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He'll learn that what he can get away with in a rally, he can't get away with in a White House press conference.

Remember: A big win in Nov. doesn't require converting ALL MAGAs.

Dems won the midterms by 8 points & Dems won everywhere.

For a landslide we improve a bit on that
*everywhere meaning across regions, including traditional Republican strongholds. Wins were not confined to already blue areas.
This is it, exactly.
There are reasons that 40% has gained so much power. Fixing what's wrong will take time. November will be the start.

Also, consequences don't happen immediately. There's not a big hand that swoops down and immediately . . .
. . . smacks someone who does something evil.

What we learn from life (and literature) is that consequences take time and often take unexpected forms.

In a democracy, the first step is for the majority to feel roused to vote.
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Teri Kanefield
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Facts don't seem to scare anyone in the Fox-Trump-GOP bubble.

They seem convinced that they can just make up whatever facts they need, and change their story as often as needed.
It's not just that they don't care. They are actively trying to subvert the facts.


Some people in the Fox bubble believe what they are told, but many know very well that they are being told lies.

Does that blow your mind?
I wrote this in 2018: slate.com/news-and-polit…

It has aged well.

In a nutshell: They lie because they want to destroy, and they know the lies destroy.
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Teri Kanefield
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The best answer to this question comes from Richard Hofstadter's classic work. "The Paranoid Style in American Politics."

One theory is that we are in the grip of something new and terrifying that has never before happened . . .

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In fact, what we’re witnessing has deep roots in American history.

Hofstadter conducted a review of American politics from before the founding of the nation through McCarthyism and noticed a pattern among a small impassioned minority on the fringes of the political spectrum.

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He called their behavior the “paranoid style” in politics.

The paranoid style afflicts radical movements on the left as well as the right, but because Hofstadter wrote just after the McCarthy theory (and early 20th century fascism) he focused more on the right wing.

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Teri Kanefield
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Cheryl point out 👇 in response to my lengthy thread and blogpost in which I tried to dislodge the notion so many people hold that the Trump-FOX-GOP—including most of the GOP members of Congress—kowtow to Russia because the Russians are holding blackmail against them.

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Here is the thread:
Here it is as a blogpost: terikanefield-blog.com/no-the-entire-…

Yes, of course Trump is compromised. He is compromised by decades of entanglement with the Russians.

He is compromised because he took Russian money.

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In fact, in 2018 when "collusion" was the word on everyone lips, I argued that "collusion" was completely inadequate to describe the Trump's connection with the Russians.

It was much deeper than mere "collusion" or even "conspiracy."

See👇

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The biggest single disruption of human society in modern history, perhaps ever in human history.

This “health crisis” is a big lie. It is the biggest big lie in history.

The fabric of societies has been shredded, human interactions have been altered, economies decimated.
All based on a manufactured pretext, mass manipulation and media-inducted mass panic.

Humanity was treated to a similar crippling shock event with false flag event of 9/11, the manufactured global “war on terrorism”.
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They have crashed every economy.
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Why should there be any widespread layoffs or unemployment?

We are in a public health crisis, not an economic crisis

There is a short-term revenue problem

Government should loan businesses the money they need to maintain salaries, contracts, etc

Figure out how to pay later
It's a public health crisis with consequences for the economy, society, and politics that we need to deal with

But many politicians and economists appear to be treating this like a recession that requires stimulus

This is the wrong mentality
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The Trump administration is helping them immeasurably with its bungled communications.
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3. Trump is providing obviously false assurances. This is never a good look when trying to fight a disinformation campaign and muster the public trust needed for effective public health interventions.

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