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Greg Sargent Profile picture
@GregTSargent
Jun 14, 2024 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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An important development: Trump's criminality is becoming a genuine wedge issue against Republicans.

Don't be fooled by GOP's outward shows of unity behind Dear Leader. The cracks in the facade are very clear.

Here's some evidence. 1/

(Link to piece)
newrepublic.com/article/182728…
People overlooked this. But when Rep Mike Simpson, a very senior GOPer, told @playbookdc that he opposes defunding Jack Smith, he also directly undermined the entire Trump/GOP argument that the prosecutions are the illegitimate work of the Deep State. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/182728…
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This is a big deal. A top GOPer essentially admitted Jack Smith is operating within his legit institutional role. As Jamie Raskin told me:

"Mike Simpson just destroyed MAGA-world’s argument that Trump’s prosecution...is fraudulent or in bad faith." 3/

newrepublic.com/article/182728…
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More from Jamie Raskin on Rep Mike Simpson opposing the defunding of Jack Smith:

“Other Republicans should follow Simpson and stop demonizing the justice system and the rule of law."

This is how Trump’s criming is becoming a wedge against the GOP. 4/

newrepublic.com/article/182728…
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More evidence that Trump's criminality is becoming a wedge: Vulnerable House Republicans are balking at voting for all the craven things Mike Johnson is offering to shield Trump from the law.

This has happened numerous times now. Evidence below. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/182728…

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Trump's ritual humiliation of Rs like McConnell on the Hill is all about forcing them to *act as if* the politics of Trump's criming favors the GOP/isn't an issue.

This is spin. The real tell is vulnerable Rs not wanting to vote for shielding Trump. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/182728…
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Trump is forcing Rs to repeatedly vote on protecting him from the law. That's bad for Rs, full stop.

GOP pretending his criming is a winner is psyops. As I try to show, Ds now get this.

(h/t @brianbeutler @joshtpm for making versions of this point) 7/

newrepublic.com/article/182728…

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A link to the full argument at @newrepublic is below. 8/8
newrepublic.com/article/182728…
Related and key from @brianbeutler: Dems have an opening to drive a wedge between Trump and the corporate class. The story is that this class has capitulated. But that doesn't *have* to remain true, just as GOP submission to Trump is only half the story.
offmessage.net/p/the-gops-fin…
Also watch @SimonWDC on Trump/GOP:

"MAGA has been a failed politics. They're doubling down on a politics that keeps losing."

Dominance/submission rituals are about papering this over. But vulnerable Rs are balking at voting to protect Trump right now.

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Greg Sargent Profile picture
Dec 14, 2024
Ominous: GOPers are now saying Trump is picking Kash Patel to "clean out" FBI and restore its "integrity." This will be their cover to go along w/Trump's scheme to unleash FBI on enemies. Media already credulously echoing this claim. Awful.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/189406…
Nobody is required to pretend GOPers actually believe it when they say Trump is picking Kash Patel to "reform" the FBI in any meaningful sense. It's a lie. Rs know Trump is only picking him to target enemies and they should be hounded on this point.

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There's also this media narrative that the GOP is now "suspicious" of law enforcement as part of a principled ideological repositioning. Nonsense. This should *itself* be treated as spin, as cover to justify abuses that Trump already intended to unleash.

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Dec 9, 2024
Trump's win confirmed once again that our information ecosystem is a total dumpster fire, and that Dems need a real answer to it.

I asked three leading candidates for DNC chair how they'd fix this.

Here's what they said. 1/

(new piece from me)
newrepublic.com/article/189147…
First note that Elon Musk spent $20 million on the RBG PAC, which sought to deceive people into thinking Trump's abortion stance is similar to Ruth Bader Ginsburg's.

This and X becoming a right wing disinfo machine show the depths of the problem. 2/

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I asked three DNC chair hopefuls how they'd fix the party's info problem. @benwikler tells me that millions of voters are getting *all* their info about Dems from GOP and right wing sources. He would train an army of surrogates to "disrupt" this. 3/

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Dec 5, 2024
Striking: In numerous cases, Republicans or GOP-aligned industries are now admitting that mass deportations and rolling back Biden's climate agenda could prove disastrous in their parts of the country.

In my new piece, I've compiled many examples of this:
newrepublic.com/article/189054…
In Georgia, some local Republicans are openly saying that repealing green energy investments will result in shuttered factories and job loss.

This shows what a scam Trump pulled by claiming the green transition existentially threatens the working class.

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A clear pattern:

*In California, agriculture interests and GOP lawmakers fear mass deportations will cripple their industry
*In Texas, construction industry fears same
*In Georgia, at least one town that went for Trump worries economy will be upended

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Dec 1, 2024
This is a good discussion but on immigration in particular this is not an intellectually adequate frame for understanding what happened. The groups did not dictate the Biden/Harris immigration agenda. If anything they were sidelined/ignored more aggressively than under Obama 1/
At this point someone will note that Harris took left wing positions on immigration in 2019. True, but the vast bulk of GOP attacks concerned the Biden/Harris handling of immigration *while in office,* and there Biden was mostly at odds with the groups all throughout 2/
It's true that Biden undid *some* of Trump's immigration policies. But these were mainly ones that produced particularly terrible humanitarian outcomes. Aside from that Biden took many actions that the groups disliked. See this @David_J_Bier rundown 3/
cato.org/blog/list-120-…
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Nov 27, 2024
This is getting overlooked, but the whole premise of Trump's threat of tariffs is based on a lie. He's claiming Mexico must be bullied into stopping migrants. But Mexico is *already* doing this. That's a big reason crossings have dropped. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/188854…
Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum's harsh response to Trump went viral for its claim about US guns trafficked to Mexico. But she also noted that Mexico has a comprehensive policy in place for stopping migrants traveling north to the border. That's important. 2/

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It's funny that Sheinbaum would cite US statistics to make the case that border apprehensions have dropped due in part to Mexico's enforcement, because Trump pretends none of this is happening at all.

The chart below shows what Trump won't tell you. 3/

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Nov 21, 2024
A Trump-appointed judge just struck down a Biden rule expanding overtime pay to 4 million working people.

It's really surprising how little media coverage this has received. Trump faced no real questions about this issue during the campaign. 1/

(link)
newrepublic.com/article/188663…
Remember the media frenzy about "Rich Men North of Richmond," the song MAGA claimed as their anthem? The media spent weeks obsessing over it as a cry of anguish from the blue collar heartland aimed at elites.

That song was all about overtime pay! 2/

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In the song, singer Oliver Anthony says he's struggling with long hours/low overtime pay, and says elites are rigging the system against him. Yet the Biden rule is all about combatting exactly this kind of elite rigging of the economy against workers. 3/

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