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14 Jun, 5 tweets, 3 min read
absolutely loving watching the Democratic Party shills dutifully cheer the (false) news Biden is admitting Ukraine to NATO, something that, if true, would instantly place us at war with Russia
Hey, @anitaM86 @jkfecke @reesetheone1 @chris_notcapn, since Ukraine is not, in fact, being admitted to NATO, do you still think Biden should admit the country, as you tweeted excitedly mere minutes ago? Or has your view mysteriously shifted to align with his?
Incredible. Anita still believes Ukraine is joining NATO. Jeff thinks it's bad that Ukraine isn't joining NATO, although he's relieved there won't be a nuclear war. Stay tuned for more adventures in cognitive dissonance!
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Yes, @AnitaM86, I would tell Zelensky that Ukraine is not in NATO

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14 Jun
Pure fantasy from Bill Scher: not only is the hope of bipartisan dealmaking an absurd delusion, but the notion that voters will reward Democrats for staying focused on “helping Americans” isn’t remotely borne out by history
Every single effing time it’s the same: Democrats get walloped, they put their thinking caps on, and they go “Ah ha! Voters just didn’t realize we were serious about governance!” If the party were a person the repetition of the same thought process would be diagnosable by now
Like, is there an election within living memory where Democrats didn’t position themselves as the party of “serious boring policy that helps real Americans”? And yet they’ve lost many of those elections. So maaaybe that’s not the key to winning anything? Have we considered this?
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14 Jun
A great way to square the centrist view that moderate Dems focus well on kitchen-table economic policy, and the leftist view that this can’t be true because moderate Dems frequently lose, is to realize talking about the economy isn’t very good politics.
Moderates are drawn to the idea that economic issues are the best focus for political campaigns because it’s safe and polls well; leftists are drawn to it because of their deep embedded belief that everything is an expression of economic relations; they’re both dumb and wrong
You know what group is correct about the terrain on which politics is best fought? Not the left and not the Dem moderates, caught in a cycle of perpetual erosion. THE GOP. Their advances have been achieved on a cultural and rhetorical battlefield where liberals won’t even engage.
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6 Jun
Yes well it does rather complicate things when the first amendment is explicitly adopted as a rallying cry by fascist bent on murder
What I hate about this piece is that there is zero attempt to reckon with the idea that the political context and tradeoffs of free speech absolutism have changed, and that this might raise thorny questions with no easy answers. Instead it’s just holier-than-thou lecturing
And the people doing the lecturing? Invariably? White men, completely insulated from the potentially mortal consequences of playing into the hands of people like the Charlottesville marchers, and whose views on the issue haven't evolved one iota since college, I'm sure
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6 Jun
During Trump’s presidency, we were told that oversight was unpopular and we needed to focus on kitchen-table policy, and accountability would come after. Now that it’s done, we’re told we have to focus on legislating and returning to normalcy.

When will there be accountability?
Virtually everyone conceded that a lack of accountability for prior GOP misdeeds was a major component of how we got Trump, but here we are, making exactly the same mistake, telling ourselves “This time it’s different, this time it makes sense.”
There’s no Jan. 6 investigation. There’s no executive branch audit. Trump tried to overthrow the US government, and Democrats are STILL sitting around trying to decide whether this stuff is too much of a distraction to make a big deal about. What will it take??
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2 Jun
bizarre moment where Trump-as-an-idea is an object of profound talismanic importance for tens of millions of increasingly rabid Americans, while Trump-as-a-man is a tiny figure whose pronouncements are ignored and forgotten
dude is a martyr but he's not dead, he's just in Mar-a-Lago
honestly I'd argue this has kind of always been the case. experienced political observers have never understood Trump or Trumpism and have imputed a lot of weight to his specific statements (i.e. endorsements), but his following is affective, not hanging on to his every last word
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2 Jun
don't authoritarians, which are existential threats to the nation, also reliably accuse their opponents of being existential threats to the nation, inevitably creating this exact dynamic?

what is the point of this tweet?
MAYBE it's true that if you make no attempt to evaluate the substance of either party's view or the values of their leaders, and just focus on their tone in the vaguest possible way, they sound sort of similar

but why would anyone adopt such a lobotomized approach to politics
(I don't even think this is true, really - Dem leaders and supporters are notably less histrionic than GOP leaders and supporters, although I'd argue that's a dangerous error)
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