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26 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"The important point in all of this is that there are no shortcuts."

@philipaklein says what I was saying the other day. The GOP will move on from Trump the moment its voters do, and not a second sooner. That's the reality, and people need to accept it. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/republ…
"In all likelihood, anti-Trump conservatives are never going to have the satisfaction of that theoretical post-Trump candidate being anti-Trump."

Another reality the NeverTrump crowd is going to have to swallow. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/republ…
"The reality is that the only way that the Republican Party will move beyond Trump is if another candidate comes along who is able to win with a different coalition."

I think another R could win with a fairly similar though not identical coalition. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/republ…
Even if another R wins with a coalition like Trump's, by definition the party will have moved on since he'll no longer be president and the new guy will be. Unless we're talking about Trump having a similar role and status in the GOP as Reagan once did.

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You have to admire the skill with which this dishonest hack turns his personal grudge against Ron DeSantis into a one-man circle jerk for Larry Hogan while lying about what's going on in the Republican Party. Hogan represents no faction of the GOP. This battle doesn't exist.
DeSantis v. Hogan is a battle the same way Alabama vs. a D-III team is. They're both football teams and they're both on the same field, and that's where the similarity ends. news.yahoo.com/in-de-santis-v…
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The death of expertise was a suicide.
"The Republican Party, to take a phrase from the early Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, should now be deposited where it belongs: in the 'dustbin of history.'"

Siri, show me how a first-past-the-post single-member district electoral system works. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
If you spend all your time waving your expertise around and boasting about how big it is, shouldn't you, you know, actually know what you're talking about? Because whatever the GOP is, "A dying party" it's not. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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It was this universe, in fact.
Meant to QT this in the previous tweet.
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"The Shining Hour," a 1938 drama starring Joan Crawford as a showgirl who marries rich farmer Melvyn Douglas, only to fall in love with his brother, Robert Young, who's married to Margaret Sullavan, has excellent acting, especially from the female leads, but is otherwise so-so.
The main problem with "The Shining Hour" is that Fay Bainter as Douglas and Young's older sister, who resents Crawford before they ever meet and spends the movie trying to drive her away, is just too one-dimensional and implausible. I lay the blame squarely on the script.
Sullavan plays another of her noble, self-sacrificing types, but she was great at it. Frank Borzage, who directed "The Shining Hour," got some of her and Robert Young's best work. He was also their director on the excellent "Three Comrades" (1938) and "The Mortal Storm" (1940).
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"'He's the first guy taking on the grassroots activists in his own party in his own state,' said Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist who worked to defeat Trump last year."

A Lincoln Projector getting aroused by Ben Sasse's video is all you need to know. politico.com/news/2021/02/0…
"If the GOP’s fervor for the former president fades to any degree, Sasse will be better positioned than anyone to capitalize."

Imagine being so bad at understanding politics that you think Ben Sasse is what GOP voters will be craving in 2024. politico.com/news/2021/02/0…
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"The Devil Is a Sissy" (1936) is a prototypical 1930s MGM comedy-drama, but with one difference: the main characters are kids. And not just any kids, but three of the most successful child stars in history: Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, and Jackie Cooper.
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Bartholomew is ostensibly the main character, and the film's structure is provided by the stuff about his adjusting to his new life and school, ingratiating himself with the gang, and so forth. Typical kid stuff. But as in a lot of 1930s MGM fare, with some heavier elements, too.
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