This is what happens in a conventional campaign with a conventional candidate. They’ve been planning this for weeks and decided to push on, despite the news yesterday and the #Parkland anniversary today. The video is 3.5 minutes of blah that the #MAGAs are already ridiculing 1/
And “normal” Republicans will roll their eyes at. To have ANY chance of making a dent in Trump, Haley would have to go all in on attacking him. Instead, she and her team are stuck firmly in 2015 thinking (h/t @TheRickWilson) that if they can just ignore Sauron 2/
What they either don’t know, don’t understand, or can’t comprehend, is that Trump’s minions will do his work for him. Like Sentinels in the Matrix, his supporters will leave no piece of Haley’s campaign unscathed, as he sips Diet Coke at Mar-A-Lago…3/
And this, dear readers, is why none of Trump’s so-called opponents is at all prepared to take him on in a real primary. Like so many of their NYC/DC financial and political supporters, they’re hoping he’ll just disappear one day. But face the monster? No. 4/
Over/under on @NikkiHaley’s campaign running out of money? I’d say she won’t last til Labor Day based on what I’m seeing (and having made many of the same mistakes.) Even if it were a ‘normal’ year, Haley isn’t demonstrating anything inspiring or different. 5x
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A few thoughts on Kevin’s tough-guy stance. It’s all an act. He sold out to #MAGA for the Gavel of Damocles but now he’s stuck. He knows default on the debt is a terrible idea. He knows the GOP will take the blame (they always do) and he knows his big $ donors demand he fix it 1/
So KevBo looks around. @potus to the left, MAGA to the right. Neither one plans on budging. @SpeakerMcCarthy is hoping and praying that the WH, Schumer or McConnell will come to his rescue. They won’t. He’s convinced the “moderates” once again to do his dirty work. 2/
And then there’s the hypocrisy. The @HouseGOP voted three times for “clean” #debtceiling increases under Trump WHILE ALSO jacking the deficit with massive tax cuts for wealthy and corp America. Kevin’s look down at the bed of nails his party made, he just won’t lie in it. 3/
On this #January6th, let's review the last two years. First, we should thank those officers who put themselves between the insurrectionists and American democracy. We should take an extra moment for those who gave their last full measure of devotion...1/
Never forget that #January6th was a conspiracy begun and driven by Donald Trump and his cronies. @MaryLTrump told us he'd never leave peacefully and she was correct. He was aided and abetted by dozens, if not hundreds who were happy to see democracy fall for their own gain...2/
At the Capitol that day, the likes of @HawleyMO and @tedcruz objected to an election they knew was free and fair because they believed it was good for their 'brands' and would help them win #MAGA support down the road. Both are cynics who don't belong in office...3/
Quick 🧵on why @GOPLeader is scrambling around like a raccoon on an overturned garbage can.
Sometime last month, he got a poll back showing that suburban white voters were either staying home or voting blue. They freaked out and called in Gingrich and Frank Luntz 1/
They went into overdrive, probably spending a shit-ton of money on more polling and focus groups and came up with their half-baked “commitment” to America. Problem, though: all the messages are so thin as to be meaningless. “Better economy” - good one, Kev. 2/
On the other side, though, they found that #UltraMAGA voters don’t really love anyone, either. Enter the racist bullhorn brigade. When all else fails, scare the white people. 3/
Quick 🧵 on the return of violence in Trumpland messaging. First, it's not for you, me, or anyone in the pro-democracy movement. It's for the #UltraMAGA - conditioning them for the day when violence occurs and it will seem normal. This is all on ONE side. 1/
Trump's threats represent a rare failure of his lies to give him an escape route with his supporters. Since the Mar-A-Lago search broke the lies have evolved: illegal, they planted evidence, he declassified docs, they're his, have failed to keep the outer rings in line. 2/
As Trump's grip loosens, even slightly, he and his circle will make the idea of prosecution more and more egregious to the #UltraMAGA faithful. It's also a dare to DOJ to move ahead with a prosecution: whatever happens post-indictment will be Biden's fault. Trump warned them. 3/
.@JuddLegum's write-up on corporate PAC giving to Republicans who voted against certifying the 2020 election is a must-read. A few things to consider: 1) Companies said they wouldn't give to seditionists in the wake of #January6th. Some, like @ATT and @Cigna broken the promise 1/
Others, though, like @Allstate, @BlackRock and @CBS have kept their promises. These, and the dozens of other corporations who've kept their money on the sidelines should be models for others. But also a reminder to keep the pressure on 2/
The Politico article quotes GOP mega-lobbyist Brian Ballard as saying, "Time heals all wounds" in regards to 1/6 and corporate giving. But it shouldn't. Seditionists have no place in positions of public trust. Also a reminder that DC lobbying is a transactional business...3/
Today marks 58 years since Dr. King wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here.”
“An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself.” - Letter from a Birmingham Jail - April 16, 1963 #SB202
“...injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.” - Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963