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28 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Trump's plan is Putin's: Never concede & treat Biden like an illegitimate leader. Dictators like Putin don't like having their illegitimacy pointed out. Now he'll have the former US president saying it about Biden.
American leadership in promoting democracy and fair elections around the world will be challenged not just by Putin & Xi Jinping, but by a former US president. It's all of Putin's whataboutism dreams.
This was Trump's message from the start, the "we've done lots of bad stuff too" remarks when asked about his fondness for Putin. It's also the message of every dictator. "Sure, we're corrupt, but we're ALL corrupt."
Now Putin has Trump as his propagandist-in-chief, falsely attacking the integrity of US elections and the US democratic process as fraud and a hoax. And he has the Republican Party behind him all the way.
It's especially revolting from those GOP who profess to care about democracy in Russia, or Belarus, or Cuba, or Venezuela. While they stand with Trump in this? Go to Hell. You're handing your enemies ammunition and setting back the cause of democracy for years.

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26 Nov
Putin is in no hurry to acknowledge Biden’s victory because there’s no benefit. But showing loyalty to Trump, like a Godfather to a foot soldier, still bears fruit and likely will even after Jan 20.
Easy to picture Putin inviting Trump to conferences in St Petersburg to join him in condemning the “hoax” of US democracy, the “warmongering” Biden and NATO, etc. They’ve been aligned on so many issues all along, so why not?
Or the next step of Putin offering Trump a job, the way he hired Germany’s ex-chancellor Schroeder at Gazprom and as propagandist. Trump’s debts disappear and he barely has to change his message at all!
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22 Nov
While most concerns about the US becoming like Putin's Russia focused on an authoritarian president, I'm starting to worry about an enfeebled Congress with extremist wings like Russia's: Nationalists and Communists!
Such extremes can push people toward a relatively reasonable sounding authoritarian. Putin had the nationalist ranting of Zhirinovsky and the Communist Zyuganov to make him look like the only sane choice.
As I wrote years ago about this radicalization trend, the "Spanish Civil War" model, this isolates the middle. But that presumes an eventual victory by one side. Instead, it can leave an opening for a opportunistic agnostic like Putin, who cares only for power.
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19 Nov
Trump isn't a fighting a legal battle, it's a war for reality, as it has been from the beginning. Attack anyone who reports the truth. First it was CNN and the NYT. Now it's Fox News. You cannot shame the shameless.
Vindman, Fauci, Krebs, et al, the long list of people and institutions Trump has slandered for telling the truth. Being a god to a small minority in a fake world is preferable to such a person than being a loser in the real world.
GOP complicity in this latest assault is why I and many others called for voting them all out, no half measures. They are selling their souls for pennies on the dollar and doing huge damage to the foundation of American democracy.
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19 Nov
It's comforting to call Trump, Giuliani, and the rest clowns, but clowns with power are not funny at all. They won't overturn the election, but they are doing tremendous damage, which was always the goal.
As I wrote in 2018, Trumpism's goal is to split the country, to carve out enough supporters who believe whatever he says, no matter the evidence. Attacking the media and discrediting elections were always part of it.
When Trump continued to insist that the 2016 was fraudulent, many wrote it off as childishness and ego. Yes, but discrediting the system also had a point, preparing for an election he didn't win.
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12 Nov
Trump's attacks on the integrity of US elections is not ad hoc chaos. It is part of a plan from in 2016, when Putin expected Trump to lose to Clinton, but do as much damage as possible.
This time, Putin expected Trump to win, but the Dems surprised him by wisely selecting Biden, not Sanders or another far-left candidate. (And Covid happened.) Now it's back to Plan A, weakening trust in the system, but from a far more powerful position.
It looks ridiculous on its face, a president and other elected officials waging war on the system that put them in power, but the hypocrisy is irrelevant. Creating a generation that doubts the system can ever be fair is the goal.
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11 Nov
ICYMI, and are wondering what a renewed US leadership role in the world might look like, my long piece in the @dallasnews is out from the paywall: dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…
"Any post-Trump wave of goodwill must be put to good use by enacting policies that protect American democracy and promote its spread abroad... Follow the money and root out the corruption that is turning democracy into a charade."
"The left thinks that America has little worth contributing, and that the world will get along better without it. The right thinks America doesn’t need anything from anyone and doesn’t care what happens to the rest of the world." Both seem to agree on "Yankee go home."
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