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@GregTSargent
Jun 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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The Fox News blackout of the 1/6 hearings shows that Republicans benefit from a huge propaganda apparatus that hermetically seals off the GOP electorate from damaging truths. Meanwhile, right wing disinfo pollutes bothsides MSM coverage, helping GOP more:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"If there is one last human being in DC who clung to the idea that Fox is a center-right journalistic institution with opinion at night, this should be the end of that."

I talked to @danpfeiffer about Fox's 1/6 propaganda and how it will influence MSM:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
@danpfeiffer "Roger Ailes was a political ad maker. He had this insight that if Fox was a pseudo news organization, it would have greater influence on what other news organizations covered."

@danpfeiffer on how we got to this point. Right wing ref-gaming is central:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
@danpfeiffer An interesting exchange: The younger generation of Dems like @ChrisMurphyCT, @brianschatz and @MalloryMcMorrow all grasp the value of making noise, of having big, viral moments.

The current Dem leadership came of age in a different media universe:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
@danpfeiffer @ChrisMurphyCT @brianschatz @MalloryMcMorrow Finally, I asked @danpfeiffer what his answers are to both the Dems' information problem and the intra-party "wokeness" debate:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
@danpfeiffer @ChrisMurphyCT @brianschatz @MalloryMcMorrow Numerous news organizations are describing the coming Fox/GOP disinformation push as "counter-programming" the 1/6 hearings.

Stop doing this. It puts rank propaganda on a plane of equivalence with legitimate congressional fact finding:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

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Oct 11
This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This opens a window into MAGA propaganda and MSM's failure to cope with it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/201669…
Trump and Stephen Miller have relied on an army of MAGA "influencers" disseminating a fraudulent picture of Portland in chaos, to bolster the case for deploying military.

NYT has a good piece on this. But it made several missteps worth highlighting. 2/

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NYT piece calls these MAGA types "provocateurs." It describes "dueling versions of reality." Common MSM tropes.

But these aren't provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/

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Oct 10
Appalling: JB Pritzker tells me he hasn't been able to get a single convo with Kristi Noem or any other top Trump officials to even discuss their Chicago operations. Pritzker just wants heads up for logistical reasons. Nada.

Pritzker opens up on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/201604…
JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline front and center. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this.

newrepublic.com/article/201606…Image
Stephen Miller just said the Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful police operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

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Oct 8
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics and have developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems must reckon w/Miller's understanding of the moment.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/201453…
Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and nudge low-info voters into accepting authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom get that this requires an info-war in response.

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Trump just threatened to invoke Insurrection Act if govs/judges act *lawfully* within the constitutional system in ways that displease him.

Miller's statements show their real position: Trump's power to invent pretexts for emergency actions is limitless.

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Oct 7
Trump's tweet that Portland is "war ravaged" just backfired. A Trump-picked judge cited it in blocking National Guard deployment to Portland, declaring him "untethered from facts."

On the pod, Oregon AG Dan Rayfield explains the ruling and what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/201408…
Highlights from this pod w/Oregon AG Dan Rayfield: He tells me Dem AGs are preparing for likelihood that Trump will expand efforts to federalize National Guards and deploy them in more cities.

Trump is trying to normalize troops in US cities, he says.

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Oregon AG Dan Rayfield warns:

"Anyone who’s seen the visual presence of what it’s like to live in an authoritarian country knows it’s a very different existence. That can never become a reality for us."

Stephen Miller is trying to acclimate us to this.

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Oct 3
Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.

"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/

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Chris Murphy says Dems should lay down a simple marker for Trump: No support for anything that funds lawbreaking.

"if you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness. This isn't a normal time...world [is] watching to see what we stand for." 2/

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Senator Murphy also lays out a clear set of codified demands that Dems can stand for. Among them:

*no more using budget to punish enemies
*no more using FCC to censor critics
*restrictions on ICE lawlessness in interior
*clear ban on troops in cities

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Oct 2
Russell Vought's sadistic threat to kill projects in blue states will blow back on GOP. One getting defunded is reportedly a huge hydrogen project in northwest that would also serve Montana. Its GOP governor has hailed it as a big job creator.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/201286…
In upstate New York, vulnerable House GOPer Mike Lawler defended Trump by claiming, Hey, these cuts will hurt my district, too! He didn't realize he was admitting that Russ Vought's cuts will hurt Trump voters as well.

(h/t @atrupar)

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@atrupar One project that Russ Vought's cuts are reportedly targeting is the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub. Turns out this project spans Oregon, Washington State, and MONTANA. The GOP governor of Montana has hailed it for creating "good paying Montana jobs."

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