Carlos Lozada
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Proud to share that my essay collection, THE WASHINGTON BOOK, is out today!
@GuardianBooks
calls it “a monumental read” and “so f—-ing good.”
Order it here:
And come see me chat with
@MarkLeibovich
at
@PoliticsProse
on Saturday!
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My dad passed away on Monday at age 91, and today my sister and I eulogized him. Obsessed with our education, he was never happier or prouder than at our graduation ceremonies.
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“You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?”
“Which generals?” Kelly asked.
“The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded.
“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.
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I've now read RAGE by Woodward and COMPROMISED by Strzok and DISLOYAL by Cohen and TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH by Mary Trump and TRUE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS by Toobin and TRIGGERED by Don Jr. -- ask me anything.
(Except why I do this to myself.)
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When we look back on all this, the notion that Trump was impeached for the Ukraine call alone will seem utterly bizarre.
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I just waved at my 6th grader who was standing at the bus stop with her friends, and she totally pretended not to see me.
So it begins.
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Really struck by Joe Biden’s words on the promise of equality in the Declaration of Independence: “We’ve never fully lived up to it, but we’ve never before, until this president, walked away from it.”
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Some 5-6 years ago, after I became a book critic at the
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Some personal news:
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Also thinking about the scene in Michael Cohen’s memoir DISLOYAL in which Trump mocks the Internal Revenue Service: “Can you believe how fucking stupid the IRS is? Who would give me a refund of ten fucking million dollars?”
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Comey’s book publisher is the one who should be declaring “Mission Accomplished”
I never asked Comey for Personal Loyalty. I hardly even knew this guy. Just another of his many lies. His “memos” are self serving and FAKE!
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In his memoir A FULL LIFE: REFLECTIONS AT NINETY, Jimmy Carter described “the worst threat” he and Rosalynn ever experienced to their marriage. It was when they tried to write a book together:
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Farewell, Trump books, 2016-2020. Don’t know when I’ll open you up again.
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Page B3 of this morning’s
@washingtonpost
@PostOutlook
section is simply astonishing:
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My wife is asking me why journalists are always the ones who get to ask questions at the debates. Why not the professors at the college? Or why not historians who have studied the presidency? It’s not like journalists know more than anyone else. “No offense,” she adds.
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Has Trump changed America or has he helped reveal it more clearly
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Trump’s
#MeToo
advice, per Woodward book:
“You’ve got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women. If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you’re dead.”
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I came to the USA at age 3. Years later I became a citizen and am raising a family here, always grateful that America opened its arms to me.
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This off-campus party was quite the rager
#NEW
: Around 18
@NotreDame
faculty members attended the
@WhiteHouse
nomination ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett Saturday, and “multiple” are still awaiting coronavirus test results
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“Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan reveals in a new book that the first lady was also using her delayed arrival to the White House as leverage for renegotiating her prenuptial agreement with President Trump.” In
@marycjordan
’s new Melania book:
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The only love letter Barbara Bush kept from George HW during World War II (the others were lost). It is dated December 12, 1943. “How often I have thought about the immeasurable joy that will be ours someday. How lucky our children will be to have a mother like you—“
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"Flynn is a bit player in a much larger story regarding the president’s relationship with the Kremlin."
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The move from “lock her up” in 2016 to “send her back” today is the move from strongman lawlessness to white nationalism as your operating principle. Welcome to the 2020 campaign.
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“He lied about it because he never expected to win.”
So much about the past three years can be explained because people assumed Hillary Clinton could not lose and Donald Trump could not win. And everyone acted accordingly.
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I still have my father’s 1976 paperback of ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN. He was a new immigrant to the U.S., underlining the words he didn’t understand. I was 4 years old. He never imagined that decades later, I’d work at the Washington Post, and once even edit Woodward and Bernstein.
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It’s my sixth Independence Day as a U.S. citizen. Happy 4th of July, everyone!
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That makes one of them.
Trump just introduced this border patrol agent name Adrian and said, "He speaks perfect English!"
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That feeling when the thing you supposedly didn’t mean to say is the only thing anyone can remember...
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“That was a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck.” —
@jaketapper
“That was a shit show.”
—
@DanaBashCNN
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Judge Kavanaugh repeatedly referenced the Jesuit education he received at Georgetown Prep in today’s hearing. Now the editors of the Jesuit magazine
@americamag
are calling for his nomination to be withdrawn:
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"Advisers to the Lincoln Project, which they say has about 30 employees and raised $16.8 million this quarter, will soon expand to include ground operations. They are coordinating over 2,500 volunteers in Michigan."
