Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

the past as irrelevant trivia and nuisance. It is a perspective that discounts the possibility of white hot embers burning under an ash heap because the ash heap can’t be seen at all or worse, accurately remembered. — PolitiTweet.org

Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

is viewed as so historically unique that any lessons of history used to explicate and navigate it are often viewed as an affront rooted in a deficit of sophistication around grasping the complexities of a present so innately special that it renders comparisons and lessons from — PolitiTweet.org

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can’t quite catch up and offer any meaning in our faster, modern times, which of course are made special and unique, mainly by virtue of the fact, that this is the time WE are living in. it is a perspective steeped in a type of adolescent arrogance where the present moment — PolitiTweet.org

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aided by the weakness of the virtuous”. A lack of imagination about humanities capacity to create new chapters of horror seems to be a type of inherited blindness that is passed between the generations. It produces a dogma of naïveté that believes the lessons of the past — PolitiTweet.org

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understand. The first is, what happened? The second is, how did it happen? Often, the lessons of these events, recent history, which still exists within the boundaries of living memory, are lost when they are applied to our current politics and division as points of comparison — PolitiTweet.org

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are “latent Eichmann’s” all around us. He said they are harmless in a democracy; benign. However, in a dictatorship, whether from the right or left, they can become lethal, deadly and capable of crimes that beggar imagination. There are two questions that are essential to — PolitiTweet.org

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Interview a generation later in the early 1980’s. Responding to a question, he said the experience changed his perspective on everything, most importantly, his belief in democracy as the only way to protect humanity from the monsters among us. He explained that there — PolitiTweet.org

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a defensive act and a lawful exercise of power. It lasted 90 minutes and was the most consequential convocation of evil in world history. It begat humanities greatest crime. The man who interrogated Eichmann in Israel was named Avner Less. He reflected on the experience in an — PolitiTweet.org

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I hope people will watch this documentary piece. SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolph Eichmann was the recording secretary at the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942. It was at this meeting presided over by Heydrich that the “Final Solution” was sanctified as a moral necessity, — PolitiTweet.org

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Here is a great story about General Powell from the great Photographer David Kennerly @kennerly — PolitiTweet.org

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👇👇great book. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DeadlineWH: "Ringing out across our nation's capital... is another scathing rebuke of the Republicans party from Liz Cheney, who used t… — PolitiTweet.org

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I read it until almost 4 am. Could not put it down. This is the perfect Xmas book gift for anyone into books about spies and real life. Buy it. They’ll love it. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m reading one of the best books I’ve ever read #Damascus Station @mccloskeybooks written by David McCloskey. It is a breathtaking account from a CIA insider about the Syrian hellscape, forged by a tsunami of atrocities inflicted by Bashir Al Assad on the Syrian people. — PolitiTweet.org

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Young Zuck has grown to hideous dimensions. Whatever they call it, IT is too big, too powerful, too unaccountable and deeply untrustworthy. It is not a benign organization and it is cold and indifferent towards any concept of the public good. Maybe the name should be AMERIZUCKED — PolitiTweet.org

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The rebrand is telling though, it cracks open a window into the psychology of Facebook’s leadership. They believe they have a communications problem, an optics problem, not a runaway train issue. The truth is the power of a dorm room creation built to rate the looks of women by — PolitiTweet.org

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What? The threats to democracy go away? The algorithmic poisoning of people with misinformation, conspiracies and insanity doesn’t stop with a new name. The spread of extremism isn’t slowed by a new name. The damage done to children and the fracturing of society into hateful — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook will rebrand. It will have a new name. The name is a secret. Even the most senior people do not know the new secret name. Silicon Valley PR flacks are abuzz. It’s smart, textbook. All the best PR and Comms firms are on it. It will be like magic. A new name and POOF! 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @johnpavlovitz: Tomorrow at 5PM ET on Instagram with @mariashriver! https://t.co/3f3ZUQS7wX — PolitiTweet.org

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Always great to be on @TheBeatWithAri @AriMelber on @msnbc. — PolitiTweet.org

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of those years was 1934 and there was real friction in the Democratic coalition. The campaign of Democratic-socialist, Upton Sinclair, in California represented a huge and worrisome fissure for FDR. Nevertheless; in the end, midterm victory. — PolitiTweet.org

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I always enjoy reading @AndrewFeinberg takes on what is happening in our politics. Was happy to talk about the midterms with him. Remember, there are only three occasions in the last 120 years where the Incumbent Presidents party has picked up seats in the first midterm. One — PolitiTweet.org

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In the terminal literally hundreds of people, maybe more, of all creeds, races and genders are staring at their phones and swerving about the terminal, lost in conversations, utterly oblivious and unaware that there are other humans all around. Amazingness — PolitiTweet.org

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The airports are crowded. Lots of people are on the move. Many, maybe a majority, have lost their capacity to walk in a straight line during the Covid era. I think we may be reaching some type of critical tipping point in the society with regard to collective obliviousness. — PolitiTweet.org

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antiseptic stillness of a Federal cell. The United States, at least for a little while longer, is a nation of laws. It is not yet a Banana Republic or a Trumpian kleptocracy in a polygamous relationship with fascists and religious extremists. — PolitiTweet.org

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for either to alter course. When the collision happens I expect the committee will saw the rickety frigate of low life liars, insurrectionists and obstructionists in half. Only Bannon and his compatriots won’t be tossed in a violent sea, they will find themselves in the — PolitiTweet.org

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that will defy the childlike expectation of immediate gratification. Yet, the pieces are starting to move. They are starting to line up and the line of collision is clear. There are miles and miles of open Ocean between the bows of the approaching ships yet already it is too late — PolitiTweet.org

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are but a small sampling of Members that don’t look like they are fooling around to me. If Bannon is looking for a proverbial gun fight at the OK Corral he surely understands that @RepLizCheney is the type that turns up for for the fight early and happy? Events are in motion — PolitiTweet.org

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political prisoner in the name of Trump? After all, if the glory of MAGA martyrdom requires time in the Federal Pokey, who is Bannon to resist. Surely he can’t believe that the Committee isn’t serious about enforcing them? @RepAdamSchiff @RepRaskin and @BennieGThompson — PolitiTweet.org