Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Then and now Kudlow appreciated the power of the ruling class. — PolitiTweet.org

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Kudos to the Post-Dispatch and @jeremykohler for this great piece. But as you read it, you realize that Donald Trump's loathsome values are shared by others with money. I wonder if they too secretly worship at the shrine of Roy Cohn. — PolitiTweet.org

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Who would have bet on Election Night 2016 that aggressive prison reform (see Flynn, Michael and Stone, Roger) would be the centerpiece of the Trump presidency. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JRubinBlogger Actually, it was four too many zeroes. — PolitiTweet.org

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Odds on Trump sink to near zero with this news: Jared Kushner is in charge. "Brad Parscale...has 'been sort of pushed aside' and has resumed his narrower 2016 role, running the data operation while Kushner oversees strategy, one campaign official said." https://t.co/XWCmNfgcqj — PolitiTweet.org

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Very smart piece by @JeanBordewich on how a massive presidential inauguration, with crowds on the Mall and balls in the evening, are not appropriate to January 2021. All that is really needed is a swearing and a speech by Joe Biden (my prediction). https://t.co/vCYPWKagr7 — PolitiTweet.org

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The 400,000 people who were planning to attend must be bitterly disappointed. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kennerly: Brilliant piece by a real reporter about a real reporter. Thanks @DanBarryNYT https://t.co/JlSEWi6ncE — PolitiTweet.org

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The standard mental test includes counting down from 100 by seven, drawing a clock face set to a specific time and remembering three words for five minutes. Yes, the doctors were so impressed and startled that Trump passed it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ThorThorThor111 That's why I offered the initial caveat. I didn't know much about her. Still, it's a good Op-Ed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Margoandhow But, of course. I didn't have enough room in the original tweet to say that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Trump asks me in an email: "How do you want to be remembered? As a Patriot who fought to Keep America Great? Or as an un-American Liberal who stood idly by as Radical Democrats ripped our Nation apart?" To reprise a classic Jack Benny joke, "I'm thinking. I'm thinking." — PolitiTweet.org

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@DemFromCT I'm not an epidemiologist, nor do I play one on TV, but based on what I've read and seen in NY, a total lockdown is the only thing that works when things get as bad as they are in Texas. I wish there were a halfway answer, but I don't think there is. — PolitiTweet.org

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Only Democrats get COVID-19 along with some other people who just aren't warriors. — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't know much about Betsy Hodges record as a former mayor of Minneapolis. But her piece on the hypocrisy of white urban liberals when it comes to the police is one of the most provocative pieces I have read this week. I recommend it. https://t.co/zEyFGxEaCC — PolitiTweet.org

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@sherean @neal_katyal @chenx064 I'm not a legal scholar and, in fact, I don't even play one on TV. But I think the principle that Trump isn't above the law is far more important than whether or not the tax returns actually are released before the election. — PolitiTweet.org

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@laura_lrnzo Now you tell me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@laura_lrnzo Reverend Wright is also on target. Such a major factor in deciding whom to vote for in 2012. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman Of course, it's better to know. What I was suggesting is that exclusively as a campaign issue, it doesn't matter that much if the taxes come out in September or next March. As a good-government issue, the release would be major and it might also explain a lot of Trump's record. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump taxes were a 2016 campaign issue. There are so many other reasons to oppose Trump based on his record in office. It was like the obsession with George W. Bush’s National Guard service in 2004. It got Dan Rather fired but it was beyond its shelf date. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mtomasky: That we won't see the taxes before Nov isn't really what matters politically. What matters is now, Dems can say "even Roberts… — PolitiTweet.org

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Luckily, the airlines do not need federal bailouts so these policies are beyond the reach of legislation. Oh, wait, they do need federal bailouts and Congress has not mandated anything like social distancing in the air. — PolitiTweet.org

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That piece by Judd Gregg would embarrass the slightly sane wing of the lunatic fringe. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SeanTrende Historically, it is telling that no Democratic nominee after JFK in 1960 until Dukakis in 1988 had an Ivy League degree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kkondik As you know, it's Daines who's behind right now and not Bullock as you accidentally wrote. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RachelBitecofer That this debate over a letter -- and who signed it and who attacked them for signing it and why they signed it and why they attacked them -- is dominating Twitter and made the front page of today's Times is a depressing sign that we have forgotten that Trump is on the ballot. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JournalYear @RachelBitecofer Since I wrote the original tweet, there doesn't seem to be any effort to get him on the ballot. And ballot deadlines are fast approaching. So don't worry much. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JournalYear The theory which I got from @RachelBitecofer is that all third-party candidates take votes away from Biden because they give anti-Trump voters another alternative. That was the big message from Jill Stein and Gary Johnson as spoilers in 2016. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nicolegelinas Of course, a monthly parking space in my neighborhood on the Upper West Side costs about double what it costs to lease a Lexus. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mcpli Beyond SCOTUS, I just love the screen picture from perhaps the greatest event of lockdown -- the Zoom 90th birthday celebration for Stephen Sondheim. Particularly Meryl Streep joining in a group version of "Ladies Who Lunch." — PolitiTweet.org