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How can a genuine bookworm 🤓name just one?

Best book for understanding Trump-Russia, and how we got here: @timothydsnyder, Road to Unfreedom.

Snyder is fluent in multiple language (I think 11) and uses primary sources in original languages.

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@TimothyDSnyder Best book for understanding the current dangers to our democracy, and how to save democracy.

How Democracies Die, @dziblatt and Levitsky.

As a followup, watch this interview with Levitsky:

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@TimothyDSnyder @dziblatt Best classic treatise for understanding the political psychology behind how we got here: Hofstadter's Paranoid Style in American Politics.

See also @karen_stenner

Best book for understanding the Trump-Fox-Russia propaganda techniques, How Fascism Works, @jasonintrator

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@TimothyDSnyder @dziblatt @karen_stenner @jasonintrator One of the best books for understanding the legal and historical underpinnings of impeachment: High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Bowman)

Best book for understanding what happened to the Republican Party, and our current slide into oligarchy, To Make Men Free, @HC_Richardson

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@TimothyDSnyder @dziblatt @karen_stenner @jasonintrator @HC_Richardson To Make Men Free was one of my sources for this thread on the history of the GOP. ⤵️

Fiction: I enjoyed the Neapolitan Novels: Life in Mafia-run Naples from the viewpoint of the women. (Elena Ferrante)

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@TimothyDSnyder @dziblatt @karen_stenner @jasonintrator @HC_Richardson More suggestions here: terikanefield-blog.com/recommended-bo…
@TimothyDSnyder @dziblatt @karen_stenner @jasonintrator @HC_Richardson I should have added this one (and will add to the page of suggestions)

If you want to understand race in America, this is a great book. It purports to be a history of Brown v. Board of Education (the case that ended segregation in America) . . .
@TimothyDSnyder @dziblatt @karen_stenner @jasonintrator @HC_Richardson . . but really, it's an exhaustive legal history of blacks in America and how race informs politics.

I came away from the book understanding that we began fighting the Civil War before 1789, and we're still fighting it.
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The Parnas doc dump included this letter from Giuliani to Zelensky.

Nothing new here. Just another smoking gun.

First Giuliani makes noise about how it’s perfectly legal for the president’s private lawyer, on behalf of the president, to ask a foreign leader for a favor.

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1/ Hint: It isn't

Trump and Giuliani are using the levers of government for their personal benefit.

This is what happens in what Hungarian scholar Balint Magyar calls mafia states—his name for the autocracies springing up in the former Soviet Union.
politicalscience.ceu.edu/events/2016-11…
All along Giuliani has been open about the fact that, as Trump’s “private lawyer” he was in Ukraine to “vindicate” his personal client.

On Oct. 1, he said this👇

He argued that he had the right, as Trump’s lawyer, to look out for Trump’s personal interests.

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(Thread) Senate Trial

Possible outcomes and why McConnell wants to deep-six a trial.

💠Enough GOP Senators vote against Trump and remove him from office.

If this happens, it will be the first time in American history that a president is removed by this means.
1/ You might think, why are Republicans so opposed to this? They’ll have President Pence, and they’ll run someone for president who isn’t so hated.

The GOP will resist because if they remove Trump—no matter how guilty he is—they know what will happen to their party.
2/ Trump supporters will turn on the GOP, splintering the party.

The only way Trump’s removal holds the GOP together is if Trump leaves voluntarily and throws his support behind Pence.

Do you think Trump would do that?
Me, neither. He's not the type.
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There will be a Senate trial.

Before you comment, I want to say a word about

💠cynicism and
💠unrealistic expectations.

Both are dangerous.

Cynicism is a feature of MAGA thinking, and Putin politics and policies. Cynicism leads to political nihilism.

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Putin stays in power in Russia by promoting a form of cynicism and nihilism.

Us. v Them politics is based on cynicism (all political leaders lie, so you may as well stick with our liar instead of the enemy liar)

Cynicism says "why bother watching the trial?"

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Unrealistic expectations leads to cynicism.

Most of the cynicism I see on the left right now comes from unrealistic expectations.

Rule of Law doesn't mean that all lawbreakers end up in jail.

Trials don't always go the way they should go. Not all liars are "punished."

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