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Christopher Orr
@OrrChris
Film critic and editor. Contributing writer for @TheAtlantic and Contributor for @Forbes. All opinions my own. RTs are not necessarily endorsements.
Aug 4, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A fair number of Never Trump Republicans for whom I have a lot of respect are (I think quite unjustifiably) skeptical that Cuomo is finished, and I can't help but think it's because even they still believe in some parity between the parties where corruption is concerned. 1/8 I'm still seeing "Will enough Dems turn against Cuomo?" I'm sorry, but how many do you want? State law makers and law enforcement? Joseph F. Biden? I mean come on. Compare to the GOP for an instant. 2/8
Nov 13, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"Golden Goose" has something to be said for it as Trump's nickname for himself, at least from a physical perspective.

But it actually gets more interesting from there. 1/7 Trump is clearly thinking--a normal error--not of The Golden Goose (a fable by the Brothers Grimm), but of The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs (a fable by Aesop).

The latter fits the point he's trying to make: Fox killed its egg-laying goose (him), and now it's out of eggs. 2/7
Nov 3, 2020 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Putting a marker down today for what may have been the most overlooked political story of the year: Joe Biden ran a superb presidential campaign.

Once we get election results this may become conventional wisdom or be seen (wrongly) to have been disproven. 1/x Biden ran well in the primaries and in the general. He did it as an underdog and as a frontrunner. He did it against normal candidates and against the most abnormal candidate in living memory. 2/x
Nov 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@MJGerson's latest column is customarily excellent. But I take narrow issue with the line below. Trump-era "authenticity" does not imply that people are all good; it implies that people are all *bad*. 1/4 washingtonpost.com/opinions/weve-… This is how Trump gives license to his supporters to act out their most selfish, antisocial, and occasionally violent impulses. If everyone else is bad, then you should have the right to be bad in turn, too, right? 2/4
Aug 28, 2020 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
A quick thread on this line, and ones like it. It's one of the most common themes of the Trump era, and I think one of the most misunderstood. 1/x It is almost always interpreted--and is clearly meant to be interpreted--as "I'd never speak/tweet that way because THOSE ARE BAD THINGS TO SAY, AND I DISAPPROVE OF THEM." 2/x