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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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Jul 23
It's absolutely critical that Kamala Harris strongly emphasized that a Dem president and Congress will codify Roe nationally in her first speech as presumptive nominee.

This has huge political benefits that are going underappreciated. 1/

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/184147…
Right now, the Trump camp plans to attack Kamala Harris by making the election a referendum on the status quo under the unpopular Biden.

But a promise to codify Roe nationally gives Harris a way to campaign against the status quo that *Trump* created. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/184147…

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“If Trump gets the chance, he will sign a national abortion ban,” Harris said. By contrast, if voters elect a Dem Congress, it will pass a measure “to restore reproductive freedom," and "I will sign it into law.”

That's a contrast about *the future.* 3/

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Jul 16
This is galling: Media accounts are noting that both Trump and Dems are attacking the other as a grave threat to democracy.

But Dems base this on what Trump and his allies *say in their own words.* Trump makes shit up.

Media isn't making this clear. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/183860…
Some media figures are eager to portray Trump as a "uniter" after the shooting. Axios is pushing this hard.

But Trump just unleashed a rant that wrecks this storyline, calling Jan 6 a "hoax" and depicting our Justice System as corrupt to its core. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/183860…

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Trump isn't backing off his vow to pardon 1/6ers and says 1/6 was just fine. This is incompatible with being a "uniter." It embodies the ideas that MAGA is not subject to the law the rest of us are and that invalidating the votes of millions is *good.* 3/

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Jul 12
Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve.

Maybe we should cover Trump's lying as a sign of his unfitness for the presidency. 1/

(link)
newrepublic.com/article/183784…
The new Marist poll also finds that 56 percent say Trump lacks the character to be president.

Dishonesty is surely part of that. WaPo found that Trump told 30,000 lies/distortions as president. @ddale8 described his lies at the debate as "staggering." 2/

newrepublic.com/article/183784…
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I'd like to suggest a crucial distinction, one between "mental" unfitness for the presidency and "temperamental" unfitness for it.

Some polls use the former language, and there Biden loses.

But when it's polled as the latter, Biden leads Trump. 3/

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Jul 11
NEWS --> Ron Klain, a top Biden ally, acknowledges to me that polls showing Trump solidly ahead are "in the ballpark" of being right. But he insists there's still a path.

On the pod, Klain sat for 20 minutes of hard questions about Biden's way forward:
newrepublic.com/article/183675…
This is former WH chief of staff Ron Klain's first serious interview since the debate. Some highlights: I read him the latest polling that shows Biden in trouble and asked him if he acknowledges they're right. He basically concedes it is, with caveats:

newrepublic.com/article/183675…

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Kate Bedingfield, a former top adviser to Biden, tweeted that the Biden camp has not demonstrated a serious path forward. I asked Ron Klain to respond to that claim. Here's our exchange:

newrepublic.com/article/183675…

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Jul 5
NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.

"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"

Video/story here:
newrepublic.com/article/183443…
Mark Robinson yelled that "some folks need killing" as a "matter of necessity" during an extended diatribe in Lake Church in southeast North Carolina, in which he attacked a wide range of unnamed enemies.

Transcript/analysis below, video in link.

newrepublic.com/article/183443…


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Interestingly, the Pastor at Lake Church confirmed to me in an email that he and Robinson expected that the "some folks need killing" line might be "scrutinized."

Then the Pastor defended the comments.

newrepublic.com/article/183443…

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Jun 26
It's amazing that some corporate leaders are willing to support Trump for tax cuts and deregulation while shrugging about what Trump's threats to wreck democracy and the rule of law would do to the business climate. 1/

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/183147…
WH chief of staff Jeff Zients tells me he and other admin officials are making an expansive case to CEOs that a good business climate depends on stability and the rule of law. He talked to me about the case he made to the Business Roundtable recently. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/183147…


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Former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault has been privately arguing to executives that stability and the rule of law matter.

Notable: Chenault tells me some execs say they don't think 1/6 can happen again!

Astonishing head-in-the-sand stuff. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/183147…

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