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24 Jun, 7 tweets, 3 min read
We are at another “off ramp” from MAGA moment for the GOP.

Are Governors and leaders of low vaccine states just going to let their constituents die without waging a major effort to save them? (1/x)
The low vaccine states have the money, the know how and the backing of the US government to ensure that COVID doesn't ravage their communities.

A failure to take dramatic action now isn't conservative - it's barbaric, medieval, perhaps even criminal.

Proof of vaccination is required for schools and camps all across the country. There is nothing "woke" or anti-freedom about this.

Freedom in fact comes from not being ravaged by disease - what public health, modern medicine all about (3/x).

What continues to just stun me is the willingness of sophisticated Republican/Party of Reagan leaders to go along with ideas/memes/policies which they know have been championed by Putin, and which were designed to harm the US (4/x).

cbsnews.com/news/anti-vax-…
Perhaps we need to view Biden's intense desire to get an infrastructure deal thru this "off ramp" de-radicalization lens - simply it is an urgent national priority to find ways for GOP to keep taking off ramps from MAGA lunacy (5/x).

simon-rosenberg.medium.com/republicans-ha…
Having Dems take steps to help GOP off ramp from MAGA of course are implicitly risky - for we risk allowing normalization at these early stages of behavior/beliefs which remain radical, extreme.

This @ThePlumLineGS piece discusses the challenge (6/x).

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Simple reality is that the GOP is not doing its part to make America great, and hasn't for a long time.

In our presentation "With Democrats" we talk at length about the GOP's failure to come up w/a constructive politics after end of the Cold War.
ndn.org/WithDemocrats

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Simon Rosenberg Profile picture
22 Jun
Just finished an interview with the great @NormOrnstein. It was one of the most thorough and compelling discussions I've heard about the threat a radicalized GOP pose to our democracy.

It is very much worth your time. You can find it below.

ndn.org/talks-Norm-Orn…
Here's a writeup of our interview today with @NormOrnstein from @ThePlumLineGS and @brianbeutler.

Norm's ideas for reforming the filibuster are very very good ones, and deserve more attention.

Thought this was a really interesting part of my talk w/@NormOrnstein today. Big rethink is needed for way media uses today's ideological terms - progressive, liberal, conservative.....GOP clearly no longer a conservative party. What words to use?

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17 Jun
So, I've built a presentation around the graph below.

It tells a story about American politics since the end of the Cold War.

The story is about a modern, effective Democratic Party which has repeatedly made things better; and a GOP which has failed to do its part. (1/x)
This story

Dem = modern, successful
GOP = reactionary, failed

Needs to be better understood by all, and repeated, and repeated again.

Come watch this presentation - June 18, 25 and July 16, 30.

It will change you understanding of US politics. (2/x)

ndn.org/WithDemocrats
The data is this presentation is also critical we think to helping Dems win the big economic argument this year.

Biden has created more jobs in 4 months than the last 3 GOP Presidents over 16 years.

Clinton Obama = 34m jobs
Bushes Trump = 2m jobs

(3/x)
ndn.org/biden-more-job…
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15 Jun
This piece from @ThePlumLineGS gets at something important - Ds cannot repeat the mistake of 2009, and must spend a great deal of time and money making clear to voters how what we've done has made the recovery happen.

We need to get much louder about our economic achievements.
I get a bit more into the "Dems need to get louder about economic achievements" strategy here.

simon-rosenberg.medium.com/a-summer-to-do…
Let me give you an example of getting louder on the economy -

Joe Biden has created more jobs in 4 months than the last three Republican Presidents did in 16 years.

ndn.org/biden-more-job…
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7 Jun
Have appreciated the interest in our new econ graph below, one that shows that in just 4 months Biden has already seen more jobs created on his watch than the last 3 GOP Presidents combined, over 16 years.

So gonna share a few more graphs.....(1/x)

Here's one showing booming stock market gains under Clinton and Obama, only modest/zero gains under recent GOP Presidents (2/x). Using the Dow here.
Here's one showing average job gains per month. Note that over 16 years GOP Presidents AVERAGED only 10,000 jobs created per month, 120k per year.

Biden is averaging averaging 500k a month, which = 4-5 years of recent GOP per month (3/x).
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3 Jun
This point is critical, and needs to be fleshed out by center-left commentators.

Despite repeatedly winning more votes in national elections small state bias makes it hard for Dems to wield Congressional power; when they do they have to get to 60 (1/x).

Rs exploitation of some of our democracy's design flaws has meant despite regularly losing popular vote GOP has been able to block sensible progress on climate, infrastructure, guns, immigration, etc.

Opportunity costs for US so immense (2/x).

ndn.org/blog/2021/05/e…
Critical that we establish GOP's radicalization extends to entire governing agenda - taxes, climate, infrastructure, guns, COVID, race, immigration - not just democracy.

Their views are all extreme, and have been holding nation back for decades. (3/x).

ndn.org/learning-talk-…
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27 May
Been enjoying the weekly @YouGov/@TheEconomist. A thread with some interesting data from this week's poll:

docs.cdn.yougov.com/pxuc7wjg52/eco… (1/x)
Right track/wrong track

18-29 46%-38% incredible
30-44 55%-31% more incredible
45-64 33%-58%
65+ 41%-54%
Total 43%-47%

(2/x)
State of economy is poor 25%
Personal finances worse than year ago 25%
Unhappy in job 7%

Six months from now more jobs 35%
Six months from now less jobs 20%

Country is feeling the recovery.

(3/x)
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