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Nov 29 8 tweets 2 min read
1/ A bit of faffing about on the anti-anti-Trump right at the moment. I know, I know you hate us with the fire of 1000 Suns, but you don't get to escape as easily as "I love Ron DeSantis! He's DREAMY!"

God, after 7 fucking years, don't you get it?
2/ In 2016 you said, "Never" and meant, "Do me harder, Daddy" once Trump won. Oh, you did the "I hate the tweets love the policy" bullshit but you know in your heart how false and reprehensible that was from the start.

You don't get to walk away from that.
3/ To quote the political philosopher Bane, "Your punishment must be more severe."

Here's how it plays out.

You can write a billion NRO columns saying DeSantis craps gold bullion and smells like summer rain, but the seething, hideous mass of the MAGA base is always there.
4/ They're the lunatics talking about the death penalty today for Maricopa County election officials. They're the antivaxxers and the QAnoners.

They're Fuentes and Milo and the rest of the flock of racists, anti-Semites, and whackjobs.

And there are millions of them.
5/ The punishment comes with how hard you'll struggle to not set them against you. How much you'll try to convince them DeSantis is Diet Trump, and better for them.

You can't escape them. You can't change them. You can't reason with them.
6/ And when your pale substitutes for Trump are slowly consumed and defeated, you'll slink back to him, groveling and begging. You'll rationalize and temporize and bargain with the cruel fates of politics.

I know what you won't do.
7/ You won't say The Words AND follow through. You won't risk your jobs.

"I will never vote for Donald Trump in either the primary or the general election" and stick to it. When he wins the primary, you'll break.

You did it before. You'll do it again.
8/ So write another 750 words on DeSantis or Hawley or who effing knows and pretend the ruined church of the dead religion called the conservatism still thrives.

At least loathing those of us who said "Never Trump" and fucking meant it will give you a little hate boner.

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Nov 18
1/ Fam, we'll see if y'all are still here in the morrow, but I've got a flight to London tomorrow (a trip that just jumped up a notch) and I'm going to get some sleep.

Before I go, since it may be the last, I have five assertions for assertions for you.
2/

ITEM 1: Everything Trump Touches Dies is an inexorable and inevitable law of the universe. #ETTD

ITEM 2: America was always great. Imperfect but great and worth fighting for.
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ITEM 3: Diet Pepsi tastes like yak urine filtered through a Soviet-era diesel engine.

ITEM 4: Small teams of serious people do 99% of the work.
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1/ For once, the shoe is on the other foot. Today, it's the GOP wailing and screeching about their failure of messaging. The GOP's message discipline was central to its success for decades.

You could wake candidates up out of a sound sleep and they'd rattle off the MOTD.
2/ They tested and polished and tweaked and worked it on hitting the right tone and messages. It's an art form.

It's also dead.

Trump killed it. Now, the persuasion doesn't matter, only the lib-pwning. They're bound and locked into profoundly stupid ideas like...
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They delivered those messages with volume and efficiency from a well-tuned machine.
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Nov 9
1/ Quick note on Florida.

What the fuck did you THINK would happen?

The Florida GOP is the single best Republican party in the country, hands down. It has infinite money, a deep bench of consultants and operatives, and *wins.*
2/ It’s Alabama football vs the Middle Missouri Girls’ Preparatory Academy Field Hockey team.
The FL Dems? Tough love time: they can’t organize a two-car motorcade, I’ve got more money in my glove compartment, and their skilled operators could fit around a Waffle House table.
3/ And here’s the REAL tough love: they’re too fucking far to the left for a RED STATE. Florida is and has been and is become more of a red state by the day. The idea that DeSantis and Rubio “turned Florida red” is absurd, an almost hilariously bad take.
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1/ So here it is. He's back, and people are finally realizing that no amount of "He's the Former Guy" wishcasting was going to work.

No amount of "He CAN'T run if he's under indictment" copium is changing the grim reality of our world now.

Will it be tonight at 8pm?
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Already, the replay of 2016 is in full flood. The Good Republicans, that vanishing tribe...
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It's only demonstrates how profoundly they misread the MAGA takeover then, and now.
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We have it from THREE events in the last year that Kevin's pitch...
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But for all that private reasonableness and bonhomie, Kevin's majority -- and yes, folks, redistricting and math means he'll have one -- ...
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Last night, Donald Trump road-tested his first open attacks on Tater DeSantis.

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My first thought was, "Holy hell...it's 2015-16 all over again." I can't tell you how many stories ran...
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