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Oct 1, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
It's fascinating to me that Trump fundraising messages bully; DCCC messages plead. Also the DCCC keeps addressing me as "Charles" for some reason.
Vox noticed it too, at least on the Trump side of the equation vox.com/culture/214404…
Barbra Streisand now calling me "Charles" too ...
Nancy Pelosi also.

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Jan 27
In the minds of many, Jews are a problem. They were supposed to be replaced by Christianity, or by Islam, or by nationalism, or by socialism - and yet they keep lingering on, refusing to accept the message that history is done with them and it's time for them to be gone.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, it's awkward to say directly that Jews should not exist any more. But many people are very ready to say - and even more to hear - that the Holocaust shows that Jews need to improve, be less difficult and particular.
The Jewish memory of the Holocaust is: "You can live in a highly cultured and advanced nation - and yet still your neighbors may turn on you and try to kill you."

Much of the non-Jewish memory is: "Will you people never learn to trust the superior ethics of your many critics?"
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Jan 22
I appreciate why those appalled by the attack on Congress January 6, 2021, emphasize the violence against police that day. Trump supporters and fellow-travelers will concede that violence against police is wrong - even if they hedge with many "what abouts?" 1/x
The violence against police on January 6, 2021, was vicious and intentional. Yet the anti-police violence was incidental to the day's central crime. President Trump incited - and thousands of his supporters attempted - a violent plot to overturn a democratic election. 2/x
Trump supporters attacked police on January 6, 2021, because the police stood in the way of the mission Trump sent his supporters to execute: killing, kidnapping, or incapacitating Vice President Pence to force a halt to the electoral count so Trump could stay president. 3/x
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In 2017, Trump inherited a strong economy, low interest rates, and a generally stable international situation. For the next 3 years, Trump enjoyed the dividends from his inheritance - until he crashed into his first real crisis, the COVID pandemic. 1/x
In 2025, Trump inherits a strong economy again, but this time shadowed by rising interest rates. He arrives with expensive commitments: trade wars, mass deportations, renewal of a big tax cut, etc. US foreign policy also faces more dangers than his easy 2017 inheritance. 2/x
For 3/4 of his first term, Trump presided as a good-times president, taking personal credit for the long expansion that began half a decade before he took office. Good-times presiding is what he knows how to do. 3/x
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I was glad to be invited onto @Morning_Joe this morning to talk about Syria. The show is one of the most important platforms in US politics. With Trump threatening to jail his critics, small d-democrats must stand together. I always speak freely without fear anywhere I appear.
I’ll recapitulate here what I said this morning. I reminded viewers of President-elect Trump’s statement that Syria is none of US business - and his VP-elect’s bad habit of repeating Russian propaganda that the Assad regime protected minorities.
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Don't be misdirected. The nomination of Kash Patel slathers frosting and sprinkles on the outrage ... but the outrage is the announced firing of Director Wray. Latest in @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Canadian governments - federal, provincial, municipal - better have plans ready for when displaced asylum-seekers (thousands? tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands?) attempt to cross the border from the United States into Canada.
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