THE PERSUADERS by Anand Giridharadas

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"I don’t think Obama really understood the lengths to which those guys would go to keep him from succeeding,” @WhipClyburn told me about the Republicans. “And I just think that Joe Biden is not going to make that mistake.” https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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Another thing many expected was excessive outreach to the right. But the old focus on bipartisanship has been displaced with an emphasis on coalition — attending first and foremost to your own side, everyone balancing the holding of their own with the holding of their nose. — PolitiTweet.org

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This was the first big thing I took away from my interviews: For now, at least, an unlikely alliance of a moderate leader with a progressive movement at his back and at his throat is holding together -- with everyone learning to haggle and hang together. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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A moderate won the race. But he did so even as a progressive movement was winning the ideas battle. He landed in office during an acute crisis that created a rare window to do big things to address it and the chronic crises festering over a generation. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not sure Joe Biden would have seen this kind of Biden presidency coming. Because his tenure represents a highly improbable intersection of man, movement, and moment. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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People like to tell you they saw things coming. But I didn't see this Biden presidency coming. So I got on the phone with campers of every ideological persuasion in Biden's big tent and began to paint this portrait of a coalition and a moment. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ThiagoKrause2: “Washington in the first days of the Biden administration is a place for double takes: A president associated with the p… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: How did Joe Biden win the hearts of Bernie Sanders' supporters? @AnandWrites does some interesting reporting here: ht… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: Could Joe Biden be a transformational president? @AnandWrites admits that he never saw this coming. https://t.co/MlmT8rMGkq — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kai_wright: "There's a case for taxing these fortunes simply for making them smaller. That...our democracy can breathe better when they… — PolitiTweet.org

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Welcome to the new progressive era. In all its unlikely, complicated, age-of-Reagan-busting glory. I interviewed the gamut of campers in @JoeBiden’s big tent, and wrote this portrait of a coalition for @TheAtlantic. https://t.co/rcnvV7NlBk (Coming up now on @Morning_Joe.) — PolitiTweet.org

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See you at 8:30 a.m.! — PolitiTweet.org

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@BMT8291 @Morning_Joe How do you like your tents? — PolitiTweet.org

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🚨A big new essay dropping tomorrow. Tune in to @Morning_Joe around 8:30 a.m. ET for the details. https://t.co/M3yEAJU46m — PolitiTweet.org

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Is Amazon's monopoly solely the government's problem to solve, or yours, too, as a consumer? https://t.co/aDa16MpEhP — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MarkLevineNYC: Important: If you have an J&J appt at a NY State-run vax site today (e.g. Javits, Aqueduct), you should still go and you… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ohioaflcio: An amazing discussion will happen April 29th at 6pm with @AnandWrites and @RichardTrumka of the @AFLCIO. This Virtual "Labo… — PolitiTweet.org

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Wonder why! — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm so excited for my conversation at month's end with @RichardTrumka, president of the @AFLCIO union of unions. It's free and open to all, hosted by @ToledoLibrary. Go Ohio! What do you want us to talk about? https://t.co/xrvSeL8jsz — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @praddenkeefe: My book EMPIRE OF PAIN comes out today. It is an investigative chronicle of three generations of the Sackler family and t… — PolitiTweet.org

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I encourage you to check out @AlecMacGillis' important new book, FULFILLMENT. (Link in post.) And if you enjoy these interviews, sign up free for The Ink's newsletter. https://t.co/aDa16MpEhP — PolitiTweet.org

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We talked about how to rebuild unions, how Amazon avoids taxes, and more. I asked @AlecMacGillis what kind of world he thinks Amazon is leading us into. https://t.co/aDa16MpEhP https://t.co/jaT2qWHOvR — PolitiTweet.org

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"There's a democratic process for deciding how we use that money...That's kind of what government is for. With philanthropy, there's none of that. We just depend on our corporate overlords to decide what's good for us." https://t.co/aDa16MpEhP — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlecMacGillis @JeffBezos We hear a lot about @JeffBezos' philanthropy, and, more generally, the plutes' argument that they know how to spend money better than governments. But did you know Bezos had personally funded an effort to make Washington State's highly regressive tax system more fair? https://t.co/z2SrWQKDtU — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlecMacGillis Among the wealth-creation secrets of @JeffBezos is how plainly he sought to take advantage of deindustrialization, @AlecMacGillis says, offering insecure labor to desperate former manufacturing workers and demanding tax breaks from job-hungry regions. https://t.co/aDa16MpEhP https://t.co/bxw0xbzt3E — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlecMacGillis Amazon, @AlecMacGillis explains, is a major participant in the "zero-sum sorting" of America, with some groups and regions on the consumptive, instantly gratified end of "fulfillment" and others on the grueling, precarious worker end of "fulfillment." https://t.co/aDa16MpEhP https://t.co/A4YRBPlT1l — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing @AlecMacGillis taught me through his reporting is that Amazon has often built warehouses right on top of the carcasses of deindustrialization, hiring laid-off workers, but with less security and stability than they had. https://t.co/aDa16MpEhP — PolitiTweet.org

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@propublica @AlecMacGillis I began by asking @AlecMacGillis about the cultural meaning of Amazon's rise. https://t.co/aDa16MpEhP https://t.co/jLHBf5D54E — PolitiTweet.org

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In his book FULFILLMENT, @ProPublica investigative reporter @AlecMacGillis probes the "zero-sum sorting" that Amazon is visiting on American society -- pushing the country ever further toward an upstairs-downstairs, fulfilled-fulfillment warehouse divide. https://t.co/aDa16MpEhP — PolitiTweet.org