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@GregTSargent
Sep 15, 2020 • 3 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Trump just declared once again on Fox News that the outcome of the election cannot be legitimate if he loses. This is the third time he's made this claim explicit. Yet the political media just seems to largely tolerate it. That's insane. New piece:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
When Trump says no outcome can be legitimate in which he loses, it isn't just "crazy Trump playing the media chaos game."

He's telling *his supporters* to gird for the election to be stolen *from them.*

That makes civic damage or violence more likely:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Trump's claim that the opposition is illegitimate functions as justification for his own nonstop corruption of the election. If the opposition is illegitimate anything goes.

Conventional political reporting can't handle this imbalance (cc @jayrosen_nyu):

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

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Jul 31
Susan Collins, who voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding, is now taking credit for securing a new bodycam commitment to distance herself from Trump and ICE.

Dems will have to go on offense on ICE to thwart this scam.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/213839…
Here's why I'm worried about Susan Collins taking credit for ICE bodycams: It's gestures like this one that Collins has so often used to great effect to win in Maine despite its Dem lean.

This is the sort of thing she does very well.

(h/t @burgessev)

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@burgessev Incredibly, some of the local press coverage is already giving Susan Collins credit for getting ICE to commit to bodycams.

If you want to know how Collins wins in this Dem-leaning state, coverage like this is a good place to start.

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Jul 7
Vile: Mike Johnson now says GOP might try to undo birthright citizenship with legislation, which is unconstitutional. I've noticed a pattern: He and Vance are using shifty language to sell this as a trivial reform. The threat is alive. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/212747…
JD Vance says GOP will close the "loophole" created by birthright citizenship. Johnson is floating a mere "legislative fix." They're using language designed to make this sound like a tweak, a small thing, when it would be seismic and hugely toxic. 2/

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In theory, GOP can pass legislation restricting birthright citizenship. As of now four SCOTUS justices would likely uphold it. You can see them passing something that might fail, similar to how Roe's foes chipped away for many years before succeeding. 3/

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Jun 17
Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power.

New piece from @PolPhilPod and me. Threading highlights below. 1/
newrepublic.com/article/211936…
Musk helping incite fascist violence abroad even as he became a trillionaire illustrates the future he really wants. He seems to envision something like a multi-continental, Armageddon-like Total War in defense of white peoples against "invaders." 2/

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We looked at some of Musk's recent language and tropes. They're getting more fascistic. He's endorsed the concept of "Reconquista" and is flirting heavily with the idea that isolated crimes by immigrants reveal a deeper genocidal intent toward whites. 3/

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May 1
NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10-22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action report finds.

This would offset GOP post-SCOTUS advantage.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/209830…
Dems can redraw 10 additional House seats for 2028 just in New York, Colorado, Oregon and Maryland, the new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. That's if Dems don't flip *any* state legislatures this cycle.

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If Dems can flip a few state legislative chambers in places like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota this cycle, a path opens to redrawing up to 22 additional House seats in time for 2028, the analysis finds.

If Dems have a good midterm that's doable.

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Apr 20
News --> Paramount, Meta, and X won't say what happened to their huge donations to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Dems say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/209254…
First, let's note that the Trump library saga combines the worse of his imperial presidency all in one: his use of lawsuits to extort private entities for tribute; his garishly awful decorative and architectural taste; and his Nero-scale megalomania.

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After the companies settled with Trump in his shakedown lawsuits, the money was pledged to his presidential library. But the fund was then dissolved. Senate Dems asked the companies where the money went. They have now replied. I obtained their answers:

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Apr 7
If Trump bombs Iran power plants, the humanitarian crisis will be horrific. Experts predict water shortages, closed hospitals, many deaths.

“We’ve never had a US president so proudly promise to commit war crimes," Sen Chris Murphy says. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/208709…
This is how to do it. Sen Chris Murphy tells me:

"Everybody in that chain of command has to think hard about whether they want to be part of the execution of that order."

He predicts bombing Iran power plants/bridges will kill thousands at outset. 2/

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Trump's threat to bomb "every" power plant in Iran is the key. That leaves no doubt he's threatening war crimes. The threat to destroy "a whole civilization" only hammers it home.

The key is what happens in the aftermath of bombing all those plants. 3/

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