Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @BCAppelbaum: "What is happening right now is nothing like the 1970s. Now please excuse me while I confer with Henry Kissinger." https:/… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @dhnexon: Yep. By @mattyglesias https://t.co/O8kWv48vbh https://t.co/UZoRNOMq3a — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@BrendanNyhan Every time I think I have lost my capacity to be shocked — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Americans will literally be informed on the dealings of the US government by Russian spokespeople. https://t.co/Zr9tQwgAKu — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @abuaardvark: Why do some rebel groups succeed?I talk with Peter Krause about his new book on this week's podcast https://t.co/rTTzjQiBK1 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

How South Korea, not France, became this week's most important election https://t.co/2UHUANHzOD — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @BrendanNyhan: What would you say if you saw this in another country? https://t.co/IFqdymg0gz — PolitiTweet.org

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@evanchill can always count on you evan — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I finished writing this just as Comey was fired, in case you’d like to become one of the 15 people who will read it. https://t.co/8HxPgIlQNV — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. https://t.co/YuPmm2JYd5 — PolitiTweet.org

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It's worth dwelling on severity of our breakdown in democratic norms. Automatically assumed partisan expediency sup… https://t.co/5AjFnDPtJ2 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

there is a real shift underway in korea https://t.co/zRoQqK2Xh1 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@BrendanNyhan Yeah, to be clear, I don’t have a better system. We all know that Churchill quote. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@BrendanNyhan in retrospect, basing governance of 320M on unstated mutual acceptance of fuzzy unwritten norms, over… https://t.co/398HmnDKSw — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @BrendanNyhan: Again, many overestimate the role of rules as checks on power - we depend on respect for norms like not interfering in in… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Hasn’t been an issue here, but I can think of a few countries where the census has been heavily politicized. Sudan,… https://t.co/HjCPseZKDG — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

This really supports the theory that he is just acting minute-to-minute with little awareness of how his actions lo… https://t.co/UMnmNB6CWZ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @existentialfish: Jeff Sessions in November on Fox News: "FBI Director Comey did the right thing when he found new evidence. He had no c… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: When Trump was caught confessing to routine sexual assault it was the last straw for many Republicans for about five to t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EricLiptonNYT: Chances Congress-under control of same party POTUS-ever agrees to seriously investigate this? Abt as high as a serious R… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

who can predict anything anymore, but i suspect we may look back on today as awfully significant https://t.co/QZEAMtBbLR — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I know, I was also surprised to learn that rule of law and partisan politics are different things, it’s crazy https://t.co/cvd9ezgS7T — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@DKThomp it’s almost as if both complaints shared concern for rule of law rather than partisan gain, a distinction… https://t.co/tpmEBrcbY9 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @nytmike: WH and DOJ had been working on firing Comey since at least last week. Sessions had been working to come up with reasons. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ditzkoff: So tired of these reboots. https://t.co/GcfhfMnnj9 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dtsmith_sydney: From Rob Mickey, Lucan Way and Steve Levitsky, "Is America Still Safe For Democracy?" https://t.co/cYPygY7OeW https://t… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

That’s a norm, not a rule. So it’s not procedurally enforceable or even really measurable. But boy does it ever matter. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

In a democracy, undermining an independent institution that checks executive power is supposed to be done only under extreme circumstances. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Worth re-reading Levitsky and Ziblatt, who study democratic backsliding. Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy? https://t.co/YQXqyfMYxG — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

this is one of those rules vs norms moments you sometimes face in a democracy — PolitiTweet.org