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25 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
1. This is nonsense

2. It's Mother Jones but this is also a GOP talking point, which includes many pro-Trump pundits. A byproduct of "Trumpism" corrupted Jared Kushner and Brooke Rollins is that Trumpism 2020 embraced a version of Democratic Party identity politics
Sure, all politics are tied to identity, but what I mean is that the GOP has connected itself to a specific, toxic variation of identity politics, i.e., "get off the plantation," which makes a kind of religious antiracism a staple of the GOP
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White people in general and white men specifically are in fact the biggest victims of the American regime 1/
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They are the butt of every joke, they are not allowed to celebrate their heroes and symbols and myths, but are contioned to worship the "Other" instead and denigrate and ignore what is theirs 3/
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Ah, so this justifies a foreign policy of bombing and invading as many countries as possible and selling weapons to the Saudis so they can exterminate Yemenis. Because the Holocaust and stuff
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People ask why, as a Latino, do I hammer white guilt among liberals and conservatives. Hayes' tweet is illustrative: the modern white psyche conditioned to worship nonwhites in a religious psychosexual ethnomasochism 1/
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Lindsey Graham is illustrative of the GOP as an institution. Like the GOP, people think Graham is a weakling, a kind of dainty loser blowing in the wind. But Graham is extremely conniving. He is aware of the cartoonish image of himself and uses it to his advantage 1/
So you think you're going to play Graham, you're going to whip Graham/the GOP into shape, but it doesn't work out that way and you ultimately end up getting conned and neutralized 2/
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The issue with Powell was never that fraud didn't occur. Fraud is real. The issue was that Powell's claims are so extraordinary that they would threaten to discredit the case for real fraud if they turned out to be untrue and this ended up a grift 1/
Fraud happened. There is evidence of fraud happening across the country that should be the focus. But by making Powell the center of it all, the case for fraud began to hang on her claims primarily. Then "belief" in Powell became a kind of purity test for everyone 2/
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