David Frum

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RT @BenjySarlin: This is the other side that feeds the dynamic in this thread. Trump world has a well-established amnesty process for anti-… — PolitiTweet.org

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Russia preparing for more total war: more hardship for civilians at home, more repression of dissent, widening aggression against more numerous targets. Interesting thread — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonathanchait: Is it a crime to love democracy TOO much? https://t.co/vtzi0kVZnP — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TimNaftali: The hockey great Guy Lafleur has died. He was a brilliant, elegant scorer who was key to the Canadiens’ dynasty of the 1970… — PolitiTweet.org

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The fascinating stream of often vitriolic replies to the above question only confirms: There are a disturbing number of Modi supporters who define "India" to exclude at least 500 years of its history and 20% or more of its people. — PolitiTweet.org

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Florida votes 2020 interactive map https://t.co/z9yJMDXDFp — PolitiTweet.org

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Orange County, Florida voted 61% for Biden in 2020. Osceola County voted 56% for Biden. So jacking up Orange & Osceola property taxes by 25% in order to punish Disney may seem to Gov De Santis not as a bug in his schemes of partisan retaliation, but as an additional feature. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Steven_Swinford: Breaking: Britain will supply Poland with tanks so it can send T72s to Ukraine, Boris Johnson announces It represent… — PolitiTweet.org

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Details on the local impact of Gov DeSantis retaliation vs Disney — PolitiTweet.org

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I think my version is more on-point and convincing actually. https://t.co/wrj3E5DcEK — PolitiTweet.org

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"That audio recording of my own exact words in my own voice is totally false and wrong. Only the biased liberal media would report on what I said, rather than relying on what my PR team says I said. To play my own words in my own voice to a TV audience is fake news at its worst." — PolitiTweet.org

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No party leader in American history has had to disavow as many of his own audio-recorded words as Kevin McCarthy, dating back at least to 2016 https://t.co/qEo3RuROy7 https://t.co/R8wf85sUFt — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump's refusal to defend NATO allies? Yes, that did indeed get out. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @whignewtons: Wow! LA Times endorses a Republican. “Many Californians will balk at the idea of voting for a Republican…But one way to re… — PolitiTweet.org

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@raushenbush Yes fair point. I was simplifying ... — PolitiTweet.org

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PS to put the above in perspective. There's a lot of uncertainty about the size of the gay market in the US. But if you go with a conservative estimate of $830 billion https://t.co/9sqoTztMl6 then the US gay market is 14% bigger than the economy of Ohio. https://t.co/oCwmNkiIzh — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Reuters: Drawn by rumors on social media, queues of hopeful men have been forming outside the Russian embassy in Ethiopia's capital Add… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PhillipsPOBrien: Finally! An air war thread about Ukraine by someone who really knows their stuff and has already shown a keen eye duri… — PolitiTweet.org

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In the 1920s, conservative and rural America used its clout to impose alcohol prohibition on liberal and urban America. In the 2020s, the issues are different, but the political practice is the same. As for how whether the outcome also repeats itself - we'll soon see. END — PolitiTweet.org

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So it's a good guess that until social/economic power in America comes more into line with control over state legislatures - we're going to see more and more state retaliation against companies that try to please their customers and employees - but offend the government 10/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@walterolson ... socially conservative constituencies wield great political power, especially at the state level, even as they wield dwindling economic and cultural power. Once, social conservatives could credibly threaten consumer boycotts. Today it's government retaliation - or nothing 9/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@walterolson But it does seem we're entering an important new chapter in government retaliation against business expression, because of a profound power shift ... 8/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@walterolson Alternatively, Disney is surely hearing a great deal of advice about how big a payoff to which Republican officeholders and lobbyists will buy peace. So the story could well end in a flurry of check-writing to predatory Florida Republican politicians and their allies. 7/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@walterolson Some are suggesting that the retaliation may fail for technical reasons, Florida's particular rules for dissolving a business improvement district. So this story may end in litigation that Disney wins. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@walterolson Olson chronicles many vendettas by local officials against local businesses. But - Trump/Amazon aside - it really seems new that a state executive and state legislature would avowedly and publicly combine against a company to punish it for purely expressive activity. 5/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@walterolson But in the anti-Amazon retaliation, there was at least some saving uncertainty about what exactly had happened and why. In the Disney case, there is no ambiguity. A company spoke against the government, and the company was punished for it - on a huge scale. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@walterolson A lot more money was at stake when the Trump administration possibly retaliated against Amazon for Jeff Bezos' ownership of the Washington Post ... 3/x https://t.co/rZV81rCMI6 — PolitiTweet.org

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@walterolson Acknowledging that there are a lot of dirty hands in this tradition, it's still true that the DeSantis administration's explicit retaliation against Disney marks a dramatic new chapter in an ugly long story. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

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.@walterolson is chronicling the long inglorious tradition of American politicians retaliating against businesses for expressing unwanted opinions ... 1/x — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PhillipsPOBrien: Stat of the day that I wasn’t expecting. Russian tank losses have been so high and Ukrainian so low, (and the Ukrainia… — PolitiTweet.org