Thread by @mattsheffield

Joe Biden's first speech since his unofficial victory struck lots of the correct notes. We need unity and healing but it must be done correctly to work. Here's the link to the video and transcript if you missed it: npr.org/sections/live-…

The most important step in healing is to understand that the Trump/GOP coalition is not monolithic. And also, he should understand that the GOP elite does not act in good faith. Their goal is to do nothing.

Mitch McConnell figured out years ago that Americans don't support conservative economic or governmental views.

So instead of trying to pass laws to make that happen, his goal was to stop laws and use courts to push his agenda. I wrote about this in 2018 salon.com/2018/02/07/mit…

This is critical because even GOP voters don't support slashing the government the way that conservatives want. I know because I used to be a pollster.

Here's what I found: thehill.com/hilltv/what-am…

The key to national healing will be for Biden to separate Republican voters from Republican elites. This means that he MUST call out the Republicans for never presenting policies. This must be a DAILY exercise by his White House.

Republican voters don't know that the healthcare bill that Trump nearly signed in 2017 would have effectively removed pre-existing conditions protections from Obamacare.

They don't know that the GOP wants to take away Medicaid expansion from the millions who now have it.

Democrats were not paying attention as the GOP built a multi-billion-dollar parallel reality machine to ensnare religious people to manipulate them. This "Matrix" of media must be crushed through direct confrontation and accountability.

Even now, most mainstream media reporters and editors just don't know all-encompassing the conservative media panopticon really is.

RW media literally are claiming that Trump is going to win, even now:

https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1325165290775142401

One of the biggest things I am going to be doing in the months and years ahead will be to expose just how little conservative media figures know about politics.

When they're on cable news panels, their manipulative ignorance isn't called out.

Quite literally, US conservative politics has become an identity and a religion. The only way to free people from the delusion is outreach that fights the lies where they happen.

But I will need millions of people to help with this. Please spread the word! Thanks so much!

PS: One of the other things I want to do is expose how predatory the right-wing ecosystem is on its marks. They literally have no problem helping scam artists cheat elderly people out of their retirement savings: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-lon…