1. God bless @jheil who is doing right by his country and by his fellow Americans and are doing these things w/o regard to his professional concerns, which incentivizes us to stay silent as the GOP descends into shit, not extremism, something profoundly WORSE. Trump is flirting w
2. behaviors now that doesn't border on terrorist threats- it IS terroristic threats. AND HE KNOWS IT. AND McCONNELL KNOWS IT. AND BARR KNOWS IT. AND MCCARTHY KNOWS IT. AND JOHNSON KNOWS IT.

Where is the FBI in this? I appreciate the fucked up position that @christopherwray is
3. in here. But we're a nation of laws. We're supposed to be a nation of laws. It's so far beyond the fact that Russia's "absurd" effort to create a scandal about Hunter Biden is based on the kid's addiction issue-which is so tasteless. So cruel too. The larger point is that
you have a large chunk of our federal government- the AMERICAN GOVERNMENT- being directed by the RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. WILLINGLY. COOPERATIVELY. If this is what @RudyGiuliani & @RonJohnsonWI are doing in the open- what might they be doing on the down-low. These men have clearly
demonstrated that they will do ANYTHING to maintain power for their party. So, right now. we must ALL be @jheil. We must stop pretending this is a normal moment in American politics: this is not normal and we're in a democratic crisis. There is still a deafening silence.
In @StephenKing speak- it's time to strap it on (and no, "it" is NOT a gun!) The President of the United States has moved from "lock her up" to a tacit endorsement of kidnap & execution. You know it as much as I do.

The Q is, what are you doing to deal w it?

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21 Oct
@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus Pretty much every R that went Never Trump deserves a shout out (& someone best be giving my girl, @JRubinBlogger one on here!) bc as I taught my students, going NT means a lot more than giving up your party. It means social isolation. It means being severed out of an entire world
@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger , black-balled, out-casted, and frankly, depending on what you get up to, being a straight-up traitor. And I have news for you, reading this post, confident that you'd do the same thing if the situation was reversed. But don't be so sure. Statistics governing human behavior would
@quitethewhit @MaryLTrump @CheriJacobus @JRubinBlogger have to be completely defied for that to be true and we know that wouldn't happen. So we KNOW that many of you wouldn't, even though you are very confident right now that YOU would. Interesting, huh?

Something to keep in mind next time you flip on that progressive programming.
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1. As per @OliviaTroye, via brilliantly-led convo by @nicolewallace & her resident doctor for the show, Trump was advised but rejected (or really, was incapable of accepting) arguments that he was undercutting the economic recovery he needed by undercutting the covid response.
2. By being "in the room where it happened" @OliviaTroye is able to verify for us that Trump was presented all of these persuasive arguments: that you can't regenerate economic activity when people w $ are afraid to leave their homes to go spend it & those
3. w/o are being both denied aide to "survive" it and most imp, that masks are what you need the most to contain the virus and that in fact, if you just wear a fucking mask, every man, woman, and child, we could manage this shit show and still live decently normal lives while we
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1. Oh boy! BC let me tell you an interesting (but kind of depressing) fun fact about unmarried women.

Unmarried women are disproportionately Dems

It becomes depressing bc, once women get married, they become more Rep

Why? They adopt their husband's party.

Yes. STILL. In 2020
2. BUT the good news is all that "activist judging" the GOP's Federalist Society revolution was designed to come take over the federal courts- ESP the Court of Last Resort, the Supreme Court, the reverse, made women (almost) legally equal to men. They were nowhere CLOSE to that
3. even well into the 80s!! Yes, that's right ladies. Here's a fun fact you need to go to grad school, climb the corporate ladder, work in a male-dominated industry like construction (or election twitter), or try to diversify a 75% male Congress to learn: Sexism is still an issue
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Ok, here's is my 1st, "Let me fix that message for you."

It's for the @ossoff campaign- whose effort down in GA Senate could very well be the Dem's 4th seat- their majority maker, which I think is something they might want to highlight on their digitals to Dem coalition voters.
2. What is going on in this @ossoff ad? First, and foremost it is fixing the main mistake that the original ad makes. It is nationalizing the race/pitch by tying in Trump and McConnell and that stirs up those fab negative partisanship emotions in the target & in my theory
3. would make them more like to pony up money bc now they realize the "stakes" of the race are higher than one random senate race about some dude they'd never heard about. Esp if they happen to be a younger voter or a voter of color- bc yawn, its a boring white dude (Ossof isn't
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The only message that would work w Reps & right-leaning Indies to get them to vote against Trump are ones that appeal to their own self-interest. That's why the '16 ads failed.

You have to make Rs fear for themselves- NOT the greater good.
I know that's hard to hear, but that's the truth. Liberals always want to make ads that speak to themselves. If policy mattered to non-voters, they'd be voters. If Rs cared about others- they'd be liberals.
To be clear-Rs care about (known) or same- tribe others. Just not other, others.
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1. Had a few of you ask me to respond to @Edsall's well-written & thought out column on less thought of aspects of the status of the election- here if you haven't read it. 1st- I want to remind you long-termers- for months, years, I've been talking about nytimes.com/2020/10/14/opi…
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3. hadn't previously been voting- get them to register & then get them to turn out to vote. So this registration phenomenon in PA, WI, MI, etc, this is just that- coming to fruition. And if anything, these numbers are smaller than I feared they might reach though what makes them
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