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Excellent summary of MAGA how nincompoops are becoming more radicalized after the massive repudiation this election of Trump's cruel deportation policies by @GregTSargent newrepublic.com/article/2177… via @newrepublic
excellent summary of my summary! thank you @shikhadalmia
Excellent summary of MAGA how nincompoops are becoming more radicalized after the massive repudiation this election of Trump's cruel deportation policies by @GregTSargent newrepublic.com/article/2177… via @newrepublic
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Agree with Raskin and Murphy. Congress must use every legitimate tool at its disposal to influence policy for the next two years. The determination and aggressiveness Ds showed during their campaigns need to continue in government. Carefully select the key targets, then go after them as relentlessly as needed to get results. Everyone on board!
NEWS: Rep Jamie Raskin and Sen Chris Murphy tell me and @brianbeutler that Dems will have to wield the spending power more aggressively than they're typically used to, in order to provide a check on Trump lawlessness. It's a novel and aggressive move:
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Demonstrable dishonesty from JD Vance. Note how he says Congress hasn't "used" its "tools for registering policy disagreements."
What absolute nonsense. There has been over a dozen congressional votes *on the Iran war itself.*
Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not.
Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking. Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump. Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential).
The irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the issues where he's most correct: repositioning forces away from Europe/Ukraine and reorganizing the general officer corps.
This isn't about Iran, this is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon.
NEWS: Rep Jamie Raskin and Sen Chris Murphy tell me and @brianbeutler that Dems will have to wield the spending power more aggressively than they're typically used to, in order to provide a check on Trump lawlessness. It's a novel and aggressive move:
newrepublic.com/article/2177…
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Please read this with that Roger Stone threat posing as an Axios article
Imperative: If and when Trump treats any/all oversight like a dead letter, Dems will have to wield the spending power aggressively to force Trump/WH to comply.
@brianbeutler and I went long on all the tactics Dems can deploy to boost Congress's power:
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Democrats must use every tool available to wield their power ruthlessly and bury Trumpism. Make this your essential reading today.
Imperative: If and when Trump treats any/all oversight like a dead letter, Dems will have to wield the spending power aggressively to force Trump/WH to comply.
@brianbeutler and I went long on all the tactics Dems can deploy to boost Congress's power:
newrepublic.com/article/2177…
Imperative: If and when Trump treats any/all oversight like a dead letter, Dems will have to wield the spending power aggressively to force Trump/WH to comply.
@brianbeutler and I went long on all the tactics Dems can deploy to boost Congress's power:
newrepublic.com/article/2177…
Real banger of a paragraph from @mtomasky. As he writes, Republicans never get hung up on this kind of nonsense. Read the whole thing!
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.@GregTSargent: "Many have blamed the outcome largely on #Trump’s Iran war and adopted other tricks to absolve all that niggling white-nationalist stuff of any role in this catastrophe." newrepublic.com/article/2177… #UnitedStates
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Vance and these MAGA figures are all pushing the idea that the outcome doesn't demonstrate any need to back off the goal of emptying the country of immigrants for ethnonationalist purposes.
But they're wrong: That project has indeed been repudiated.
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Don't overlook this: When Trump admitted immigration enforcement helped cause GOP rout, he actually undercut JD Vance. Trump acknowledged Americans like immigrants. JD has been trying to absolve MAGA's anti-immigrant stance of any/all blame.
New from me:
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When Trump made 2024 Latino inroads, MAGA-adjacent pundits said it showed Trumpism can reach nonwhite working class, turning Latino citizens against new arrivals (Haitians). Latinos swung back, so they've dropped idea of winning them/want to deport them.
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Vance and these MAGA figures are all pushing the idea that the outcome doesn't demonstrate any need to back off the goal of emptying the country of immigrants for ethnonationalist purposes.
But they're wrong: That project has indeed been repudiated.
newrepublic.com/article/2177…
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When Trump made 2024 Latino inroads, MAGA-adjacent pundits said it showed Trumpism can reach nonwhite working class, turning Latino citizens against new arrivals (Haitians). Latinos swung back, so they've dropped idea of winning them/want to deport them.
newrepublic.com/article/2177…
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A bunch of MAGA types are now claiming the bloodbath shows MAGA should double down on ethno-nationalism, that Americans still support mass deportations.
But they're cherry-picking from exit polls to make this case. It's egregious.
(h/t @willsommer)
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Trump admits to @Douthat60 that Americans like immigrants. Vance only admits enforcement *tactics* might have alienated voters. JD wants to preserve the underlying ethnonationalist agenda/worldview from any blame for the election's outcome.
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