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Greg Sargent Profile picture
@GregTSargent
Aug 29, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
News:

@BetoORourke is rolling out a comprehensive new trade agenda today. I've got it here.

Key: Beto would end Trump's trade war with China, cancelling all of Trump's tariffs, on Day One of his presidency.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@BetoORourke The big picture point: Each Democratic candidate's trade plan also embodies an ideological answer to Trump's nationalism.

Beto's answer: An affirmative case for international trade as something that can be managed to spread its benefits more widely:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
In short, as I tried to argue, Beto's plan offers a real and serious answer to Trumpism. For a really good explainer of some of these ideas, and a lot more, see this @toddntucker thread:

@toddntucker Great points from @paulkrugman on how Trump's nationalism is seductive to Trump country, but is actually deeply damaging it. Farmers rely on global markets his trade wars are closing off.

As noted above, this is the worldview Beto's trade agenda rebukes.

nytimes.com/2019/08/29/opi…

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May 4
If Mike Johnson and Rs are going to hold hearings blaming Dems for campus antisemitism, then Dems should use them to highlight:

*GOP's antisemitic Soros smears
*Trump dinner with antisemite Nick Fuentes
*GOP embrace of Great Replacement Theory

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/181295…
Mike Johnson, James Comer, and Marjorie Taylor Greene have all suggested George Soros and/or globalist elites are behind the protests.

“These are House Republicans who did not condemn Trump for having dinner with a neo-Nazi," @RepDanGoldman tells me.

newrepublic.com/article/181295…

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Dems could also use the hearings to voice core principles: It's possible to call out antisemitism while also insisting it's not antisemitic to criticize Israel's war conduct. Or that one can call out violence while also condemning police overreaction.

newrepublic.com/article/181295…


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May 1
Fox News propaganda about Trump's trial has taken on some serious North Korea vibes: It absurdly portrays him as exerting total mastery over the proceedings and even depicts his dozing off as an act of heroic defiance.

This is MAGA cult stuff. 1/

Link:
newrepublic.com/article/181138…
Trump has been posting video of Fox personalities gushing about what a huge winner the trial has been for him. But privately, NYT reports, he's raging at his lead lawyer, which suggests he doesn't actually think things are going too well for him. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/181138…

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One Fox News personality even tried to push the idea that Trump's trial is good for him because it means he can't do rallies, denying the media an opportunity to "twist Trump's words."

Trump is Owning The Media and the media doesn't even know it! 3/

newrepublic.com/article/181138…

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Apr 27
NEWS --> Prominent conservative Michael Luttig excoriates the right wing SCOTUS justices as "radical," predicting that in the 1/6 case, they'll protect Trump entirely.

“I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will ever be tried," Luttig tells me.

Link:
newrepublic.com/article/181059…
Also in our interview: Michael Luttig, who has strong conservative credentials, is harshly critical of the lines of questioning from Samuel Alito and the other right wing justices.

Luttig says a grant of immunity would "license all future presidents to commit crimes against the United States while in office with impunity."

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Michael Luttig predicts that either a delay will enable Trump to cancel Jack Smith's 1/6 prosecution if he wins the election, or that SCOTUS will grant Trump immunity so he never even gets tried.

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Apr 23
Liz Cheney just said something deeply troubling: If SCOTUS delays immunity ruling, voters might be denied critical info about Trump's conduct while the mob raged, which Jack Smith has. That would reward Trump allies for their coverup.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/180896…
Jack Smith has testimony from top Trump advisers about how Trump acted *during the attack* that the 1/6 committee could not get. SCOTUS delay could keep that buried.

In this piece, a senior 1/6 committee staffer explains what this means. Deeply sobering:

newrepublic.com/article/180896…

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Those who deny that 1/6 was an insurrection rely heavily on severing Trump's incitement of the mob from the procedural coup. But Jack Smith likely has evidence showing they are one and the same story. It would be scandalous if *that* remains buried.

newrepublic.com/article/180896…

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Apr 19
Important but overlooked: Mike Johnson explicitly says he's acting on Ukraine because believes what our intel agencies say about the awful consequences of abandoning it.

That's a striking rebuke to MAGA's lies about the "deep state" and the war. 1/

Link:
newrepublic.com/article/180808…
“I really do believe the intel and the briefings that we’ve gotten,” Mike Johnson said, noting that Ukraine aid will stop Putin from expanding his conquest later.

Remarkably, he's saying that on these matters, the "deep state" is telling the truth. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/180808…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene recently said Biden/pro-Ukraine Rs are "tools of the foreign war loving deep state."

This sort of thing is why some senior Rs admit parts of the GOP are under Russian influence (h/t @juliaioffe). Johnson rebuked that MTG lie. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/180808…

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Apr 13
Remarkable: By my count, at least a dozen GOP incumbents or prominent candidates in competitive House races are election deniers, were involved in 1/6, or voted against Biden electors.

New piece from me on the deep election-denial sickness in the GOP:
newrepublic.com/article/180690…
Kevin McCarthy's craven pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago in 2021 was a fateful moment, showing that the GOP would make the construction of a massive historical lie about 1/6 central to its identity. This mostly failed politically, but the GOP is sticking with it.

newrepublic.com/article/180690…

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When Mike Johnson worshipped at the Mar-a-Lago shrine yesterday, it was really about reassuring Trump that the House GOP remains fully committed to his 1/6 mythmaking.

"Election integrity"? The biggest threat to our elections is Trump and his movement.

newrepublic.com/article/180690…

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