Biden didn't just let Trump back into the White House, he said "welcome home". Over 4 years he and Merrick Garland restored norms, that Trump destroyed within weeks.
Dem candidates can't bring this energy again.
Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.
@proptermalone.bsky.social thought:
none of us is going to like what comes after America
I also suspect this is a bot because in their last 100 posts, 98 are replies and most have zero likes.
If it is a real person may god have mercy on their soul
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Jesse @relooreloo.bsky.social • 28m A bad thing (deaths), BUT a good thing (an end to US hegemony) 2 • • •
One way to recognize destructive authoritarian / aesthetic “leftism” is the idea the key plank of politics is, no matter what, the US sucks and is wrong.
People who believe this cannot see nuance, and are idiots. They are usually more interested in hating their parents than improving the world.
Took only two days for Nellie Bowles to be very, very wrong.
(Nellie Bowles is an employee of Bari Weiss’ internet site.)
opposition to pluralism and multi-culturalism is fundamentally un-American and we will defeat the blood and soil monarchists who preach it
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social look at this second line
again I say:
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that is likely a major reason
The answer is that Charles Koch and allied billionairea bought the seats of most of the Republicans in Congress and all six Republicans on the Supreme Court, and Koch and the billionaires also want to destroy America
Thread! On pundits and thinktanks and who not to listen to
This is a man whose bigotry & prejudice has overridden everything he ever learned & made him an ignoramus. Unfortunately this is not a rare condition these days. So when you see Pipes or one of his fellow travelers like Dubowitz make these ridiculous statements & wonder why, this is why. 10 & end/
Did Veep end with prison?
Jail for this man
”the biggest media outlet in the country with 10 million subscribers doesn’t matter for public opinion” please sit with that and think about it a bit, respectfully
Exactamente
”the biggest media outlet in the country with 10 million subscribers doesn’t matter for public opinion” please sit with that and think about it a bit, respectfully
It’s true that Spanish language media may be a bit different but still political media plays an agenda setting role for them too
I’m sorry that some people don’t understand network effects (agenda-setting) and how every journalist in the country reads the NYT and how it informs what people say on TikTok and Instagram
(Same for CNN. Just because you don’t watch it doesn’t mean the people you get info from don’t watch it.)
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Also worth noting that this was the Republican Party plan: lie to the public about what they would do in office.
And our complicit political media went along with it.
This is good but it’s also a sign of media failure.
We knew who Trump was years before 2024. But rightwing media, @jaketapper.bsky.social, and the Sulzberger NYT deceived the public about who he was. That’s the reason for the big shift in Latino support.
I cannot stress how much of a disaster this is
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Yes, it’s a Senator not a House member. Baby steps. More!
This is a good sign: that a sitting Democratic House member is calling an elected Republican a liar.
More of this. Drop the bipartisanship. We need more partisanship and more polarization to get through this.
… for now. There is still time to fix that
This is very likely going to be the “welcome us as liberators“ of the Iran War.
And this time we must impose professional and social consequences on nincompoop destroyers like Bowles
Remember this:
“We're very much and clearly winning. Like, really, really easily.” - Nellie Bowles
Issa is pro-Trump now but not original MAGA, right?
