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Remember, Trump's base doesn't hate rich people. It doesn't care about income inequality. It really doesn't even care that much about taxes or the cost of living. It cares about
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There are many people in American politics I can imagine would attract cults: War heroes, charismatic speakers, people with compelling stories. The idea that a cult would form around a
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Counterpoint to this thread from @LizMair: I get the argument, and understand. If you wipe out the GOP, and all that's left is Tom Cotton, then you have Tom Cotton's
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Yes, I read the Bret Stephens piece. Ho hum. Yes, the intolerant left is a threat. Stipulated. However, I have excoriated people on the left for most of my career.
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A brief meditation on tweets like this. When someone says "You should leave off 'I wasn't his biggest fan'," my thought is: Write your own goddamn tweets and don't try
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So, aside from the fact that the former head of DIA was a security risk (not only by his sympathies for the Russians, but by lying and thus putting himself
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I take seriously the arguments of well-intentioned critics who link the forgiveness of Trump among his otherwise masculinity-obsessed base with race and wish I'd said more about it. That's a
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Folks, I don't think the "start testing nukes" crap is coming from Trump. I know we love the explanation that he wants to play with "the nuclear," but always remember
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A Sunday night thread about a curious thing. Four years ago, MAGA Nation said "Just you wait! You'll get yours! When Trump is in, he'll change it all!" Now we're
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Quote-tweeting my answer to @GerLuongo not as criticism, but because my answer to her is to everyone:Do not engage your Fox-watching relatives on this. There is no convincing them, because
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Having read threads from @davidfrum and @KeithNHumphreys respectively about the right-wing virtue signaling of not wearing masks and the political/cultural challenges of getting Americans to act like civic-minded adults, there's
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A quick Cold War related observation about Tom Cotton and his thing about Chinese students: There's a reason the USSR didn't want its students studying in the United States or
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