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Feb 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
foreign policy goals of defeated former president Donald Trump and his MAGA movement bear a striking resemblance to those of Russian President Vladimir Putin washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
Trump, like his Russian role model, favored weakening NATO, elevating dictators (from China to Turkey to North Korea to Hungary), undermining democratic elections, demonizing the media (the best check against power-hungry politicians) and finding common ground with kleptocrats
It takes quite a feat of contortion for these Republicans to remain defenders of Trump and deplore his successor for not doing enough to stand up to Putin.
contempt for democracy domestically often goes hand in hand with contempt for democratic allies abroad — and hence, sympathy for authoritarian regimes.

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Feb 22
The president should begin with a reminder where we were a year ago. With a booming economy (6.6 million new jobs), a large majority vaccinated, schools open it's hard to overstate the improvements
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Second, Biden needs to spend considerable time explaining what the ARP did (who got aid, what would have happened without it) and what the infrastructure legislation will produce (including major strides in green energy). Here is where he levels w/voters about inflation
Saving people from misery was not wrong; now, however, the Federal Reserve must do its job to contain inflation. Biden has done his part — getting the economy back up and running to meet demand. He can do some small things (e.g., supply chains) but inflation will abate over time.
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Feb 16
The GOP has completed its transition from “law and order” party to the party of thugs, violence and harassment. 8 Senate Rs protest the creation of a no-fly list for passengers who lash out at airline personnel enforcing federal mask requirements.
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The no-fly list is not for people who simply grumble about mask-wearing. Common sense measures to protect Americans against assault, threats of violence and other conduct that puts fellow Americans at risk should be universally applauded.
No surprise that R who call violent insurrection “legitimate political discourse” oppose consequences for bad behavior on airplanes. Rs have repeatedly sided with thugs
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Feb 14
Cheney recently told the New York Times: “I’m not going to convince the crazies and I reject the crazies." Hillary Clinton deserves an apology from the political class for their faux outrage over her “deplorables.”
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Cowardice is still the order of the day in the GOP. There are a few brave souls in the party, but the censure motion, consistent GOP rhetoric and polling tell us that MAGA Republicans are firmly in control. It’s not even close.
Rather than perpetuating the fantasy that there is a sane GOP electorate waiting for a savior, why not band together in a national, pro-democracy coalition to deprive the MAGA party of power?
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Feb 14
as evident in the GOP’s rooting for Canada’s right-wing trucker blockade protesting vaccine mandates, its goals are chaos, economic self-harm and lawlessness.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
Parents threatening school board members? No problem! Thugs menacing poll workers? Go get 'em! Truckers occupying cities and sending our workers to unemployment lines? Swell! You'd never guess this is the party that inveighs against Ds for being weak on crime or anti-business.
A party that considers it heroic to occupy major cities and wreak havoc on innocent people — or that thinks marauding through the Capitol and assaulting police a party antagonistic only toward democ + “ordered liberty,” which used to be a big deal for the right.
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Feb 13
Aside from “Who cares if Susan Collins votes for the nominee?,” the response to pleas for an equivocating, timid justice is simple: Bipartisanship has proved to be a one-way street, which is not a goal unto itself. Moreover, the stakes have changed
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Democracy defenders and civil rights advocates should aim to seed dissents with stinging rebukes of judicial arrogance, dissents that over time can provide the framework for recapturing the constitutional rights and judicial legitimacy this court has sabotaged.
the new justice and her allies need the fortitude and smarts to dismantle the canard of judicial textualism and originalism that cloaks the right wing’s judicial imperialism.
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Feb 2
The authoritarian right has mounted a devious, three-prong strategy to control debate, indoctrinate the young and eradicate adherence to objective reality. The tactics are central to a movement that wants to solidify White dominance over American politics.
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the right created its own media silo in which lies, propaganda and kooky conspiracy theories replace science, facts and critical thinking.
the right has rigorously demonized complaints about racism and demands for racial inclusivity as “wokeness” or “cancel culture.” Screaming about “wokeness” seeks to disable the strength of social opprobrium so that right-wingers can go on offending and demeaning others.
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