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20 Apr, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Some thoughts on how to think about Trump’s historic and unprecedented betrayal of the country.

It is critical we get this story right and not allow the GOP to flush any of it down the memory hole. ndn.org/blog/2021/04/u…
When we look back at the Trump era, we will wonder, again and again, how his vile courtship of Putin and other dictators wasn't enough to throw him from office.

These are statements of betrayal, betrayal of everything America ever stood and fought for.

When we look back with clear eyes at the degree of Putin's hold over Trump - and the GOP's years of covering it up - it will be hard to explain how this wasn't more central to the politics of this era.

I dive a bit more into that here: ndn.org/blog/2020/06/c…
We also have to yet to really process, properly contextualize Trump's vicious assault on the very foundations of our democracy - the postal service, the census, the election, Jan 6th - and how this betrayal has become the foundation of the post-Trump GOP.

ndn.org/blog/2020/08/t…
The descent of the GOP into an illiberal, dangerous movement - which began before Trump but was dramatically advanced under his Presidency - is a story which must be told again and again and again.

We cannot look away. The threat remains.

There is a barbarism underneath all this, an acceptance of extraordinary levels of violence (guns), death (COVID), state brutality (cops, the anti-protest laws, kids in cages).

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15 Apr
We have some good events coming up.

Tomorrow and every Friday in April at 2pm ET we will be presenting our big picture look at the success of America's center-left over past generation of US politics

With Dems is fun, uplifting - join us! (1/x).

ndn.org/WithDemocrats
Next Tuesday at 1pm ET we host two dear friends @KennethBaer @AndreiCherny for a look back at their journey with their influential intellectual journal, Democracy (@DemJournal).

NYT just called it among most influential pubs of Biden era (2/x).

ndn.org/baer-cherny
Then on 4/27 we dive into the big conversation about failures in recent Democratic polling with Jim Gerstein of the firm GBAO.

We'll be discussing the new memo 5 Dem polling firms released talking about recent polling struggles.

Important topic (3/x).

ndn.org/dem-polling-ch…
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2 Apr
Peeps, to help celebrate/promote the American Jobs Plan, we've rebooted our big presentation about how the two parties have handled the US economy over past 30+ years.

We will be showing it every Fri in April - come watch! Will leave you uplifted (1/x).
ndn.org/WithDemocrats
"The economy does better—far better—when we have Democratic presidents. In terms of job creation, median income, health care, and yep, even the stock market, the economy does better—the American people do better—under Democratic presidents" - @mtomasky

thedailybeast.com/everyone-does-…
Contrast between performance of two US political parties is very very stark:

16 yrs of Obama-Clinton = 34m jobs
16 yrs of Bush-Bush-Trump = 2m jobs
(3/x)
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Simon Rosenberg Profile picture
26 Mar
At what point do prominent lawyers and elected officials start demanding an apology from Chief Justice Roberts and a reconsideration of his gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013?

Few SCOTUS decisions have looked this foolish this swiftly. amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
Not a lawyer but the rationale behind this 2013 decision was clearly just wrong.

The Supreme Court made a huge, clear historic mistake and it needs to own up to it, work to rectify.
Hey Justice Roberts, how do you feel about all this?

Black legislator being arrested for a felony last night for knocking on the door of the Governor's office?

Or this, that this new GA bill was signed underneath a painting of a slave plantation?

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Simon Rosenberg Profile picture
22 Mar
There is a lot of good data out there about what's happening at the border right if people want to look for it.

What follows is a short thread linking to data from @pewresearch. (1/x).
"The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended nearly 100,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in February, the tenth consecutive month of increased apprehensions and a return to levels last seen in mid-2019."

Yes, 2019 levels, like when Trump was President (2/x).
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021…
If border apprehensions remain at 100k a month this year for the whole year, 2021 would be an average year in the years of heavy migrant flows, the mid 1980s through 2007 or so.

This is not new, and we have far more border agents today (3/x).

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016…
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21 Mar
If proto MAGA/right wing Republicans had not blocked the three big efforts to pass bi-partisan immigration reform in 2006, 2007 and 2013 the Biden Administration would have far more capacity to manage the challenges of Central American migration to the US.
The big messes Biden is dealing with - the economy, COVID, migrant flows from Central America, epic cyber hacks, Russian belligerence, enormous deficits, incoherent trade policy, etc - have all been made far far worse by years of GOP policy nihilism and recklessness.
Don’t think people realize there are no GOP alternatives to what Biden is trying to do - there is no GOP plan to defeat COVID, reboot the economy, manage the deficit, create a regional solution to the migrant flows, climate, infrastructure on and on.

They’ve just stopped trying.
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19 Mar
Decades of GOP failure critical to understanding the moment. What have they really done in past 30 yrs?

Blocked sensible immigration reform, prevented action on climate, infrastructure? 3 recessions, huge deficits? Revived white supremacy, appeased Putin, attacked US democracy?
Dems offered a carbon tax in 1993, immigration reform in 2005, infrastructure forever ago, universal coverage been debated for decades.....abuse of the filibuster has contributed to GOP becoming nihilistic, not connected to governing. It's a recipe for American decline.
Behind this generation long GOP abandonment of responsibility/virtue is McConnell, a deeply venal, corrupt man. He's the chief architect of the GOP's descent. Thru the abuse of the filibuster he invented a place for Rs to go which didn't include governing.
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