Chris Hayes

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes

And so now the "normal" back and forth of politics (the "out" party mobilizes and does well in off-year elections, thermostatic public opinion, etc) seems exisentially perilous in a way it hasn't before. — PolitiTweet.org

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Right now, though, one of those coalitions is controlled by a faction that is quite explicitly and aggressively radicalizing against democracy (and increasingly flirting with violence). That radicalizing hasn't really had any effect on their political viability or chance at power — PolitiTweet.org

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Basically, in a two-party democracy you expect the two coalitions to trade power back and forth, to share it between branches and levels of government and to have lots of fights/conflicts all the time. That's politics. One party isn't gonna win all the time. — PolitiTweet.org

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Speaking for myself the root of The Bad Feeling has to do with the tension between the normal dynamics of a competitive two-party democracy, with the growing anti-democratic politics of one of those two parties. — PolitiTweet.org

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A few additional thoughts on this characteristically great @michelleinbklyn column... https://t.co/P8QqEzsqwQ — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes

RT @lucyj_ford: this is one of the most gorgeous outlooks on grief i have ever heard https://t.co/UwWlPMQo4r — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias @MattZeitlin I mean my god if anything we should take away from the last six years is that the future is pretty unpredictable! — PolitiTweet.org

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@awprokop @michelleinbklyn Yes I agree. I hope those of us who think we're on the precipice of real peril are wrong! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sahilkapur: Significant correction here. Turns out Build Back Better will *raise* average taxes for incomes over $1 million by 3.2 per… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sahilkapur: tl;dr the SALT provision cuts taxes for the wealthy but once you factor in the rest of the bill, it nets out a tax rate hik… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbarro @michelleinbklyn Yeah a big part of this is structural/cyclical, as she notes, but there’s also something deeper right now, independent of whats it immediate electoral consequences are. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @zackbeauchamp: It's eerie how little radical right rhetoric has changed over the past half-century. It's disturbing how much it's moved… — PolitiTweet.org

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@EricLevitz There is not! It’s completely incredible. — PolitiTweet.org

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Great column from @michelleinbklyn on The Bad Feeling and its political consequences. https://t.co/P8QqEzsqwQ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FnDan: Really interesting convo on the creative process and ethics of good filmmaking with ⁦@alexgibneyfilm⁩ #WITHPod https://t.co/62W… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @arindube: I usually wouldn't comment on a N=8 scatterplot, but this particular example turns out to be very useful pedagogically, illus… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mgerrydoyle: everything else about this tweet aside, I'm curious as to how one calculates the cost of gravy, which is largely turkey bi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @allinwithchris: .@chrislhayes connects the ‘backsliding’ of American democracy with the ‘existential threat’ of vigilante justice https… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @IrvingSwisher: I feel like the administration could be doing a better job of highlighting / playing up these announcements. If you were… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jeffhauser: Be thankful for this: The FTC is cracking down on those continuing online charges you can’t figure out how to cancel https:… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JoyAnnReid “We haven’t even gotten to grieve his death yet.” — PolitiTweet.org

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This interview with Anthony Huber’s father on @JoyAnnReid is so compelling and upsetting. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mhajjar78 yes absolutely. I think they made the right decision in the moment. — PolitiTweet.org

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Which is not to say that's what the policy should have done here (they clearly didn't have the full, kitted out "crowd control" gear present at most protests) but my god the difference is remarkable. — PolitiTweet.org

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Every time I see more footage like this I think of the protests I've covered where someone chucking a plastic water bottle at police led to tear gas, batons, arrests and more. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KCJHoop Is Vooch back? — PolitiTweet.org

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This story is honestly too perfect. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Wertwhile well and also being a total psychopath about a brutal once-in-a-century pandemic killing your people by the hundreds of thousands does have some political cost. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Wertwhile absolutely — PolitiTweet.org

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I think this is really useful perspective. Obviously politicians and political parties have to play the hand they've been dealt, but for all the talk about tactics/messaging, the structural dynamics are accounting for a the vast majority of what we're seeing, IMHO. — PolitiTweet.org