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25 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Important, on the money piece by @ThePlumlineGS. McConnell has revealed himself to be who we knew he was. He will obstruct. Dems must, to begin with, break the current logjam with a move against his procedural filibuster. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
In related news, if Dems don't stand up to McConnell now, they will also reveal they are who we feared they were-undisciplined & unserious. If it takes Biden sitting down with Manchin & Sinema & reading them the riot act, then so be it. Otherwise the '22 election loss starts now.
Make no mistake, capitulation to McConnell now (and capitulations to DINOs like Manchin and Sinema) would be a disaster. If you thought it would take more than a week to get to the first genuine political crisis of the Biden presidency, you miscalculated.
This has taken a more positive turn...and credit to those who arranged that and avoided a deeper crisis at the moment. But the core message remains...managing the Senate with an obstructionist GOP is going to take real toughness and discipline.

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26 Jan
Americans never heard Trump's call with Ukraine. Many don't know where Ukraine is or why it's relevant. But everyone saw Trump prepare his big lie, unleash his coup attempt, incite the crowd, do nothing when they attacked. His guilt & the seriousness of his crime are clear.
He incited an insurrection against the United States. About this history will have no doubt. The only question is whether the GOP has become so corrupt and negligent in their duty to the Constitution that they will fail to hold him accountable.
Actually, that's probably a bit naive. We know the truth. They are going to let him skate on this. And then they are going to double down on his lies and divisiveness. In other words, they are going to send a message that the coup attempt was ok and that in fact, it is on going.
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19 Jan
Well, here we are, time for the final Trump Administration overall awfulness rankings, combining rankings for flawed character, odious personality and damage done to the country. This is just for Administration members and leaves out Congress, which is full of awful people too.
20. The Lawyers (Rudy & all the other enablers)
19. Mark Meadows
18. Melania Trump
17. The (Many) Crooks in the Cabinet
16. John Kelly
15. Betsy DeVos
14. Jeff Sessions (& Matthew Whitaker)
13. Steve Mnuchin
12. Peter Navarro
11. Richard Grenell
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15 Jan
Trumpism is no more a thing than Justin Bieberism. It's a fad. 5 years ago there was no Trumpist majority in the GOP. What's enduring is the GOP formula of exploiting the racism/nationalism of rural/suburban Americans to provide political fuel for policies that benefit the rich.
That formula--populism in the service of corporatism--has been with us for ages, was reshaped for the modern age under Reagan and has driven both the widening economic and political divides in America ever since. It will long survive Trump.
Trump weaponized it-fanning the flames of social division so that he could do even morefor a smaller & smaller percentage of the population. The reality was, he has not be very good at it. While he has GOP support, his popularity in polls has lagged all other recent presidents.
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14 Jan
2 impeachments sounds bad. But Trump's getting off light. There are legitimate reasons he could have been impeached at least 7 times...
1. Violation of campaign finance laws (M. Cohen case)
2. Violation of campaign finance laws/collaboration w/foreign intel service (Russia)
3. Obstruction of justice (see Mueller)
4. Corruption, self-dealing, violation of emoluments clause
5. Gross mismanagment, corruption associated with the COVID outbreak
6. Ukraine bribery scandal (impeachment 1)
7. Inciting insurrection (impeachment 2)
There are of course many things we don't know that could also be impeachable from security violations (with Putin and others), other instances of seeking foreign help w/election plans, tax fraud, other forms of corruption.
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12 Jan
Things the GOP did not find "divisive": Launching an insurrection against the US government, seeking to disenfranchise 81 million Americans, seeking to negate the votes of entire states, seeking to negate the votes of African Americans, attacking the Capitol...
...killing Capitol police officers, inciting a riots that claimed five lies, participating in the largest act of domestic terrorism in US history, hunting down Congresspeople in the halls of Congress, supporting and defending white supremacists...
...supporting and defending Neo-Nazis, turning US federal force against peaceful demonstrators across the country, calling Mexicans rapists, discriminating against Muslims, putting children in cages, ending protections for children born innocently in the United States...
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12 Jan
@JonathanTurley suggests the founders would not react so quickly against a president who led an insurrection. Washington led an army of 13,000 people against a small group of farmers who wouldn't pay their taxes on whiskey.
One founder actually did lead an insurrection. His name was Aaron Burr. He was arrested and charged with treason. He walked on technical reasons and was already out of office so impeachment was not the right option, but he ended up in exile for years afterward.
(Beautifully, while in exile Burr lived in a house on Craven Street in London.) Turley also says that Trump's incitement to insurrection was protected speech. This is beyond ludicrous and shows a lack of understanding of the law that would get him kicked out of any law school.
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