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16 Sep, 7 tweets, 3 min read
As we’ve been saying it’s important that Democrats learn how to make the GOP’s radicalization a kitchen table issue. Seen a lot of progress in this regard in recent weeks. Important political development here in the US. washingtonpost.com/politics/democ…
Here’s a recent essay where I lay out why leaning into the GOP’s dangerous radicalization has to be central to who Dems are now. It’s part of how we defend our democracy.

ndn.org/blog/2021/09/m…
And I think it sets up the essential 2022 contrast - Dems taking pragmatic steps to tackle the big challenges we face - COVID, economy for all, climate, health care, immigration - and Rs going bat shit crazy, not doing their part.

Pragmatism vs extremism.
ndn.org/blog/2021/05/e…
Pragmatism, progress vs extremism….

But the first step in that framing is to establish clearly what we are doing - COVID, economy for all, climate, health care, immigration.

That is job for Dems now - firmly establish the dos, the agenda, who we are.

ndn.org/fall-to-do-list
Extremist you say?

About to have another reminder of it all this weekend.
And establishing radicalization creates an opening to recast so much of what GOP is now that way.

This is a big strategic opening, and Dems must seize it.
Tried to get all of this into a new essay on @medium.....

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2 Sep
It's one thing to lose Roe. It's another to lose it to this unhinged Texas law, which encourages a form of vigilantism.

This Court has brought great shame on itself. It looks ridiculous to the civilized world. Madness, extremism is taking hold in US.

Agree with others who trace back the unmooring of the GOP in part to the Court's insane ruling blocking the counting of votes in Florida in 2000, which gave the WH to Bush.

Rs learned they could seize power through the Courts, and a generation of corrupt jurists followed.
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett all joined the Court under circumstances which many just men and women would have rejected.

McConnell's corrupt manipulation of the process has, unfortunately, left the US w/questions about this Court's legitimacy, integrity, purpose.
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2 Sep
We still don’t have the right vocabulary and words to describe what the Republican Party had become.
The word I keep coming back to is barbaric. There is something pre-modern about what we are seeing, a reliance on violence, extremism and anti-science thinking that isn't captured by solely by the words authoritarian or fascist.
What I am getting at here is that we have to settle on how to describe the post-GOP/MAGA variant of right wing politics we are seeing now. We can't use many words - we have to settle on just a few to make this work. And people have to understand them, regular people.
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28 Aug
Big part of the Ida’s story - emergency response in a full blown pandemic with lots unvaxxed people. Let’s hope for the best, keep first responders, medical community in our thoughts. Tough stuff.
The region Ida is about to strike is gripped by a collective madness right now, one pushed and manipulated by venal politicians.
Gulf Coast region has very sophisticated, mature emergency response culture.

It’s why the region’s surrender to COVID is so extraordinary, and could have only happened through dramatic intervention by Republican political leaders.
tallahassee.com/story/news/pol…
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21 Aug
What's next for Biden and the Dems?

Two memos from me this week.

First, focus on defeating COVID, tackling climate change, re-framing immigration debate, growing the economy/winning the future and defending democracy.

ndn.org/some-thoughts-…
Next, concerns about delta are rising, as is the public's willingness to take more aggressive steps to fight the virus.

Pres Biden should seize the moment, and launch a stepped campaign to defeat COVID here and everywhere. It remains job #1 for @POTUS.

simon-rosenberg.medium.com/a-stronger-res…
As I write in the 1st piece, @POTUS is trying to move us beyond an era of expensive, failed wars, refocusing our politics around new, emergent challenges - climate, COVID, defending democracy, Russia/China, cyber and building back better here at home.

ndn.org/some-thoughts-…
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18 Aug
With his ratings on COVID dropping Biden would be wise to be seen as being far more aggressive advocating for the super majority who are getting vaccinated, masking and acting responsibly.
Think it would be wise for the President to do a prime time address about COVID, review the progress that has been made, challenge us to keep working hard together to win the battle, outline the plan ahead.

ndn.org/blog/2021/08/b…
The President needs to lean into the fight against COVID. Make it clear it is his #1 priority. Escalate the global battle, renew US soft power, counter fall of Kabul images.

It's what the American people elected him to do, and the work isn't finished.

ndn.org/blog/2021/07/d…
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16 Aug
Perhaps this needs to be seen as another victory in Putin’s battle against the West, enabled and accelerated by his orange haired partner in the White House.
This is an incredible video. Please watch, share.

The disgraced former President makes clear that Afghanistan was so far gone due to his actions that there was no way for Biden “to stop the process.”

Think this shows where a great deal of the responsibility lies.
Trump and Pompeo gave the green light to the Taliban without even involving the Afghan government in their talks. Trump wanted them at Camp David. Russia was advising the Taliban through all this. Russia’s embassy in Kabul is being guarded by the Taliban today.
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