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Larry Middleton 💙🇺🇸🌻 Profile picture
@l78lancer
Sep 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
this is why I like @michelleinbklyn.
nytimes.com/2020/09/24/opi…
"Trump may be behaving like a strongman, but he is weaker than he’d like us all to believe. Autocrats who actually have the power to fix elections don’t announce their plans to do it; they just pretend to have gotten 99 percent of the vote.
It’s crucial that Trump’s opponents emphasize this, because unlike rage, excessive fear can be demobilizing. There’s a reason TV villains like to say, “Resistance is futile.”"
"Trump is an aspiring fascist who would burn democracy to the ground to salve his diseased ego. His willingness to break the rules that bind others gives him power out of proportion to his dismal approval ratings."
"Still, Trump can be defeated, along with the rotten and squalid party that is enabling him. Doing so will require being cleareyed about the danger Trump poses, but also hopeful about the fact that we could soon be rid of him."

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Larry Middleton 💙🇺🇸🌻 Profile picture
Jan 17
Once again the media is obtuse. Trump neithers deserves nor should he be given any credit for the current middle east deal. There is only one president at a time. it's not Trump. Trump meddled in the entire affair until it became convenient for him to sidle up to the players.
But the fact is if the deal blows up - and there's always possibility that will because of Netanyahu, it will be framed as Biden's failure, not TrTrump'sTrump has nothing to lose.
And there's a high probably based on history that both Trump and Netanyahu will walk away from it because it suits their political and tranactional needs.

Once again, the media is kissing Trump's ass and obeying in advance.
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Larry Middleton 💙🇺🇸🌻 Profile picture
Jan 17
The truth is I'll probably piss off some of my friends who refused to support Biden, Kamala, and the dems because they were pissed over the Palestinian issue. I'm sorry about that, but I'm okay with it.

The fact is (and I agree) that it is an atrocity and not handled well.
But refusing to support the dems over it was always a failed, doomed and, frankly, dumb notion. The folks who turn against the administration and democrats want to believe that they took a stand based on values, integrity, and morality. Maybe. I don't doubt their intentions.
But the net practical result was that they gave into petulance and myopia at the expense of any and all power in the forseeable future. Tactically accommodating their feelings and beliefs will have long-term or even pemanent strategic affects even without impuning their motives.
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Larry Middleton 💙🇺🇸🌻 Profile picture
Jan 11
Time.

Time is arguably the single most precious resource because no one can replace it once it's gone. I've greatly resisted the urge to criticize Merrick Garland, not that he didn't deserve it, but adding to the din seemed unhelpful. But now we know the results. Between:
1. Garland wasting time initiating the investigation, and 2. SCOTUS enabling and encouraging Trump to stall, delay and waste as much time as possible, they're the two biggest reasons that so many folks believe justice wasn't served and why there's so little trust in the "system."
For the people who believe in hell, many of then undoubtedly believe that there is a special place waiting for Garland's and The SCOTUS conservatives' arrival for aiding and abetting a high criminal and arch enemy of the state.
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Larry Middleton 💙🇺🇸🌻 Profile picture
Jan 7
Thanks for responding. Despite it's brevity, there's a lot in your response to unpack. I suspect that you're making an overgeneralization and perhaps some oversimplification, too. You're equating diverse voters with "progressive" when they're not necessarily the same thing.👇🏿
Furthermore, that progressive voters are younger/irregular voters are "veering right" is anecdotal at best. The wave elections of 2018 and 2020 contradict your claim and, at this juncture, 2024 looks more like a point in time rather than a trend.👇🏿
And you are conflating the policies of progressivism with the political emotional mood of some people in the country, specifically some on the left. The policies haven't changed, but the attitudes of some people have regardless of the policies.👇🏿
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Larry Middleton 💙🇺🇸🌻 Profile picture
Jan 6
Former democratic voters who voted for Trump will come back as soon as Reagan democrats did: NEVER. Democrats who spent 30 years chasing them are like Chalie Brown with Lucy and the football: SUCKERS. Let's tell the truth for a change? If it wasn't Trump, it'd be someone else.
Yes, it may be the economy, stupid. But their view of the economy is inextricably, indelibly, and permanently tied to race, hate, and resentment. Yet whenever the democrats achieved success, it came directly from expanding the electorate, not by perpetually looking backwards.
As long as democrats continue to look back in hopes achieving a pipe dream of prodical democrats returning to the fold, they will continue to dissuade the changing, diversifying, growing voting population that has been the secret to their success, and diminish their own fortunes.
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Dec 8, 2024
Folks are angry about election theft and the apparent lack of will of party leadership to do anything about it. That must be addressed. But for folks to deny that Biden being dislodged by big donors caused confusion didn't also contribute is just denial and must addressed, too.👇🏿
Democrats have always prided ourselves on being able to walk and chew gum. Now is not them time for tunnel vision refusing to examine ourselves because we're mad. Separate and apart from any election theft, party need to take a good, hard look at itself.👇🏿
All of the possible factors contributing to the loss must be addressed or we're just pretending, and we can forget about winning again any time in the near future. We can't be thin skinned or defensive about it.
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