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Aug 26, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
No agency is more dysfunctional than the Federal Election Commission, despite the efforts of people like @EllenLWeintraub and former commissioner @AnnMRavel to make it work to enforce campaign laws. Now a resignation means it is entirely powerless. Blame Trump & #MoscowMitch
Corruption and kakistocracy combined; no nominees at all through the entire Trump presidency; the commissioners there are all past their terms and are acting. The Republicans on the FEC have all united to block enforcement of the laws. Now only 3 sit, w 4 needed to do anything
#MoscowMitch would like to keep it that way through 2020, so he can brazenly act in defiance of laws and regulations. Trump is delighted to comply. This is outrageous, unethical, immoral, shameless and totally corrupt.

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Nov 7
There will be a lot of soul-searching among Democrats, as there should be. Those who criticize Joe Biden for not dropping out earlier, or Kamala Harris for her campaign, are looking in the wrong place. This was a broader rejection ofe ruling elites. 1
Including military leaders like Milley& Kelly, exemplary scientists, more broadly all connected to the federal government. I continue to believe a core is Covid, the disruptions in life caused by it and the response to it, ironically driven by the failures of Trump. 2
What Biden inherited was a broader set of problems, supply chain and others, driven by Covid, including inflation that beset every industrial democracy. That we emerged from it better and stronger than anyone else was not evident to a large swath of Americans. 3
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Nov 2
The meme of the election is nauseously optimistic. I am there, for these reasons:
1. Turnout. Ds have a great infrastructure & framework. Rs turned the effort over to Elon Musk after Trump used the RNC $ to pay for his lawyers. Musk has done for R turnout what he did for Twitter
2. The October Surprise. Not Bibi taking reckless action to hurt Harris & help Trump. It is Madison Square Garden. A big backlash after the hatefest should make a difference in PA and other swing states. Late deciders breaking 2-1 for Harris.
3. Women. Women will make up 53% of voters. With the gender gap, that could itself be decisive.
4. New voters. Polling models, based on the last election, have not adequately factored in voters new since then. Many now seeing the Access Hollywood tape for the first time.
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Oct 31
The Supreme Court‘s opinion in the Virginia voter purge case is more deeply unsettling than it appears on the surface. It is about only 1600 voters, a significant portion probably perfectly legal. But right wing justices completely blew away the express language of the law. 1
Congress has superseding authority on federal elections. Actions like Youngkin took are expressly forbidden within the 90 day window before the election. Six justices decided that their partisan views are more significant than the law. This is not the first time. 2
Alito has led the way here. He has made it clear, with a majority of allies, that they will rewrite the law and impose their own views. It is an astonishing and deeply disturbing distortion of what the framers intended, and how the Court operated before Roberts took over. 3
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Oct 25
Let's unpack this. Donald Trump just referred again to the press as "the enemy of the people. He has promised to lock up his adversaries, "the enemy within." Pledged to forcibly deport 12 million or more immigrants, legal or not, first putting them in detention camps. 1/
He has expressed admiration for Hitler, wants generals like Hitler had. He is talking regularly to Netanyahu, urging him to do nothing to help Biden. He talks to Putin, pledges to blow up NATO, shows increasing signs of mental decline. He is a narcissistic sociopath & grifter. 2/
He has been convicted on 34 felony accounts and adjudicated rapist. He praises the Supreme Court for Dobbs, said he would pardon violent insurrectionists, absconded with our most important secrets. He called our heroes who died for the country suckers and losers. 3/
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Sep 22
This is a must-read thread. Unlike many on this site, I believe Maggie Haberman has done some terrific work on Trump, and is unjustly ripped because not every piece fits the narrative. But her frame here is simply wrong. 1/
It reflects a circle-the-wagons mindset that refuses to heed or accept legitimate criticism of the double standard and false equivalence that we see too often in our elite media that set the standard and the signals for all others. 2/
It was a huge mistake for the Times and the WaPo to eliminate public editors and ombudsman. The Times’s rationale, that they would respond instead to public criticism, has been hollow at best. They reject all public criticism as slanted. @DougJBalloon has powerful points. Heed them.
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Aug 14
David, I understand why journalists want to take this stance. But the fact is we have had no reflection, no willingness to think through how irresponsible and reckless so much of our mainstream press and so many of our journalists have bern and continue to be 1
Watch how often the White House press briefings end up as embarrassing zoos. Consider for example at O’Keefe’s shouting at and hectoring the press secretary. Far too many questions have little to do with what Americans care about, and more reflect the egos of the reporters. 2
Watching the farce of a faux press conference with Trump, with not a single question about what should’ve been the big story of the day, an alleged $10 million bribe from Egypt, and few questions about what is most important, the stakes of the electionand Trump’s approach to governance. 3
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