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4 Nov, 10 tweets, 3 min read
This is idiotic. You know damn well Joe Biden is going to get more votes than Donald Trump.

There are a lot of people who like Trump and other bad things. There are more people who dislike them. It is an idiotic lie to say that equals “a Trump country.”

This is extremely dumb. Donald Trump has twice run for president and twice gotten fewer votes than his opponent; his approval has never been above 50 for a day of his presidency. His supporters are a minority of Americans. There are too many of them, but it is not their country.
Democrats have won more votes in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections, so I would suggest that perhaps the people who need to get out of their bubble and spend more time with real voters are the right-wing pundits who think America is a center-right country.
Democrats have won the most votes in 7 of the last 8 elections, dating back 28 years, largely powered by huge support among people of color.

When journalists and pundits say this is “Trump’s country” or “a center-right nation,” they say people of color don’t count. It’s racist.
I’m rather well aware of how fucked up things are; how broad and deep the rot is on the right in this country; I’ve been saying it for actual decades. You want to talk about it, I welcome that.

But I’m not gonna stand for erasing the *actual majority of Americans* in doing so.
I am *very* angry about this.

And btw, this BS isn’t new.

When Barack Obama won a 7-point, 365 EV landslide in 2008, a bunch of white journalists immediately rushed to insist: center-right country!

They just don’t think black and brown people count. mediamatters.org/health-care/al…
Yes he did! And that casual racism is so typical of the news media he remained a welcome guest on Sunday television news panels.

This white-conservatives-matter-more mentality leads to media coverage that favors them; it’s a thumb on the scale.

If you're part of the diverse coalition of decent people that has accounted for the most votes in SEVEN OF THE LAST EIGHT presidential elections, a feat *unprecedented in American history,* this is YOUR country. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
* it was Bryon York. They're basically the same asshole, but we like to be accurate around here.
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27 Oct
Something that isn’t properly understood (particularly among journalists) is that The Right spent hundreds of millions of dollars and decades creating a facade of intellectualism and a key part of that was marketing nitwit partisans as “brilliant..”
And a lot of journalists were active participants in this, both because they got suckered by dumb arguments and because praising the intelligence/seriousness of this right-wing faux intellectuals was a easy way to demonstrate their own seriousness and “objectivity”
See also: “Paul Ryan is a wonk”
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27 Oct
Barrett was nominated by a president who lost the popular vote, confirmed by a Senate majority that represents fewer people than the Senate minority, and gives the Supreme Court a majority of members who were appointed by presidents who took office after losing the popular vote.
This is not a legitimate Court.

I think Republicans know that they’ve forced a Democratic trifecta to expand the court.

They’re gambling that the stolen Court will help prevent a trifecta and entrench minority rule.

We need a landslide they can’t steal. Then we expand the court.

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26 Oct
John Roberts wrote the decision gutting the Voting Rights Act.

When people act like that doesn’t matter, they’re showing you who they are.
And it isn't just the Voting Rights Act -- though that would be enough. John Roberts is a right-wing judge. Here's a piece from @AaronBelkin and @SeanMcElwee last year explaining:

nytimes.com/2019/10/07/opi…
Also, there is a *huge* difference between "having countermajoritarian capacity" and being dominated for 50 years (and decades to come) by America's minority party.

This is the right's "we must have tyranny of the minority in order to prevent tyranny of the majority" BS.
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26 Oct
Better headline: “Trump tries to steal election by preventing Pennsylvanians from voting.”
It’s just really weird to frame an article about the possibly that voter suppression leads to a result opposed by most people as a question of whether polls will fail to account for suppression.
“Boss, it looks like Trump is trying to suppress enough votes to steal the election!”

“Oh my god this is a huge story —quick, write an article about whether polls will appear to have been wrong!”
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23 Oct
The New York Times’ political coverage is bad, folks.
Not just in the article — she’s the lede!
The NYT should retract that article. But it should also publicly explain the process by which it came to portray a GOP campaign consultant and a GOP official as regular swing voters.

How did @elainaplott make contact with them? Did a GOP flak set it up? Did she research them?
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22 Oct
Morons.
Trump’s gonna get through the first twelve minutes without using a racial slur and reporters will write their “new tone” ledes, which they will refuse to reconsider over the next hour.
and the day ends the way it was always fated to end ImageImage
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