Story by
@AshleyRParker
&
@costareports
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“I confess that there have been times during the course of writing my book, as I’ve reflected on my presidency and all that’s happened since, when I’ve had to ask myself whether I was too tempered in speaking the truth as I saw it.”
—
@BarackObama
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"President Trump...is not likely to casually tempt the impeachment gods. He knows the history here. He will self-regulate."
--Hugh Hewitt, THE FOURTH WAY (published January 24, 2017)
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How Trump described meeting Kim Jong Un (per Woodward):
“You meet a woman. In one second, you know whether or not it’s all going to happen. It doesn’t take you 10 minutes, and it doesn’t take you six weeks. It’s like, whoa. Okay. You know? It takes somewhat less than a second.”
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Risks to the president’s health turn Wednesday’s Pence-Harris debate into a far more significant event than the usual veep undercard.
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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family can at least give thanks that they’re not the Trumps of Queens, N.Y."
My review of TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH by Mary Trump:
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I, for one, would love it if we returned to the president submitting a written State of the Union report to Congress.
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“Yeah, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too...” (Lumberg voice)
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein just arrived at the Department of Justice.
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Nikki Haley has a glowing blurb on the back of Vivek Ramaswamy’s latest book:
“His combination of honesty, intellect, and foresight are exactly what we need to overcome our challenges in the years ahead.”
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“The atrocities our nation is now committing at the border don’t represent an overreaction... to some actual problem that needs solving. There is no immigration crisis; there is no crisis of immigrant crime. No, the real crisis is an upsurge in hatred.”
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I suspect that, when we look back on the totality of the Trump presidency, the fact that the Ukraine scandal was the one thing that got Trump impeached will seem really weird and random
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One weird thing is how you start seeing connections everywhere... for instance, Mary Trump’s book shows how terribly Fred Trump (Donald’s father) treated Freddy (Donald’s older brother). Then a few books later, in Cohen’s book, you see it’s similar to how Donald treats Don Jr.
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When we migrated from Peru to the USA in the mid-70s, Thanksgiving was the tradition we immediately embraced. We loved the family focus, and my parents threw themselves into the history and the food, trying to get everything right. I realize now it made us feel like we belonged.
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This quote is from
@davidfrum
’s 2018 book TRUMPOCRACY, and it’s been on my mind all week
"If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”—David Frum
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Speaking of
@Yamiche
, everyone should be watching the
@NewsHour
every Mon thru Fri. Consistently the best hour of TV news on air. And you get to see
@Yamiche
— plus
@JudyWoodruff
,
@IAmAmnaNawaz
,
@LisaDNews
,
@nickschifrin
, Jeffrey Brown etc — all the time, not just at pressers...
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Read a spectacular review of the book A VERY STABLE GENIUS by my
@washingtonpost
colleagues
@PhilipRucker
and
@CarolLeonnig
:
Another Fake Book by two third rate Washington Post reporters, has already proven to be inaccurately reported, to their great embarrassment, all for the purpose of demeaning and belittling a President who is getting great things done for our Country, at a record clip. Thank you!
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When my family arrived in the U.S. from Peru when I was a kid, Thanksgiving became our favorite American event, more than July 4, baseball or anything. Maybe eating w/ friends & relatives and no agenda but shared gratitude reminded my parents of home, yet felt fully American too.
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Gut reaction to NYT oped:
1) Feeds/confirms Trump's worst fears about the deep state plots
2) Trump will go nuclear, making the efforts of this "internal resistance" far harder
3) What is the point of a secret cabal if you don't keep it secret?
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This NYT piece has every oped cliche possible. Makes me think the writer is an oped pro:
"looms large"
"bitterly divided"
"Don't get me wrong."
"unsung heroes"
"astute observers"
"cold comfort"
"early whispers"
"put it best"
"reaching across the aisle"
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“Where are we going, Bake?” George HW Bush asked, suddenly alert.
“We’re going to heaven,” James Baker replied.
“That’s where I want to go,” Bush said.
13 hours later, Bush had died. Read
@peterbakernyt
on the final days:
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It is altogether unfitting and improper that we do this
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If the context, nature and substance are off, what is left?
