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I posted this yesterday but I keep thinking about how William Randolph Hearst wanted to Hitler to write columns. There was some worry that Hitler might want the same word rate as another Hearst regular, Benito Mussolini.
New York Times op ed section: Here's a bright idea! Let's get Tom Cotton write a piece arguing for a military crackdown!
The ghost of William Randolph Hearst: Amateurs. Pure amateurs.
I feel like people have forgotten Michelle Wolf's fantastic skit about the New York Times op ed section. It's still very relevant!
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1. It's been a hard week and will not stop getting harder. So I wanted to share something that might bring a smile: Little Lulu, Class Warrior. From Little Lulu #16 (Oct. 1949). Set up: Lulu meets a spoiled rich boy who mistreats her.
2. When Lulu protests, rich kid sets his dog after her. Then out of stupidity he gets his head trapped inside gates of his mansion.
3. Lulu goes to get help. But she sure takes her time.
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1. To give credit where credit is due, Tom Cotton really played the New York Times like suckers. He got them to valid his ideas as a legitimate part of the discourse and also gets now to play the free speech martyr to political correctness. He's a smart guy.
2. Cotton is worth thinking about in his own right: he's really vying for the role of being Trump 2.0 -- the smarter and more competent Trump who can win in 2024 & create a more durably authoritarian regime than Trump has managed.
3. Going back to 2016, I've been saying that Trump is not really the American Mussolini as some fear. Rather Trump is the Yankee Gabriele D’Annunzio, the feckless adventurer who shows the weaknesses of the system and thereby prefigures the Duce to come.
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1. Trump is doing a lot of scary things and there are people whispering his ears (ahem, Tom Cotton) who want him to do far worse. But it's worth keeping in mind that he's doing this out of weakness, not strength.
2. Trump wants to be a strongman but he's weak, weak, weak. That's the dynamic here. His coalition is splintering and he's getting pummelled in the polls. The hard right -- Coulter, Carlson -- are goading him by calling him weak. And he's weak enough to listen.
3. More thoughts here on how Trump's weakness -- his political weakness, his character weakness -- is driving things. thenation.com/article/politi…
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