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6 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Mitt Romney loses the 2012 presidential election. Runs for Senate and wins in 2018. Votes to impeach his own party's president in 2020. Becomes one of the most powerful people in America in 2021. Quite an arc!
The Senate is now tied 50-50, so a lot of stuff will come down to razor-thin votes that hinge on moderate lawmakers. Romney is one of the few swing-voting Republicans, and will thus exercise outsized power in the coming Congress, especially if Biden wants bipartisan involvement.
You might ask, who could have possibly predicted that Romney would become one of the most consequential lawmakers in Congress? Well:
If you'd like to see some of my other fun predictions from 2020, you might like my newsletter: yair.substack.com/p/what-i-got-r…

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7 Jan
A note to progressives: If you really believe that we are in an emergency for our democracy, you should be willing to work with people like Romney, who share that urgent commitment to democracy even if they hold policy positions you disdain. The alternative is what we saw today.
People like Romney are never going to be Democrats. They are never going to convert to your political worldview. But they are people with whom you can defend democracy, build a shared society based on laws, and hold the far-right at bay. You can't do America alone.
Also remember: Twitter is disproportionately full of angry people who would rather burn the country down than compromise on their own perceived purity. These people are a loud minority, and they don't represent the rest of us.
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@repcleaver The rabbinic sages used to pun on biblical words and phrases all the time! It was done playfully or to provide pneumonics, and wasn't about the literal meaning of the words. They would not have done well on Twitter, apparently.
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By focusing on Georgia & refusing to raise the profile of Trump's ineffectual flailing, Biden is letting the Republican party fight itself while Dems fight to retake Congress. Amazing how folks still distrust Biden's political instincts no matter how many times he's proven right.
All progressive paths to fixing our democracy run through Congress. There is no solution without it. Biden knows this, and as ever, has his eye on the ball. He's not ignoring the problems; he's assembling the toolkit to deal with them.
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