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8 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Here’s the thing: ultimately, Trump WILL reverse his statement. It’s inevitable. He always does. The question is whether we remove him from office in the meantime.
He walked back his Charlottesville statement over and over, he even claimed the Access Hollywood video was somehow a hoax. The gravity of his ego is irresistible which is why you can’t ever beat him by forcing him to concede defeat in any fashion.
I TOLD YOU
Stop delaying! Stop dithering!

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9 Jan
Reporters and writers who care about understanding the Trump era need to pay a lot closer attention to the role of self-imposed Democratic helplessness. There's a really stunning example of it going on right now. In the sweep of history it's minor but it's incredibly revealing.
If you urge Democrats to impeach before Monday, you'll probably get a bunch of responses shouting at you about the House rules, claiming Dems are moving as fast as possible and that it's impossible to reconvene before then. ImageImage
These claims appear to be false - there are ways to end the House's recess. Besides, it's strange to claim the Dems are moving with urgency when Pelosi is the one who recessed the House in the first place.

But what's even stranger than these claims is where they're coming from.
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8 Jan
No. It doesn't matter if the written text of the articles "make the case as strongly as possible" because the entire body that will be voting on those articles fled that case on foot just 48 hours ago.
Democrats don't have to package it all into a narrative. There was a horrifying attack. It has consumed the nation . Everyone knows what's happening. There's something bizarre and solipsistic about thinking this hinges on how Dems present the "story."
The fixation on effectively "telling a clear story" to voters is what undermined the first impeachment, by sabotaging the real investigation in favor of a supposedly simple narrative.
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8 Jan
At first I read "the president was trying to stage a coup" as Hill rhetorically framing known events, like a pundit might.

But that's not really what Hill does. I think she might be describing publicly UNKNOWN facts.

She talks about mob incitement as Plan B. What was Plan A?
All of the public discussion has proceeded from the assumption that while this was premeditated, it was not a conspiracy. It happened in public.

But what Hill is describing is a true conspiracy by Trump - albeit one that failed - that is currently unknown to the public.
It's possible she is just extrapolating from current public information, but she really doesn't seem like someone who would mouth off in public to voice a bunch of dire speculation, does she?
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6 Jan
Okay, so, the races are close, it's probably impossible to unpack what made the difference.

HOWEVER: in almost every respect, the campaigns that Warnock and Ossoff ran were closer to what progressives counseled than what moderates have counseled.
1. They very aggressively attacked their opponents' corruption and scandalous misbehavior at every available opportunity.
2. They campaigned heavily on bold promises of direct financial aid - literally just thousands of dollars coming as a check in the mail.
3. Trump loomed large in the race. Of course, this was his own doing, rather than a strategic choice, but notable given that they underperformed Trump in November.
4. They did NOT engage in the kind of Clintonite triangulation that political wise men always advise for red states.
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5 Jan
The last four years have made it clear to me that “providing justice” is a critical, core function of government, and that includes retributive justice to the evil and corrupt. That’s why anti-corruption has a broad political appeal.
This represents a political opportunity for liberals, too. Liberals struggle to appeal to people are attracted to rules, authority, retributive justice. Anti-corruption allows liberals to sell themselves to the law-and-order crowd, to be hardliners for once.
I’ve said it for years, but there ought to be an Anti-Corruption Caucus in Congress, dedicating to finding crooks in government and business and simply making their lives as miserable as possible. The appeal goes beyond left-right.
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4 Jan
It's forgotten now, but this "ill-advised-but-not-illegal" view is the precise reaction Republicans had to the Ukraine call, even late in impeachment. Everyone gets so excited to see Republicans criticize Trump they keep falling for the same sucker lines
You can already see The Call - a president explicitly trying to overturn an election by asking for fraud! - receding into DC's infinite capacity for normalization. It's just Trump being Trump, you know? It would never succeed. The president was just speaking his mind. Etc. etc.
Seriously, there's a symbiotic relationship between the savvier-than-thou DC power class, which feels most comfortable arguing that nothing ever matters, and far-right conservativism, which leans on that instinct to argue for outrageous elite impunity
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