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David Frum @davidfrum
RT @NGrossman81: Yes, it's pathetically desperate to try to excuse Trump's crimes with whatabout Hunter Biden. Two wrongs don't make a righ… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Betas everywhere Just got this fundraising email supposedly from Mike Pompeo https://t.co/yGoKGjcq6M — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
PS My friend meant "Liz Cheney." — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
... should be as realistic as DeSantis. Trump's base is not reforming. That base's control of the wider GOP coalition is not weakening. US democracy is not recovering. The dangers ahead are not diminishing. END. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
It's shocking that so many would excuse literally anything to protect Trump. But they do. DeSantis is accommodating himself to that reality, playing Mar a Lago beta to ingratiate himself with the likely top of the '24 GOP ticket. Those who would defend US democracy ... 13/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
... But it is to say that any hopes that the country was returning to democratic stability after Trump look (again) misplaced and over-optimistic. I wanted to hold those hopes, I tried to hold those hopes, but my hopes are dimming this week. 12/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Again, this is not to endorse letting Trump off the hook. An ex-president doesn't deserve impunity for crimes just because he leads an anti-democratic faction who will capsize democracy rather than accept accountability for their leader's misdeeds. But ... 11/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Instead, it looks like the country has been plunged back into the thicket of Trumpist autocracy. Trump controls a majority of the support within the minority party. Anti-democracy is his only route to power - and theirs. 10/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Others disagree, but in my opinion, a DeSantis GOP nomination in 2024 represented a much better outcome for the whole country than a Trump return. Maybe you don't like DeSantis's manner or record, but he's a recognizably normal US politician. If defeated, he'd go peacefully. 9/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
None of this is to endorse the proposition that DoJ and FBI should have ignored this latest Trump outrage. US secrets are important. But doing the right thing w/r/t to Trump is seldom cost-free. 8/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
See also the coverage on Fox News. They spent much of 2022 trying to ignore Trump and showcase DeSantis. Now it's Trump adulation and justification all over again. And every right-wing and pseudo left-wing talker who aspires to Fox airtime has had to follow along. 7/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
... because DeSantis has to keep alive the likelihood that he may be competing for position as Trump's running mate in 2024 rather than the nominee. I am sure DeSantis hates that reality, but he is already accommodating to it - as are, apparently, the DeSantis mega-donors. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
This political reality clarifies many mysteries, including why Gov DeSantis has been so outspoken on Trump's behalf. DeSantis could have refused comment: "ongoing legal proceeding." That would have been the alpha move. DeSantis was constrained to act the beta instead, because 5/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
My friend added: "Maybe that doesn’t hold, but maybe it shockingly does. I don’t see in fact how anyone other than Lynne Cheney can even announce against Trump much less defeat him. It's just pointless. Unless all charges are dropped, in which case Trump looks vindicated." 4/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
My friend's observation: "Among the Republicans I know and have polled, a majority of them were for DeSantis and now all for Trump, almost no matter what comes out. Maybe that doesn’t hold, but maybe it shockingly does. ..." 3/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
If anything, the latest Trump scandal has strengthened Trump's hold, not only on his core support, but on the broader GOP. A friend tightly connected to major GOP donors wrote me over the weekend about this. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Unwelcome but important fact to face Trump absconding with the country's highest secrets - storing them unsafely - and then lying about returning them - SHOULD have upset his supposedly patriotic supporters. It didn't. If anything ... 1/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @charlie_savage: NYT lawyer @davidmccraw reminds me of this line from a 2018 2nd Circuit opinion in a FOIA lawsuit the NYT lost. We cont… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
On India's 75th anniversary of independence @kapskom reminds of the country's best heritage - and newest dangers in his "Malevolent Republic" https://t.co/ObFWR5bpwK — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @JeffreyGoldberg: "Moldovans have fought hard to make their country a European democracy. And probably no one has fought harder than the… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @biannagolodryga: “Mr. Bolton, who served as Mr. Trump’s third national security adviser over 17 months, said he had never heard of the… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @jonswaine: Trump's Fox News interview inside Lincoln Memorial: Scratches + gouges left in marble floor. Nearly $150,000 spent on Park S… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @TimothyNoah1: Jack Shafer on the Lie Economy. Lying is more lucrative than truth-telling, and outrageous lies pay better than moderate… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Trump legal reasoning: The more contradictory your explanations are, the more innocent you must be. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @charlie_savage: The top lawyer at the National Security Agency during Trump's presidency says Trump's latest defense - claiming he had… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @IlvesToomas: Thread 👇🏻 — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @benjaminhaddad: According to polls, 75% of all Germans want to continue the operations of Germany's remaining nuclear power plants, 41%… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @renato_mariotti: 9/ That is similar to what happened here. The Feds repeatedly told Trump and his team that the documents were classif… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @renato_mariotti: 6/ If you or I had 21 boxes of classified information, the Feds wouldn't ask for it politely. Ironically, by treatin… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @renato_mariotti: 5/ It is also apparent that the government initially treated Trump with kid gloves. The National Archives negotiated… — PolitiTweet.org
