David Frum

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Hours-long rampage through a state where virtually any adult can carry virtually any firearm without even a permit. So much for the claim that good guys with guns can stop a determined killer. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @conorsen: Biggest weekly drop yet in ocean freight rates, -14%. This chart is really something now: https://t.co/LAs2AuvqoS — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lachlan: Trump's Justice Department operated exactly how you'd think it did, per a new book from former US Attorney Geoffrey Berman htt… — PolitiTweet.org

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Useful rejoinder to so-called Effective Altruism by @Docstockk: a moral approach for people "driven by emotion, but [who] don’t know they are" https://t.co/bMhfnyDktD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @UaNews_online: Traces of Torture on Body of British Aid Worker Held by Russians https://t.co/aIAFb1Nvxl — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Patterico: I was able to read @allahpundit's writing today. All is once again right with the world! As a celebration of his joining @th… — PolitiTweet.org

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Faliero not Falieri ... — PolitiTweet.org

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But the Venetians do teach: it's not necessary to obliterate the memory of past wrongdoing to eschew honoring the memory of the wrongdoer. END — PolitiTweet.org

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But the Venetians do teach: it's not necessary to obliterate the memory of past wrongdoing to avoid honoring the memory of the wrongdoer. END — PolitiTweet.org

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"Here is the place of Marino Falieri, beheaded for his crimes." Americans thankfully don't go in for beheading. And Trump is of course entitled to due process before any judgment, whatever it is. 12/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Their solution: in the place where the portraits of the other doges are displayed, the expected portrait of Falieri is replaced by a black curtain. The Latin phrase atop the curtain reads ... 11/x https://t.co/UTpUmMqKpE — PolitiTweet.org

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In 1354, then-doge Marino Falieri organized a coup d'etat to overthrow the Venetian republic and install himself as some kind of autocrat or monarch. The coup failed. Venetians were faced with the same problem of memory that Americans face with Trump. 10/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Portraits of most of the doges hang overhead in the grandest chamber of the ducal palace on St Mark's Square. The portraits are fictionalized of course, nobody really knows what the early doges looked like. But they are almost all represented. Except for one ... 9/x — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the few republics to last even longer than the United States had to confront this problem. The republic of Venice endured for some 1100 years. Its chief magistrate was called a "doge." Portraits of most of the doges ... 8/x — PolitiTweet.org

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But what happens if you have a past president who literally tried to overthrow the Constitution by force and violence? If the Constitution is deeper than politics - then surely there's something deeper than politics in condemning a violent attempt to destroy the Constitution? 7/x — PolitiTweet.org

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It's worth taking the few minutes to watch and listen to Obama's and Bush's speeches that day. Whether you supported one president or the other, or neither, or both, the video will touch something in you, make you prouder of this country's deep constitutional continuity. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org

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... over the past decades, current presidents have made a point of welcoming recent predecessors back to the White House. It's a lovely custom, an expression of a unity deeper than politics, seldom better expressed than by Obama to W. Bush 5/x https://t.co/JvPHf4yrFm — PolitiTweet.org

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There's no rule or custom or practice that every single past president must be represented in every single future president's White House. On the other hand ... 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

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In one way, Trump himself made the problem easier. He signed a law in 2018 prohibiting the use of public funds for presidential portraits. The eventual Trump portrait, if ever painted, will be a purely private matter. 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

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In some ways, the problem is not as hard as it sounds. It's entirely up to the current president which (if any) portraits are to hang in the White House and where. There's no obligation to hang all the portraits, that's what the National Portrait Gallery is for. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

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The unveiling today of the Obama official portraits at the White House opens an awkward question: what is to be done about a Trump portrait? Thread ... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bluebonnetbunny: Mar-A-Lago hires about 90 foreign workers every year. Any intelligence service that doesn't have someone there, isn't… — PolitiTweet.org

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Pre-Abe PMs averaged less than a year each in power. Says something that the Japanese voter rewarded Abe again & again — PolitiTweet.org

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Especially his willingness to test unorthodox economics to blast Japan out of economic stagantion — PolitiTweet.org

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I am learning so much from https://t.co/GjL9s8vIUy biography of Shinzo Abe https://t.co/gHI60PooYu https://t.co/hr6W9ssf0p — PolitiTweet.org

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Why doesn't this man have his own show? — PolitiTweet.org

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Just imagine the conversation Republican donors will have amongst themselves if the party fails to capture the US Senate in 2022 because Trump forced so many MAGA weirdoes into otherwise winnable races — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JimmySecUK: And note that Zelensky's first instinct was to ask Macron and others to speak to Putin in order to try and end the war via… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JimmySecUK: Some pretty incredible footage of Macron talking to Zelensky on the morning of the invasion, when the scale of the full-sca… — PolitiTweet.org

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The worse Republicans do in 22, the faster the tide of what Biden calls "semi-fascism" will recede. So the question arises, what can a presidential speech do to mobilize and motivate the anti-MAGA majority to vote down the "semi-fascists"? Thread follows — PolitiTweet.org