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Thu Dec 09 17:32:07 +0000 2021

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Russian Embassy in USA @benjaminwittes

or have similar views to mine about marginal tax rates. I ask only that they understand the crisis of democracy as our central collective challenge and are as willing to overlook my ideological deviations from their orthodoxies as I am theirs from mine. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 9, 2021

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Russian Embassy in USA @benjaminwittes

For those to whom the point is not obvious, my tweet thread is a simple statement that all of those who oppose authoritarianism and support democracy, at home and abroad, are my allies. I do not ask whether they were right on the Iraq war, share my views of domestic social issues — PolitiTweet.org

Barbara Edelman @edelman_barbara

@benjaminwittes I understand your tweet was a reference to Bob Dole and not…Trump et al.

Posted Dec. 9, 2021

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Completely agree. And yet, who would give such a speech today? — PolitiTweet.org

Philip Gourevitch @PGourevitch

@benjaminwittes Such forgiving magnanimous speech is always more easily said & done after the opposing figure or fo… https://t.co/IUkSw…

Posted Dec. 9, 2021

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