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Jun 13 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
I'm going to try something quaint but important: respond to Republican trolling about #inflation & the #StockMarket a dose of facts & expertise, courtesy of top economist @Markzandi on Beyond Politics:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sta…
Because facts and expertise should still matter.
1/11
And important note, because everyone questions everyone's partisan motivations these days. @Markzandi is widely trusted with good reason: he's a Democrat who also advised the McCain campaign in 2008. He calls it straight.
2/11
First, inflation: "There's a long list of reasons for high inflation, but at the top of the list is the pandemic and the disruption to global supply chains, labor markets, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has sent oil, gasoline, commodity prices, skyward."
3/11
He showed his receipts in another thread. Say it with me people: it's mostly Russia and Covid.
4/11
What about the Republican thing that #inflation was caused by spending under Biden/American Rescue Plan (ARP)? (i.e., we spent $5 trillion fighting the pandemic recession, $4 trillion under Trump, so let's blame everything bad on Biden! Oh, and ignore all the jobs growth).
5/11
Well,"What about all that inflation overseas? I mean, go look at the UK or Canada or Australia. Their inflation rates are within spitting distance of ours and they're accelerating straight up. So are we saying the ARP caused their inflation too?" - @Markzandi
6/11
I am painfully aware that voters will blame the current President for everything they don't like. The buck stops there. That's politics. And people react way more to inflation than other critical economic factors like jobs, wealth, and business profitability.
7/11
But a mass anger reaction isn't the best way to govern or to make financial or political decisions. Look no further than the #DowJones today. Is this year's bear market rational? NO. Just listen to @MotleyFoolMoney's @TMFChrisHill on Beyond Politics:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mot…
8/11
Cliffs notes version: the mood of the market swings around irrationally and will take the same basic set of facts from company earnings or economic conditions as good news or bad news depending on that mood.
9/11
Bottom line: people can play politics however they want. They can take out their frustration on the President, warranted or not. But don't let the Fox News crowd and Russian bots meme you and troll you into starting to buy their unreality about what's happening and why.
10/11
Final thing: Beyond Politics is now a top 50 Apple politics podcast. We want to keep it moving up, and keep bringing interesting, meaningful content. So please subscribe wherever you get podcasts (here's Apple). And I always appreciate follows here.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bey…
11/11

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Jun 14
What if Democrats could do something immediate and bold to stand up for women's equality, help protect the right to abortion, and go on offense against right-wingers who would drag women's status back to the 17th century?

They could.

1/13
As I wrote for @johnastoehr's publication The Editorial Board, the Biden Administration *could* treat the Equal Rights Amendment to the constitution as enacted. Why? Because many legal scholars argue that in fact, it is already.

2/13
Additional legal scholars like @kimwehle, quoted in the article, argue persuasively that this would open up the path to a powerful constitutional argument to protect abortion.
3/13
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May 16
The mass shooting in #Buffalo, right wing extremism on guns, and the takeover of the judiciary by leveraging abortion (per last week's thread) are connected. The connection is money. It fuels the complex right-wing network that captured the Court and props up politicians.
1/18
The network is complex and confusing by design. It makes the "All the President's Men" mantra of "follow the money" really hard. But here are just a *few* of the threads we do know about, and how they connect to #RoeVWade, #GunViolence, #SCOTUS, and white nationalism.
2/18
Start with Leonard Leo, who sits at the center of many more overlapping right-wing groups than even he can count (literally: "I have no idea how many groups I’ve been involved with over the years”). washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/… Here's a tiny portion (h/t @EXPOSEDbyCMD):
3/18
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May 10
I want to offer a reminder of history - one that really matters now.Key point: the American religious right made abortion their big issue *not* out of moral conviction, but as a tactical choice to cover their broader agenda, especially protecting segregation.
1/16
This matters so much because we are very much living with the impacts of that decision right now. We will continue to for years to come. Let's look at what happened and why it is such an ongoing issue.
2/16
Look at this statement from 1971 from SOUTHERN BAPTISTS. This was basically where evangelical leaders were for 5 years AFTER Roe. They were essentially where most of America is right now in polling. They were essentially pro choice.
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May 9
The focus on #RoeVWade comes against an interesting backdrop: in many ways, American men and women are living in different mental worlds. And the gap is growing. I talked with @dcoxpolls on Great Ideas about his research on this. A few takeaways.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/men…
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1/6
We know that politically, women are migrating to the Dem Party. This is particularly true of college-educated women. The proportion of college educated women in the Dem Party has more than doubled in the last twenty years and is now almost 1/3 of Dems.
2/6
We also know that Dems have been increasingly capturing college-educated voters. Those two trends go hand in hand: more women than men finishing college, young people < age 34 with a college degree increasingly driven by women, and those voters increasingly being Dems.
3/6
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Apr 27
What really grabs me about this sentence, the more I think about it (and @RepRaskin & @johnastoehr are right, this is the key sentence) is that given what we now know about the inside plan, including possible martial law, this could have been what Pence was worried about...
1/ 11
We can see from Mark Meadows' texts that Marjorie Taylor Greene is telling him that a number of Republicans in Congress wanted and supported martial law--this was clearly being talked about in the more extreme R circles. cnn.com/2022/04/25/pol…
2/11
And we know that disruption and confusion about the status of the count were the point of the Eastman memo plan. Play for time. Make the Democrats challenge in court. cnn.com/2021/09/21/pol…
3/11
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Apr 1
Thread: Democrats must refocus what we're doing *right now* if we're going to save democracy.

Below, how specifically we can do that. This thread draws from my new article on @johnastoehr. The full details are here, which I hope you'll read:
editorialboard.com/refocus-your-e…
1/17
As @LOLGOP pointedly showed in The Editorial Board @johnastoehr last week, as a party, we get so angry about right-wing nutcases that we vastly overspend on candidates with no shot.
editorialboard.com/marjorie-taylo…
2/17
But it's not just that. In general, we obsess over federal races while under-funding state races and overlooking local offices. What @ezraklein correctly calls "chasing the shiny object."
3/17
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