Wow: Mueller tells Barr that his depiction of his findings failed to capture “context, nature, and substance” of the special counsel probe. Developing —>
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“Either the government wasn’t thinking at all about how they were going to put these families back together, or they decided they just didn’t care.”
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"A VERY STABLE GENIUS is superbly reported and written with clarity, but it is not an easy read. It is relentless, depressing and ultimately numbing; sort of like being an American citizen these past four years."
Joe Klein reviews the new hot Trump book:
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So true! Unless, of course, you or anyone in your life is affected by immigration policy. Then the policy might matter a little bit? (Sorry if this isn’t “smart.”)
Be smart: Immigration in 2018 isn't about policy; it's about both sides making a cultural argument to turn out their base voters.
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If you read only one book... you really should read more books.
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How to subscribe to the Washington Post:
....In my opinion the Washington Post is nothing more than an expensive (the paper loses a fortune) lobbyist for Amazon. Is it used as protection against antitrust claims which many feel should be brought?
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When I had my green card I lived in terror of losing it and felt I had to protect it with my life. I memorized my alien registration number and kept multiple photocopies of the card. Even turning it in when I became a citizen was scary. Feel awful for the people caught in this...
How the Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones -- by, uhh, literally turning off the printers that print the documents
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NYT editorial against Trump's reelection includes these words:
ruinous
damaged
abused
shattering
unworthy
racism
xenophobia
vandalism
malicious
assault
outrage
unfit
demagogue
lied
crumbling
disinformation
denigration
teargassed
intolerable
violated
peril
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In 1997, H.R. McMaster authored DERELICTION OF DUTY, a damning history of the Vietnam-era military advisers and generals who let themselves be used as props by a duplicitous president.
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The “lowest IQ” thing is vintage Trump logic — only dumb people follow the rules.
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The moment Jared Kushner discovers that governing is HARD
(From “Border Wars”)
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“I think you’ll see by June a lot of the country should be back to normal and the hope is that by July the country’s really rocking again.”
—Jared Kushner, April 29
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So I reviewed the Mary Trump book:
But like with any review, there are things I didn't have space or time to discuss, stuff that is interesting but not vital to include in the review. So I'm going to run through the book and point out some stuff. Thread...
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“What’s the downside for humoring him?”
Remembering this quote today:
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"1984" replacing "Hillbilly Elegy" atop Amazon sales ranking means we're now less concerned with how we got here than with where we're going
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I will never stop being disappointed by people who use the phrase "the best and the brightest" with no evident awareness of the point that book was making.
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“We should note that Pence’s desire to smooth things over is only about two weeks old.”
—totally casual
@jaketapper
burn
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In the middle of the Woodward book, I find a “lodestar” reference attributed to... Wilbur Ross.
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“This is the first time I’ve felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast. It’s hard for me to wrap my head around.”
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My wife has been learning the Irish language for several years now, so she listens to Irish-language news broadcasts every morning. Usually I can understand none of it, except this morning when I distinctly heard two words: “Ted Cruz.”
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My 10 y/o daughter just told me I don’t have to read any more Trump books
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“I’ll write the real book” — just another time the president argues that he is the only real purveyor of truth, that the only person you can believe is him, that all else is fiction.
The Woodward book is a Joke - just another assault against me, in a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. Many have already come forward to say the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction. Dems can’t stand losing. I’ll write the real book!
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*When
@seanspicer
said inaugural crowd was the biggest, he wanted us to believe a specific untruth.
*When
@KellyannePolls
invoked “alternative truths,” it meant we could choose any truth.
*When Giuliani says “truth isn’t truth,” he means there is no truth but Trump’s.
#StepByStep
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“The first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention was a fire hose of false or misleading claim, mostly drawn from President Trump’s arsenal of falsehoods. Here are 19 claims that caught our attention.”
The
@washingtonpost
factcheckers:
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My naturalization ceremony was one of the proudest moments of my life. So much patriotism and emotion in the room. They mentioned all the different countries we came from. We took the oath of allegiance to the US. And President Obama welcomed us in a video.
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@CarolLeonnig
You’d know a lot more about this, but in Strzok’s book I was surprised by what he depicts as a complete breakdown of trust between senior leaders at the FBI and the top levels of the DOJ
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There is an episode of Cheers where Woody was impressed to learn that Frasier was a Rhodes Scholar, and then Woody asks him why they stuff they put in the potholes is darker than the rest of the road.
