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RT @davidsirota: I offered two thoughts to @AnandWrites for his new piece in @TheAtlantic: 1. Biden has not yet tried to challenge power… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @briebriejoy: It’s me. I’m not satisfied ☺️ https://t.co/skIncP2IjN — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dayedreamy: “I don’t think you can go through an experience where 500,000-plus people lose their lives and everybody has their life tur… — PolitiTweet.org

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The era of believing in government is back. I talked with @kai_wright about that on #USofAnxiety. https://t.co/bVpJnQyL5y — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MarkLevineNYC: For the first time in 4 months, vax appts in NYC are not being immediately filled. Some people gave up trying to book b… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nhannahjones: This is a rare opportunity. Very few reporting internships put you on investigative teams, and certainly not on some of t… — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the strange turns in our culture is how “I have a different view of this, and here it is” has been replaced by “This shouldn’t have been written.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@FullMoonHair @ratemyskyperoom I'll take it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Shout-outs to the great team at @TheAtlantic for the editing, fact-checking, art, and more. Honor Jones, @YAppelbaum, @JeffreyGoldberg, @morganhikaru, @amymacestack, @adammmmaida, and others. — PolitiTweet.org

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With a historically moderate president and an ascendant progressive movement at his back and at his throat, what lies ahead, perhaps, is the “make-me-do-it” presidency, where activists lead the charge. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarisaKabas https://t.co/TnxhHekAHx — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SunriseBmore: “the administration understands that we are not willing to be taken for granted anymore,” @IlhanMN told @AnandWrites. Mo… — PolitiTweet.org

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Looking forward to driving the rickshaw to meetings when the pandemic is finally behind us. — PolitiTweet.org

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I understand the mental state of the country right now, and that we tend to read for dunks and swats, not understanding. I am guilty of that myself oftentimes. So I really tried to listen to all kinds of people for this report, and I hope you will, too. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe he will lead the parade into a new era, not because this has always been his crusade, but precisely because it hasn’t—because he, like much of the country, bought into the old assumptions, and he, like much of the country, now doesn’t. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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I do think a new era is here, and not because Joe Biden happens to be president, but because certain ideas have been thoroughly discredited and new ideas have risen and activists have made demands for real change unignorable. What remains to be seen is how Biden embraces it all. — PolitiTweet.org

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There is no dearth of irony in the fact that Joe Biden, who voted for the Reaganomics package in 1981, seems more interested than his Democratic predecessors in breaking out of the assumptions of the Reagan era. I asked one of his longest-serving advisers about it. https://t.co/x7DrRk8nqz — PolitiTweet.org

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I heard real hope from moderates and progressives and everyone in between that 2021 will break not just from 2017 or 2009 but from 1981, and the dawn of the age of Reagan and, with it, the idea that government is the problem. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidsirota Here's where the reporting landed me. These early policies, on their own, don't mark the break with the past that I describe. What makes me think we're on the brink of a new progressive era is the ship of conventional wisdom turning dramatically. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk https://t.co/V376VjTDbQ — PolitiTweet.org

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.@davidsirota told me the true test will come when Biden gets into conflict with corporate power: “There’s an open question of how much do you think you can change American society without actually confronting the relationship between labor and capital." https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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"Joe Biden wants to cosplay as FDR," @briebriejoy told me, "but is not willing to actually create a structural intervention that made FDR a four-term president.” It is a reminder that, as @ddayen notes here, crisis relief is easier than transformation. https://t.co/Qgs2v1ZX2J — PolitiTweet.org

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But not everyone in the big tent is satisfied, far from it. And I talked to them, too. @briebriejoy made an eloquent case against progressive capitulation: "Choosing to fold every single time is how we got into the neoliberal hellscape that we’re living in right now," she said. — PolitiTweet.org

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Being less of a star than Clinton and Obama, Biden is almost like a prime minister of a coalition government in a parliamentary system, where his desired policy course is the one he can get his coalition to agree on. This gives more radical voices a say. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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The other is that Biden is a different model of Democratic president. As @matthewstoller put it to me, he is "a transactional machine Democrat who wants to draw from every faction of the party as a coalition-building strategy." https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk https://t.co/2l2FEkI4tH — PolitiTweet.org

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One explanation is that he is a fingertip politician, seldom three miles ahead of public opinion, but willing to go where activists and radical voices pressure him to. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk https://t.co/IA5mZFCgUy — PolitiTweet.org

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I also dug into the kind of leader Biden is, and how his style has allowed him to absorb increasingly popular progressive ideas without seeming to abandon his own precepts. I heard two major explanations from people... https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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Another thing I heard a lot was that real lessons have been learned from the failures and limitations of the Clinton and Obama years. In particular, there is a new fear of doing too little, replacing the older fears of doing too much. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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I reached out to @LHSummers to ask why Wall Street-associated economists and banker types were being listened to less. He tried to dodge the question, but basically said, "The world has changed." https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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“The $1.9 trillion package that they put forth was a surprise,” @IlhanMN told me. “A lot of us made recommendations when the administration was in their transition space, and I don’t think a lot of us expected many of those things would make it in.” https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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@ddayen Yup! As I say in the piece, if you read it, it's early days, and lots of open questions. I'm still watching. — PolitiTweet.org