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One of my meta-takes on Trump & the Trump years is that all your critiques of him do not put HIM in a bad light-- he is what he is,
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Every major political journalist has heard the cries of protest about both-sides coverage. They're all aware of it & aware of the problems with it. But they also know that
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One of my conservative dad's (& semi-conservative brother's) most enduring beliefs about liberals -- by which they mean everyone to the left of Rs -- is that they walk in
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Nothing is more fundamental to the worldview of the Very Online, over-educated, hyper-verbal, A-student left than the notion that WORDS ("messaging") are the skeleton key to politics, the answer to
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It's amazing how often I log on to find the internet absolutely savaging Dem leadership for ... not getting more out of Republicans. Even supposedly nonpartisan journalists do it! Like,
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This week I posted a 3-part interview w/ @dcullenward & David Victor, authors of the new book Making Climate Policy Work. It's about CO2 pricing -- mainly cap&trade systems, which
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My take on Pete as Transportation Secretary is that it probably won't matter much one way or the other. I'll say one other thing about Pete, which is sure to
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But that's the wrong way to think about it. The nationalism, anti-intellectualism, xenophobia, resentment, cruelty, & lust for authoritarianism did not, at some point, displace conservatism. They are simply what
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I've got other things I ought to be doing ... so how about a thread? When I talk about what contemporary US conservatives are doing (to wit: being f'ing horrible),
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This is a great episode of @yourewrongabout, about misinformation, why it ends up affecting older people the most/worst, and why the bulk of it comes from the right.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/losing-relatives-to-fox-news/id138000
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This is the rawest, most accurate description of modern US conservatism that I've ever seen. Trump's one true talent is speaking the id of the right-wing base aloud to them,
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I was just reminded that technically I'm still on vacation for two more days. Based on that info, should I: All right, I have heard your counsel, and I am
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