David Frum

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@jacobin Like every Mexican official who shows loyalty to the law above the president, officials of the election body have lived with unceasing violent threat. To suggest that they are lolling on immense and unjustified salaries is unfair and wrong. 9/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@jacobin But the failure of the salary purge did leave behind the talking point: senior people at the INE do now earn more than the president. It's not princely - salaries top out at about $150,000 US per year - but it's enough to attract competent people who will live on their pay. 8/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@jacobin A question raised by AMLO's actions: did they apply to constitutionally autonomous bodies like the Bank of Mexico and the electoral institute? The Mexican Supreme Court ultimately ruled that those institutions were exempt. Result: they escaped the president's attempted purge 7/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@jacobin The result of this abrupt unilateral salary cut across the top of the civil service was just what you might predict: the competent and honest managers quit because they lived on their salaries and had options elsewhere. The dishonest and incompetent stayed. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@jacobin But the salary cut worked to concentrate power in the president's hands. Mexico has a law forbidding government employees to be paid more than the president. So when AMLO cut his salary by 60%, he also dramatically cut the salaries of most senior civil servants. 5/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@jacobin That was maybe a less self-sacrificing gesture than it seemed. Even after the salary cut, President Lopez Obrador's family continues to live lavishly in the United States. https://t.co/6rYiToGZda 4/x https://t.co/4mfIi5jrEf — PolitiTweet.org

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@jacobin At the beginning of his presidency, Lopez Obrador cut the president's pay by 60% to about 5700 US $ per month. https://t.co/VYHwhyMV7u 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

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@jacobin The first point is a frequent talking point from AMLO defenders: that senior staff at the independent election authority earned salaries higher than the Mexican president's. That's true, but seriously misleading, for the following reason: 2/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Somebody had to write the English-language defense of Mexican president Lopez Obrador's attack on free and fair elections. @jacobin steps up here. The piece raises 2 points important to answer https://t.co/JK2GlUXPiK — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidLeopold: @GOP And 86.3% of it was seized from US citizens, not asylum seekers https://t.co/WQPcdJoRj0 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @observingjapan: The @CDP2017 has introduced a bill in the Diet to legalize same-sex marriage in Japan. Not going to pass, but the party… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lorenzocordovav: En los próximos días, promoveremos una controversia constitucional para que la SCJN decida si son constitucionales, ta… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Nadav_Eyal: 19/ It is a small yet comforting thought that history will not record us as passive individuals who idly stood by as our li… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Nadav_Eyal: 10/ This is relevant to the present moment, as between 200 and 400 thousand people have taken to the streets for the past n… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Nadav_Eyal: 6/ However, Israel enjoys the privilege of its history. As a young democracy, it has no history of authoritarian rule. The… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Nadav_Eyal: 3/ of the Supreme Court to carry out judicial review, alter the status of legal advisors to government ministries. These me… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Nadav_Eyal: 2/The government appears to be fully committed to implementing a comprehensive judicial overhaul similar to those already c… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MoranStern: A guide for the perplexed over the current situation in Israel. Concise and informative by @Nadav_Eyal — PolitiTweet.org

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Depression is a master illness behind addiction, obesity, even many accidents - and of course intentional self-harm and suicide. We're probably way under-diagnosing it. Time to write this terrible disease into the center of the human story - my theme here https://t.co/fPdkEaidHU — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FareedZakaria: Part 2 of my exclusive interview with German @Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz, from today's show: the state of the broad chan… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FareedZakaria: Part 1 of my exclusive interview with German @Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz, from today's GPS: his impression of Pres. Biden… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Femsplainers: Are men ALWAYS to blame? For #WomensHistoryMonth2023 month, @davidfrum argues there may be other causes for women's thwa… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DCrittenden1: Very useful to have an in-house writer (who even takes out the garbage!). Don't miss @davidfrum's wonderful and empatheti… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: At CPAC, Donald Trump repeatedly painted himself as a martyr, a tragic hero still hoping for redemption, @JohnGHendy write… — PolitiTweet.org

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A lot of the agita about "ESG" is really about pro-oil politicians trying to override oil investors' business judgment about the declining future of the oil industry — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EliotACohen: For many years I mourned the passing of Encounter, a wonderful journal of culture and ideas. At last, something to fill t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MaxKennerly: Can't believe the business model of "suppress genuinely popular content by elevating right-wing extremism instead" isn't w… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DarthPutinKGB: OTD in 1940, as part of "protecting them from fascism", Stalin signed the order to murder 22,000 Polish officers in Katy… — PolitiTweet.org