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This is why I think conservatives messaging against socialism is going to be hard, and maybe even a disaster. Here's Rubio laying out the case against socialism by discussing "free health care" and "free education." Those are winning, popular issues! /1
More to Rubio "the core of Marxism" is the promise "we're going to provide you security with free" programs. Promise of freedom through economic security was #actually the core of the New Deal, which remains very popular.

Tougher terrain for them to fight on than you'd think. /2
I keep coming back to this @michelleinbklyn piece about how the Dems plan of saying "Trump, he's way outside the bounds of normal conservatives" completely backfired on them. The GOP: "Sanders is so far outside your normal Democratic politician." Yeah! /3 slate.com/news-and-polit…
@michelleinbklyn One reason Social Security could pass in 1930s is people could *imagine* secure retirements - pensions were advertised in the 1920s - they just couldn't get them.

Rubio invoking doctors without bills and college without debts as scaremongering trope is a tough rope to walk. /fin
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There were 3 sets of false arguments on Dodd-Frank made by conservatives over the past decade, ones that would consistently come back no matter how well they were addressed. Mike Bloomberg has made all 3, and one has to question how well he'd see to those crucial reforms. (1/8)
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An important political maneuver conservatives used was not pushing for Social Security cuts per se but instead privatization. Beyond leaving it to 'markets' to do the cuts, it meant that centrist liberals embraced the position of cuts + revenues alone. /1
It showed they weren't up for the ideological battle. Obama-era officials were genuinely confused why conservatives wouldn't take this-or-that deal, not understanding it was the public-ness of Social Security and Medicare they wanted to end, not some formula or ratio. /2
In Obama-era this disconnect was clearest with Senator Wyden's adventures with Paul Ryan in, ahem, "premium support" (i.e. privatizing Medicare). Wyden thought 'responsible-adult-market-deficit' stuff while Ryan dreamed of drowning the leviathan. /3 washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
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Mike Konczal
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For the book, I wanted to read a bunch of primary sources around race and the New Deal, especially why black voters moved so decisively to the Democrats in 1936. With the help of the excellent @FDRLibrary staff, here's some neat stuff I found to share. (1/9)
@FDRLibrary First, a 1935 memo prepared for Rex Tugwell, with an electoral focus, bullet-pointing why blacks would be disappointed in or supportive of the New Deal. Not sugar-coated in either direction.

(If you were wondering if the two-page memo existed back then, it did.) /2
@FDRLibrary Next a very saavy-style August 1936 political take from The Nation, on why black voters might swing to the Democrats.

If it was written today it would be: “STAY SMART: CIO, WPA, Eleanor, convention drama, lack of GOP action might save the Dems from disarray.” (/3)
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