1/ Trump is an ongoing political reality. His imitators and acolytes will try to launder Trumpism and racial nationalism with less overt insanity and more Ivy League gloss.
If you lack the strategic vision and historic context to understand Trump will be the GOP nominee…🤷♂️
If you lack the strategic vision and historic context to understand Trump will be the GOP nominee…🤷♂️
2/ The question you have to ask yourself is simple: do you want to leverage trumps destructive jealousy against his successors to weaken them for 2028 and beyond?
or, if Trump drops dead of a heart attack or struck by a meteor do you want a bloody, divided, brutal primary?
or, if Trump drops dead of a heart attack or struck by a meteor do you want a bloody, divided, brutal primary?
3/ further, given the unbelievable loyalty he controls with the base Republican voters, anything that divides them from the rest of the party is a benefit to pro democracy forces.
A lot of the complaints about the strategy from dollar store Sun Tzu types rests on delusion.
A lot of the complaints about the strategy from dollar store Sun Tzu types rests on delusion.
4/ The conceit of some elevated fight against Trumpism, based on decency or policy is a fool‘s errand. Authoritarian‘s attack institutions across the spectrum and opportunistically corrode any weak spot.
5/ I’ve been in the fight against Trump for six years now. Relentlessly. Tirelessly. I’ve learned that the other side of this fight never sleeps. Never gives up. Never feels a moment of shame or remorse or regret.
importantly, they never miss an opportunity to attack delusion.
importantly, they never miss an opportunity to attack delusion.
6/ The analogy isn’t as simple as just cutting the head off a snake. It’s a vertically integrated power structure oh that is rapidly metastasized across the entire former conservative movement.
if you can’t or won’t understand that you have to attack the entire hydra…
if you can’t or won’t understand that you have to attack the entire hydra…
7/… with the same kind of multivariate attacks they use to both break the Democratic Party, and democracy writ large, then you’re not really in the fight, are you?
8/ The long road ahead will offer no shortcuts. There will be no smooth reset to the old ways of politics on either side of the equation.
if you dislike blunt truth, there’s plenty of pablum and happy talk out there for you.
End.
if you dislike blunt truth, there’s plenty of pablum and happy talk out there for you.
End.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