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Would be kind of remarkable for Joe Biden to both serve as VP for the first black president and then, twelve years later, to serve as president with the first woman as VP.
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CNN’s post-debate coverage last night inspired some artwork in my home during school zoom breaks today. cc:
@jaketapper
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In THIS TOWN,
@MarkLeibovich
explained the proper description for famous people who have been hospitalized:
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My family is a
@TheAtlantic
family. My wife and I read it. My 12 year-old son reads it. We have favorite sections and writers and articles. It is an essential part of our lives and our minds and our conversations. You can subscribe here:
Great News: The boring but very nasty magazine, The Atlantic, is rapidly failing, going down the tubes, and has just been forced to announce it is laying off at least 20% of its staff in order to limp into the future. This is a tough time to be in the Fake News Business!
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The thing is,
@peterbakernyt
&
@sbg1
are former Moscow correspondents with deep experience covering Washington and presidential scandal. They co-wrote a book on Putin and Peter wrote THE book on Clinton’s impeachment trial. No two journalists are better equipped for this moment.
Obama loving (wrote Obama book) Peter Baker of the Failing New York Times, married to an even bigger Trump Hater than himself, should not even be allowed to write about me. Every story is a made up disaster with sources and leakers that don’t even exist. I had a simple and very..
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Same. And same.
I didn't speak English when I immigrated to the United States. Now, I get paid to write in it. Just saying.
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Why are windows always rare?
Why are tales always cautionary?
Why is optimism always cautious?
Why is relief always palpable?
Why are efforts always last-ditch?
Why are militias always rag-tag?
Why are indictments always searing?
Why are press conferences always hastily convened?
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My kids tell me to get breakfast done. They don’t tell me, “go make breakfast.”
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I’ve been reading or read-reading lots of the books about the Trump White House and one things running through them is the consistently terrible instincts and awful advice emanating from Jared Kushner...
Trump is reportedly waiting on whether to make an emergency declaration until Jared Kushner "finishes his research and comes to a conclusion himself"
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How to subscribe to the Washington Post:
How to subscribe to the New York Times:
The Washington Post and New York Times are, in my opinion, two of the most dishonest media outlets around. Truly, the Enemy of the People!
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First, Mary Trump is funny! She captures people in quick, memorable descriptions. On seeing the VP in the WH, for instance:
"Mike Pence continued to lurk on the other side of the room with a half-dead smile on his face, like the chaperone everybody wanted to avoid." (2)
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"MOBILE, Ala. — The city stands."
What a lede. And the picture, my god.
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Can't believe I just noticed: The barcode strip on my copy of Trump's ART OF THE DEAL identifies it as "fiction."
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I couldn't stand everyone else having all the fun, so I read and reviewed the Mueller Report:
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“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
—a prophetic passage in TRUMPOCRACY by
@davidfrum
BREAKING: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed lame-duck legislation that will scale back the authority of his Democratic successor — approving the entire legislation without vetoes.
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“If President Trump proves reckless, he will be impeached, tried, and removed. If President Trump is proven corrupt, he will be impeached, tried, and removed. If President Trump abuses power, he will be impeached, tried, and removed.”
-Hugh Hewitt, THE FOURTH WAY (2017)
The D’s “Karlan catastrophe” is not that it was mean, undignified or a display of boiling rage. It was all that...and more. It was thoroughly authentic, revealing in a split second the venom infusing the hearings and underscoring how little they have to do w/ other than
#TDS
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All militias are ragtag
All rules are byzantine
All issues are hot-button
All arrays are dizzying
All speculation is fevered
All indictments are searing
All lobbyists are well-heeled
All lawns are manicured
All criticism is withering
All heroes are unsung
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I didn’t realize this whole thing was over and elected officials had time to write books and reflect on it now
New: Gov. Cuomo on Oct. 13 will publish a book on the pandemic, “American Crisis”
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“Lock her up” and “send her back” have a single word in common and it’s no coincidence.
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This has the feel of a news clip that will be played again and again in the histories and documentaries of this crisis. In part because of it simplicity and directness, and in part because the answer to
@jaketapper
’s final question seems blindingly clear:
.
@jaketapper
directly addresses Pres. Trump: “The American people ... need someone to explain what is going to be done to get us out of this. It’s a moment that requires leadership. It requires honest information. It requires empathy and it requires a plan. Do you have one?”
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