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@GregTSargent
Jul 12 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve.

Maybe we should cover Trump's lying as a sign of his unfitness for the presidency. 1/

(link)
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The new Marist poll also finds that 56 percent say Trump lacks the character to be president.

Dishonesty is surely part of that. WaPo found that Trump told 30,000 lies/distortions as president. @ddale8 described his lies at the debate as "staggering." 2/

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I'd like to suggest a crucial distinction, one between "mental" unfitness for the presidency and "temperamental" unfitness for it.

Some polls use the former language, and there Biden loses.

But when it's polled as the latter, Biden leads Trump. 3/

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What would it look like if media covered Trump's lying as a big strike against his temperamental fitness for the presidency?

I suggested some ideas here. See these screen caps. 4/

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One thing we should *not* do is cover Trump's lying as savvy or effective politics. This recent NYT example is a really grating one. 5/

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We keep hearing voter concern about age/mental unfitness is the reason the media relentlessly focuses on it. That's fine, but voters are also concerned about *temperamental* unfitness and sheer dishonesty.

Maybe it's time to cover this the same way. 6/6

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Greg Sargent Profile picture
Dec 9
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
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
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/
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Nov 27
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
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/

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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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Nov 15
Awful: Senate investigations into Trump's solicitation of $1 billion from Big Oil and Jared Kushner's financial dealings with Saudis will now hit a wall with GOP control, Dems tell me. We're headed for unchecked elite corruption under Trump.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/188467…
For many reasons, conditions are ripe for right wing elites to loot the place from top to bottom. Remember when Trump vowed to give Big Oil execs what they want in exchange for $1 billion in campaign funds? Now we'll likely never get to the bottom of it.

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“The next four years are going to be a smash and grab under Trump,” Sen Ron Wyden tells me, because “special interests who put Trump back in office expect a return on their investment."

His probe into Kushner's dealings will get much harder w/GOP control

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