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@GregTSargent
Aug 30, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
When Trump blasts Fox News for failing to "work for us," what's key is the *open and unabashed* assertion that he is entitled to a 24/7 propaganda outlet working on his behalf.

The open flaunting of Trump's corruption is a key feature of it.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
We should view Trump's demand that Fox News function as his personal propaganda network, along with his nonstop lying and attacks on legitimate news organizations, as its own form of insidious corruption:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
"All politicians shade the truth. But most hew to an underlying belief that gaslighting voters too shamelessly treats them with deep contempt; that at some point, factual reality has to matter; and that this is necessary for democracy to function."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

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Greg Sargent Profile picture
Nov 5
How did Harris close the gap w/Trump on the economy?

Here's how: Harris campaign and Dem groups have spent a whopping $225 million on ads about the economy, per data provided to me by AdImpact. GOP caught napping, outspent by $70 million.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/187950…
Harris campaign/Dem groups spent $225 million on econ ads from 7/21, when Biden bowed out, to the present, per AdImpact data. Trump/GOP: $155 million.

This challenges idea that Ds are so obsessed w/Trump hatred that they took eye off the ball on econ.

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A fascinating thing: Harris/Dem ads on economy are aimed at different groups in the potential anti-Trump coalition: Some aimed at working class whites who are soft Rs, some at nonwhite working class who are Trump curious, some at more affluent voters.

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Greg Sargent Profile picture
Oct 31
Today’s NYT featured a headline above the fold that read as follows:

“Biden Misstep Delivers Grist to Harris Foes”

This gets at one of the very worst things about the way political media has functioned during the Trump era. Here's a thread on the problem. 1/
I'm not sure what Biden meant w/the "garbage" comment. But even the harshest interpretation of it can only be that he meant Trump supporters *who openly make virulently racist displays* are "garbage."

That's news, I guess. Cover it, sure.

But what made it *front page* news? 2/
Why did this merit above-the-fold coverage days before the election?

*Because Trump/Rs made a big issue out of it.*

The headline itself gives away how this works. The news hook is literally that it provided "grist" to Republicans.

The problem with this should be obvious. 3/
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Oct 28
People keep saying Trump's rally was originally intended as his closing argument, but devolved into a hate rally instead.

But the rally we all saw IS his closing argument. He is running explicitly on much of what we witnessed on that stage.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/187616…
Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden is best seen as an explicit, very public declaration that if he wins, well, he told you exactly what you were going to get, so you’d better bend the knee and get ready to swallow all of it.

It's a coming-out party.

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When Stephen Miller declared that "America is for Americans and Americans only," that echoes the "100 percent Americanism" of the 20s and 30s.

“Miller is evoking the extremist fascist rhetoric of pre-war America,” fascism scholar Lauren Young tells me.

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Sep 25
Utterly repulsive: Trump is now attacking Haitians in a small PA town with truly vile smears.

But the town manager tells me all Trump's claims are lies:

*Haitians not taking Americans' jobs
*No 2000% population increase
*No uptick in crime

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/186331…
At a rally this week, Trump claimed Charleroi PA has seen a 2000% population boost due to Haitians.

But as town manager Joe Manning told me, if this were true, its pop would have gone from 4K to nearly 100K. He literally burst out laughing at the idea.

newrepublic.com/article/186331…

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Trump said the Haitian "invasion" of PA is part of Harris' "war on workers." But the town manager told me Haitians were lured to Charleroi after a local employer couldn't find workers. And PA's unemployment rate is 3.4%.

More from the town manager below:

newrepublic.com/article/186331…


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Sep 21
It's good that GOP Gov Mike DeWine urged Trump and Vance to stop smearing Haitians. But DeWine misses something big here: Trump *wants* the Springfield debate to be as charged with hate and rage as possible. He thinks that's a winner for him. 1/

New piece
newrepublic.com/article/186224…
When GOP Gov Mike DeWine called out Trump and Vance for lying about Haitians, he suggested it will alienate swing voters.

But this misses how Trump sees things. Trump thinks all the rage and hate will activate swing voters' latent MAGA tendencies. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/186224…

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Trump's language is explicit on the idea of migration as racial contamination:

*migrants "poison the blood"
*we let in people from "shithole countries"
*they're emptying prisons/insane asylums

Trump has made Springfield into a symbol of all this. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/186224…
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Sep 13
Big news out of Springfield: The Mayor has now confirmed that the emailed bomb threat did contain hateful language about immigrants.

Trump and Vance can no longer pretend not to know exactly what their vile demagoguery is accomplishing.

New piece from me
newrepublic.com/article/185953…
Springfield Mayor Rob Rue, a Republican, says the bomb threat email contained "hateful" language about immigrants and specifically "Haitian folks."

Trump/Vance valorize these places, but have no real concern for the impact their demagoguery has on them.

newrepublic.com/article/185953…

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On Springfield, don't lose sight of the larger context: Again and again and again, Trump has refused to back off this sort of hate speech even *after* it has incited threats of violence.

I went back and looked. The pattern is clear:

newrepublic.com/article/185953…

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