation is that he senses he's on the verge of losing control and is panicking about it:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@Neil_Irwin I don't get why Dems aren't jumping on this new Trump quote.

Farmers are reeling from Trump's trade war. A recession threatens.

And his response is that everything is just fine, because his massive corporate tax cut is making ordinary consumers "rich":

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

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Greg Sargent Profile picture
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.

newrepublic.com/article/190405…Image
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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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Dec 5, 2024
Striking: In numerous cases, Republicans or GOP-aligned industries are now admitting that mass deportations and rolling back Biden's climate agenda could prove disastrous in their parts of the country.

In my new piece, I've compiled many examples of this:
newrepublic.com/article/189054…
In Georgia, some local Republicans are openly saying that repealing green energy investments will result in shuttered factories and job loss.

This shows what a scam Trump pulled by claiming the green transition existentially threatens the working class.

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A clear pattern:

*In California, agriculture interests and GOP lawmakers fear mass deportations will cripple their industry
*In Texas, construction industry fears same
*In Georgia, at least one town that went for Trump worries economy will be upended

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Dec 1, 2024
This is a good discussion but on immigration in particular this is not an intellectually adequate frame for understanding what happened. The groups did not dictate the Biden/Harris immigration agenda. If anything they were sidelined/ignored more aggressively than under Obama 1/
At this point someone will note that Harris took left wing positions on immigration in 2019. True, but the vast bulk of GOP attacks concerned the Biden/Harris handling of immigration *while in office,* and there Biden was mostly at odds with the groups all throughout 2/
It's true that Biden undid *some* of Trump's immigration policies. But these were mainly ones that produced particularly terrible humanitarian outcomes. Aside from that Biden took many actions that the groups disliked. See this @David_J_Bier rundown 3/
cato.org/blog/list-120-…
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