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Mulvaney is an extraordinary hack but for much of the Trump era his supporters really did accept a vast gulf between the president's promises and what actually happened in the
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I've been meaning to write something about this @aaronsibarium essay but I'll just link to it today as one of the most nuanced explications of certain worst-case scenarios:https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/weimarization-ameri
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I suppose I think one mistake here is the belief that the American right as currently constituted can out-compete liberalism or the left in a war of competing myths and
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Let me briefly defend @ezraklein's claims about the centrality of polarization to America's problems against @ezraklein's argument that the "dearth of the democracy" is really America's biggest challenge.https://ww
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I think a key question for any newer right is whether it will fight hard *for* every vote, aspiring to the majorities Nixon and Reagan won, or whether it will
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Good thread. Republicans aren't "coddling" the president. A minority are cynically adopting his arguments. Most are trying to figure out how to do the right thing without ratifying his stab-in-the-back
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Good @EricLevitz look at the agony of progressivism, to which I would append one thought:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/2020-election-results-biden-won-democrats-senate-loss.html Some of the agony is a rage against the injustice of
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One more thread on the proper baseline for thinking about the US death toll, because I hadn't seen this from @germanrlopez when I wrote yesterday's thread.https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/9/9/21428769/covid-19-coronavirus-dea
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Let's do a thread on my Sunday column, which provoked some understandably strong reactions:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/opinion/sunday/covid-19-trump.html Some of those reactions were misreadings, so it's worth emphasizing:I t
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This seems not-exactly-right in an important way. In most ways the 1990s were, judged by polling and behavior, more socially conservative than the '70s and '80s.https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1281656449203085313 Taibbi is rig
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