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22 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
It is irresponsible for journalists not to lede with recent GOP history & McConnell’s explicit claim that his caucus will seek to derail any major Biden proposal. There is no reason to highlight their supposed “skepticism,” which suggests good faith. /1 washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021…
Treating the GOP as if their recent history of full-throttled rejectionism wasn’t their guiding principle. /2
Live action shot of the coverage of the Republican Party skeptically "balking" at Biden's infrastructure proposal. /3
It's not like McConnell was subtle about his mission. Every story about GOP "skepticism" about Biden initiatives should include this, rather than pretending they are acting in good faith./4
wsj.com/articles/mccon…

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21 May
This is an iteration of a backlash impulse that dates to the Reconstruction era. /1
The idea that time is running out--that it was always, as I showed in my book, FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY, "five minutes to midnight"--is central to the existential framing of all backlashes. /2
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So too was the idea that the rule of law was provisional, that certain people were not bound by its strictures. As one critic of the "recent revolutionary acts of Congress" said in 1868, they would "provoke on the part of those immediately affected by them violent resistance."/3
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20 May
This piece only hints at what might have been Moynihan's most lasting legacy: his pronouncement that the Reagan-era GOP had become the "party of ideas."/1 nytimes.com/2021/05/15/boo…
I wrote a piece for @BostonReview about Moynihan's central role in popularizing this idea. /2
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11 May
So much of the reporting not only assumes good faith on the part of Republicans, it ignores McConnell’s explicit policy of rejecting any major Biden initiative (as the GOP did with Obama), no matter how necessary or popular. The faux naiveté is maddening. /1
Here’s a good example: a passage taking as fact “the fiscal austerity….emerging within her own [Capito’s] party.” As Joe Biden might say, “Come on, Man!” /2
And then there is this passage, in which Capito’s complete inversion of recent history is quoted at length, with no context whatsoever—say about how Obama wasted six months for Republican moderates to sign onto the ACA which they, predictably, rejected as a bloc. /3
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6 May
Throughout the Trump presidency, it wasn’t just his allies but the media that obsessively highlighted Trump’s mood and anger level. /1 washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Here’s an example about Trump being angry after losing the election. /2
When this piece came out, I tweeted that I hoped it would be the last article I would ever have to read about Trump’s mood. Was I ever wrong./3
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5 May
I find the zero-sum framing in the first two paragraphs of this column problematic. To say that many white workers felt that they "were left face alone the brunt of the long process of deindustrialization" is not to say that this is true./1 nytimes.com/2021/05/05/opi…
It is doubtless the case that "many white Americans — who had taken their own centrality for granted — felt that they were being shouldered aside." But many other groups also bore the brunt of de-industrialization.../2
particularly since they had, until recently, been excluded from well-paying, unionized manufacturing jobs and began to gain a foothold just as that sector began, for a variety of reasons, to implode./ 3
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2 May
I question the framing and significant omissions in this profile of Kristi Noem, which doesn't even mention the misleading, deceitful story she told about the "death tax" that led to her rise to national prominence./1
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Her story about how the estate tax adversely affected her family did not add up, although she and others continue to refer to it as justification for eliminating it./2
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Here's a portion of 2019 article by Noem in which she refers to to the impact of the "death tax" on her family./3
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