Nick Confessore

Nick Confessore @nickconfessore

After Trump won in 2016, his people rewrote the party rules to make an anti-Trump insurgency much harder. Meanwhile, Democrats... — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: my @NYTmag investigation into the year-long bureaucratic battle waged by Mick Mulvaney at the @CFPB, founded in the wake of the financial crash by @SenWarren. A thread on how this story came to be, why it is important -- and what it says about the stakes for 2020. (thread) — PolitiTweet.org

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Mulvaney’s slow-rolling attack on the bureau’s enforcement and regulatory powers wasn’t just one of the Trump era’s most emblematic assaults on the so-called administrative state. It was also, in part, an audition. https://t.co/hRxVxvJTiO https://t.co/YP6Yjl03ut — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Morning_Joe: Mick Mulvaney’s Master Class in Destroying the Government From Within https://t.co/Ty3BKEc1Bs @nickconfessore — PolitiTweet.org

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My article is the story of what happened next -- a subtle, bitter, prolonged bureaucratic battle over one small but powerful agency. A proxy for the country’s larger ideological battles over deregulation, Trumpism, and who Trumpian populism really serves. https://t.co/hRxVxvJTiO — PolitiTweet.org

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There are different views on this, of course. For a deep dive into anti-CFPB thinking, here is a long essay that @NRO published a couple of years ago by a former bureau staffer who is extremely critical of the Obama-era agency. https://t.co/7eGjcc176O — PolitiTweet.org

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Mulvaney and his political team at the bureau viewed the Obama-era CFPB as unconstitutional and out of control. They also argued that the imbalance of power Warren critiqued was, for the most part, not the job of government to correct. — PolitiTweet.org

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In my story, we focus on payday lending, a smallish financial industry whose customer base in the working poor, concentrated in "Trump states." Mulvaney comes from a big payday state, where payday is widely used as credit, and sometimes some of the only credit available to them. — PolitiTweet.org

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How the populist inversion works: 1) Trump runs for president bashing big banks and Goldman Sachs. 2) Trump hires Goldman's president, Gary Cohn, to be his top econ policy guy 3) Cohn recruits a libertarian conservative to run the country's consumer financial regulator. https://t.co/5dYUvZj3B7 — PolitiTweet.org

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But the left lost control of the post-crash backlash -- first to the Tea Party, and then to New York billionaire who stocked his cabinet with financial execs. Trump handed Warren’s creation to one of its most fervent enemies, Mick Mulvaney, who firmly rejected Warren’s critique. — PolitiTweet.org

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Her theory of the case: The rise of the consumer credit since the 80s -- and the huge swell in household debt before and since the crash -- was built on a sleight of hand, in which credit card cos, mortgage lenders, and others make products seem cheaper than they really were. https://t.co/Z8Y7dgE7zf — PolitiTweet.org

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Democrats first harnessed the populist backlash to Wall Street. Elizabeth Warren used it to create an agency that she hoped would crack down on the sort of predatory lending practices that not only led to the crash, but shifted money and power away from American consumers. — PolitiTweet.org

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Most Americans likely haven’t even heard of the C.F.P.B. But the story of its creation (under Obama) and deconstruction (under Trump) is a key to understanding our Age of Inequality and the weird, inverted politics of post-crash America. — PolitiTweet.org

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Today, @nytimesmag published my investigation into the year-long bureaucratic battle waged by Trump appointees at the @CFPB. A quick thead on how this story came to be, why it is important -- and what it says about the stakes for 2020. (thread) https://t.co/hRxVxvJTiO — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattdpearce: This is crazy. Ilhan Omar wrote a sympathetic tweet about Notre Dame and, in response, got compared to ISIS. 1,800 retweet… — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s tough to be a big tent policy outfit when you are also aggressively promoting particular policy ideas and critiquing other ones, especially when they are ideas closely tied to particular candidates. — PolitiTweet.org

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As I read this piece I couldn’t help but think about how much of these conflicts can be traced to the decades-long mission creep of DC think tanks. The big ones are now all an amalgam of a think tank, advocacy organization, and ideological media outlet. — PolitiTweet.org

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New from @NYTLiz & @kenvogel: The battle between a leading Clintonworld think tank and the self-styled Sanders insurgency. https://t.co/2bb006OkLc — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MaraGay: Couldn’t be prouder of Brent Staples, my colleague at the NYT who has won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, setting th… — PolitiTweet.org

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A shoutout to these former @columbiajourn grad students, whose class project helped kick off the reporting for this story in our series. https://t.co/YBS5H6rBB0 — PolitiTweet.org

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So many reporters contributed to our Big Tech series I literally can’t fit them all into one tweet. But you can read their work here. It was an honor to work with all of them. https://t.co/frFKXLGoDQ — PolitiTweet.org

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And the biggest congrats of all to my investigative colleagues @susannecraig @DavidBarstow & @russbuettner, who won for their epic investigation of Trump's self-made myth and shady tax dodging. https://t.co/A1fjlsntuH — PolitiTweet.org

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Grateful to the @PulitzerPrizes for recognizing our @nytimes Big Tech investigations as a finalist for national reporting. And a big congrats to our friends at the @WSJ, who won in national for their groundbreaking coverage of Trump and Michael Cohen. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lachlan: Alan Dershowitz wrote an introduction to a report that's not even public yet and it's already selling like hotcakes https://t.… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Rich_Harris: today's bitcoin ransom email was pretty convincing up till this part https://t.co/2qJDeHLnYW — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CNN: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "I do reject socialism as a economic system. If people have that view, that's their view. That is not… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SykesCharlie: Not my first choice, but he seems like a disrupter, the elites hate him, he will permanently drain the swamp, and —best o… — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s instructive to remember just how bitter relations between Clintonworld and Obamaland were after ‘08, how much high-level diplomacy went into mending the fences, and how much the process was aided by the latter’s ability to bring the former into an administration. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jeremybowers So that’s enough ramps for, like, one person? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @daveweigel: Jerry Nadler's response to an Ilhan Q from @jaketapper probably the strongest I've seen from any Dem. https://t.co/jXpHX4Nf… — PolitiTweet.org