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3 Nov, 5 tweets, 4 min read
I confess to being shocked and unsettled at how quickly the Dem coalition fractured after ousting Trump. This leads to an ugly possibility: For the third time, Dems may have only a two-year window to clean up a big national mess left by GOP rule.

My wrap:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Awful but true:

Republicans appear to be benefiting from changes Trump inflicted on our politics (educational polarization) without paying any price for his legacy of white nationalism, mass covid death, or trying to overthrow democracy.

w/@EricLevitz

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Democrats need a better response on CRT. They need to more frontally engage genuine parental concerns about curricula. But this cannot entail backing off holding Republicans accountable for the conflict and chaos their race-baiting demagogy has unleashed:

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“We’re going to see an army of mini-Youngkins in 2022 running the parental control playbook to tap into anxiety over local schools. Voters are anxious, including over schools — and every Dem candidate needs a plan to address that."

Dem strategist, to me:

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This will likely be the third time that Democrats have only a two-year window to clean up an epic mess left behind by GOP rule.

It's hard to see how this is tenable when it comes to achieving lasting progressive change or averting climate catastrophe:

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1 Nov
NEWS:

Congressional Dems from Florida are ratcheting up pressure on the University of Florida to explain and reverse its decision to ban professors from testifying against the state's voting law.

Hearings are a possibility.

That and more in my latest:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
I asked the University of Florida to detail its rationale. A spox emailed me a new explanation.

It's not persuasive. And one of the professors tells me he repeatedly testified against the state of Florida in the past with the university's approval:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Now @RepDWStweets tells me she and other Florida Dems are signing a letter calling on the university to explain and reverse its decision.

She had a private talk with the university president. He couldn't explain.

Hearings are possible, she suggests:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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28 Oct
The White House's new framework is out:

*$555 billion on climate
*CTC extended a year
*Corporate and global min tax
*Universal pre-K
*Child care funding
*Expanded ACA subsidies, including Medicaid in red states

Tons of new reporting/analysis here:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
A few key nuggets. On taxes, we lost billionaires tax and hikes in corporate/top income rates.

BUT:

New surcharge on $5 million and up
Corporate/global minimum tax
Stock buyback tax
IRS/tax cheats

And we may be able to surmise Sinema might be on board:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
An important point:

Progressives are still insisting on a reconciliation bill text before any vote on infrastructure, a senior Dem aide tells me.

Predicts up to 50 progressives could vote no if leadership tries to hold an infrastructure vote:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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27 Oct
Elon Musk's absurd opposition to the billionaires tax shows exactly why we need it. Billionaires like him have benefited from policy choices that helped them build huge fortunes. One is the privileging of wealth, which this new tax would target. My latest:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
The billionaires tax is being widely treated as just a stopgap revenue raiser. But this is all wrong. It would fix flaws in the tax code that are themselves glaring problems. This would have real benefits beyond revenues.

I went through the details here:

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Musk says with billionaires tax, govt will blow revenues, and once they "run out" they will "come for you."

But Musk benefited hugely from govt subsidies.

Investing in entrepreneurs like Musk = GOOD AND VISIONARY.

Investing in children = BAD TAKING:

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26 Oct
Awful: Manchin is again shrinking climate provisions. This could weaken US leadership at the global climate conference. This, even as a new AP poll finds 55% of Americans support action. The malapportioned Senate is the bane of our existence. My latest:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
A new quote from Manchin captures why we're in trouble.

"I’m totally out of sync with 48 other Democrats,” he said. "I’m just trying to survive in a very, very divided Congress in a very divided country."

This seems harmless. But it isn't.

Here's why.

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Yes, Manchin is smack in the middle of a "divided Congress."

But he is NOT smack in the middle of our "divided country."

He is both right of center of public opinion *and* able to decide all alone what the majority party passes.

That's the problem:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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25 Oct
Poor JD Vance. He' getting hammered by $1 million in ads reviving his past attacks on Trump. Vance is desperately atoning by claiming to be the real heir to Trump's populist legacy, as if GOP voters care more about that than about Trump himself. My latest:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
JD Vance is running a campaign saturated in performative anti-cosmopolitan posturing and demagoguery about cultural liberalism and critical race theory.

He wants to tax corporations for standing up for the voting rights of African Americans.

Populism!

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
While JD Vance and right wing populists demagogue about CRT and woke globalist corporations, Dems are on verge of:

*delivering big boost to millions of struggling red state families

*cracking down on elite tax cheats and multinational tax avoidance

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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22 Oct
In last 24 hours:

* We learn Kevin McCarthy is using Sopranos-style threats against Liz Cheney amid 1/6 probe

* Virtually every House GOPer votes to protect 1/6 architect Bannon

How far from here to a GOP House subverting the 2024 election?

My latest:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
One of Kevin McCarthy's henchmen delivered a threat about Liz Cheney that would shock a Sopranos scriptwriter.

McCarthy also threatened private companies that comply with the 1/6 committee.

"This is how democracies get into trouble," @dziblatt tells me:

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@dziblatt For governments to function amid deep disagreements between major players, they evolve shared understandings.

For instance, executive privilege claims against oversight typically result in negotiated settlements.

Trump/Bannon are destroying this norm:

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