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3 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene aren't fringe. They're leading indicators of an increasingly violent, paranoid style of right wing politics. They claim to speak for the base. Given that GOP leaders won't censure them, are they wrong?

My latest:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Marjorie Taylor Greene and her friends have launched a creative new defense of their anti-Muslim bigotry:

The GOP base agrees with us!

Perhaps that's why GOP leaders are *not* forcefully criticizing that bigotry:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
There's real overlap between the ravings of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Steve Bannon, and some of the stuff from the "intellectual" Claremont Institute.

The thread: A leftist enemy so fiendishly monolithic and totalitarian that anything goes in response:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
And here, from @RonBrownstein, is useful confirmation of the thesis:

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2 Dec
Three days after Trump tested positive for covid, Melania, Don Jr and others in his inner circle sat in the debate hall without masks, in direct violation of protocols. They rebuffed demands to mask up.

I took a close look at the chronology. It's damning:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
A crucial detail:

Meadows told everyone around Trump to treat him as "positive" on covid, while concealing this publicly.

That makes it even more damning that his family sat in the debate hall maskless.

Reporters witnessed this at the time. Receipts:

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At the time, the Commission on Presidential Debates complained that the Trump family had violated protocol.

But nothing was done, even as they flaunted those rules before a national audience of millions.

We now know Trump had already tested positive:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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29 Nov
Now that it looks like Trump might run in 2024, is the media prepared to cover a fundamentally anti-democracy candidate who employs rampant disinformation as a deliberate strategy? Some media insiders are sounding the alarm. I offered a few ideas here:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
My suggestions:

First, let's stop saying that Trump and/or his supporters" actually believe" the 2020 election was stolen.

This has the effect of whitewashing away the seriousness of the ongoing threat to democracy:

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Second, no more platitudes about "partisan divisions" and "two different realities."

This obscures the degree to which these breakdowns are the result of one side's bad acting:

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23 Nov
These are strange times for liberals. With BBB we're nearing the most transformative victory in decades. Yet the GOP is entrenching minority rule, political violence is rising, and authoritarianism is on the march.

Some dark thoughts about this moment:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
We're in a really strange split screen moment for American liberals. On one side there's cause for celebration. On the other there's cause for deep despair:

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I tried to go really big picture here, putting BBB in the context of the last 50 years of liberal advancement, retrenchment, and, now, equal parts optimism and despair:

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19 Nov
Passage of BBB is a big victory, but let's not forget this:

Virtually every Republican just voted against a $1.4 trillion tax hike on the rich and corporations.

I talked to tax experts who went deep on what this says about the two parties' priorities:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Republicans are seizing on the SALT provision to argue this bill shows Dems are the party of plutocrats.

Let's talk about how ridiculous this is.

Here's what Republicans just voted against:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
The SALT provision is a serious issue, and not just substantively. It also points to a real coalitional problem Democrats face, with some House members coming from wealthy suburban districts:

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18 Nov
Amazing: Georgia Gov Brian Kemp may now face a primary precisely because he wouldn't steal the election for Trump.

Oddly, Kemp's "election integrity" bill wasn't enough. It's as if GOP voters want people in office who will overturn elections.

My latest:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Trump-backed primary challenges are often framed as retaliation against Republicans who were personally disloyal to Trump.

It's worse than that: They reflect an apparent desire among GOP voters to elect officials who are willing to subvert elections:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Kemp bent over backward to audit the 2020 results and then signed one of the most onerous "election integrity" bills.

It didn't assuage Trumpists' anger in the slightest.

Weren't we told GOP voters merely needed "confidence" in our elections restored?

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17 Nov
Here's my proposal in the wokeness wars: Let's ground our response to the right in egalitarian liberalism. This provides a way to recapture the center, articulate a real vision of our own, and unmask the ugly truth about the right's real goals. My latest:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Chris Rufo tweeted that "it's time to clean house in America" and "lay siege to universities" and "overturn school boards."

This messianism about purging subversive cultural leftism creates an opening for liberals to occupy the center of this debate:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
We should say what we stand for in the wokeness wars. I propose restating our core commitment to egalitarian liberalism.

Here's what that is:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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