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19 Mar, 4 tweets, 5 min read
Here's my response to @JDVance1's awful take on the migrant influx. This has created very hard moral and policy dilemmas. But Vance doesn't seriously engage them at all. Instead he hides behind phony anti-woke posturing to elide them. You deserve better:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
@JDVance1 I say children and teens should not be turned back into Mexico. Does JD Vance think they *should* be?

He doesn't say. Instead he anticipates that critics of his position will only say he's "racist." That relieves him of engaging with such complexities:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
@JDVance1 I say it's unacceptable to threaten desperate people with cruel, degrading and dangerous outcomes to deter them from exercising their legal right to apply for asylum.

Trump's policies did those things. Does Vance think that's acceptable? He doesn't say:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
@JDVance1 Does JD Vance think we should close our border to asylum seeking entirely? Expel all undocumented immigrants already here?

He doesn't say.

These problems are hard. I say we should try to solve them:

(w/@Noahpinion, @onesarahjones, @ryanlcooper)

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

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18 Mar
A funny thing is happening in US politics right now. Biden and Dems are working with the left far more smoothly than expected. And it's working: It's producing good, ambitious policy that's popular. Which blows up one of Trumpism's biggest lies. New piece:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Key development: Biden and Dems are working with the left, while accepting that the GOP has cut itself out of the conversation entirely about how to address our big challenges.

A Politico report on talks between @WHCOS and @RepJayapal tells the story:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
@WHCOS @RepJayapal A big irony:

The Trump/GOP lie of 2020 was that Biden and Dems would prove captive to the socialist left, which would drive the country into chaos and "depression."

Yet by working together, the Dem center-left alliance is what's burying this falsehood:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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16 Mar
The story the GOP is telling about "Biden's border crisis" is nonsense, and the media has gone off the rails in echoing it. The reality is Biden is cleaning up Trump's disastrous mess, which was far worse for our country than the status quo. New piece:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
You can read endless headlines screaming about a "border crisis."

The assumption here is that under Trump, there wasn't a crisis.

But there was a crisis under Trump. It was worse for the migrants, worse for the rule of law and worse for our country:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
The child migrant situation is terrible. But it's due to Biden reversing a Trump policy that *should* be reversed: The public health restriction.

Not letting kids in due to covid is not a long term solution from a humanitarian or rule of law perspective:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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15 Mar
Biden has the potential to be a transformative president. But a lot can go wrong -- especially if Biden and Dems blink on voting rights and the filibuster.

I had a great talk with @rortybomb about the promise and peril of this moment. He went really big:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
@rortybomb "A universal program can create a coalition that will come to defend it."

Fascinating stuff from @rortybomb comparing the Biden bill's child allowance to the eight-hour-day movement and World War II daycare for women who worked in defense production:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
@rortybomb The Great Depression was the "shattering event" that led to the New Deal, writes @rortybomb.

I asked him whether coronavirus can serve as a similar shattering event leading to genuine transformation now.

His answer was interesting:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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12 Mar
No analysis of GOP strategy for the next two years is complete if it doesn't mention the central role of voter suppression and anti-majoritarian tactics. With Dems on the cusp of transformative victories, those tactics are key to GOP survival. New piece:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
It's very possible that Biden and Dems -- with the participation of zero Republicans -- will preside over the defeat of the pandemic that traumatized the nation for a year, while implementing the most transformative social policy since the Great Society:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
On top of all this, Republicans are sinking deeper into cancel culture and Dr. Seuss mania.

As @DamonLinker notes, Biden and elected Dems are largely not taking the bait, instead staying focused on working to make people's lives better:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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9 Mar
The new voter suppression effort in Georgia is a horror. It's telling that this comes in the very state that made Biden's rescue bill possible. Indeed, that bill's popularity is itself making anti-majoritarian tactics more urgent for the GOP. My latest:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Biden’s bill could boost the income of the poorest fifth by 20%, help millions save on health care and cut child poverty in half. Yet Republicans are off spinning wild tales about checks going to terrorists.

They simply aren't part of the conversation:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
“Collectively, these bills represent the most sustained effort to roll back access to the ballot in Georgia since the Jim Crow era.”

@AriBerman. It's highly significant that this is happening in the state that made the relief bill possible:

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8 Mar
How do GOP elites keep getting away with screwing their own constituents? A great new analysis from @Jacob_S_Hacker and colleagues bring deep context to this question. Cultural resentments/pro-rural electoral bias protect GOP lawmakers from accountability:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
@Jacob_S_Hacker “Red America is falling farther behind, but politicians who represent it at all levels have gotten more unified on an economic agenda that hurts the people who live there."

@Jacob_S_Hacker. Great stuff tracing this regional divergence back over decades:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
@Jacob_S_Hacker What's notable here is that this is an analysis of the *political economy* of Red America.

The authors develop an important concept of "low road states," that is, Republican states with weak unions, low wages, and underfunded public goods:

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