Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

darkest days. Trump and his lieutenants are demanding we abandon our history, traditions and sacrifices to sate his ego and lust for power. America belongs to no person, family or faction. America is a land where the Government is Of the People, By the People and For the People — PolitiTweet.org

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staggering cost over our history. What happened a year ago continues to unfold. The boycott of the moment of silence on the House floor by Radical Republicans wasn’t an occasion of absence, it was a declaration. Look at the photo of Jaqueline Kennedy on one of America’s — PolitiTweet.org

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moment, no matter where it occurs is a sacred one. Whether it occurs on a tragic day or a celebratory one does not change its simple majesty. The continuity of the American Government through a process of peaceful transition is a secular miracle that has been preserved at — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ shot in the head. Why is she there? Why is she in that photo and why did it matter? She was there because she was First Lady of the United States and she did her duty. At a moment of trauma, agony and global horror, she put the country first. She was in that photo because that — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ The photo depicts Lyndon Johnson raising his right hand and taking the 35 word Presidential Oath of Office. Standing next to him is a 34 year old mother of two small children in a blood spattered coat who was sitting next to her husband, the murdered President, when he was — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a Life Magazine spread previewing a new book by Theodore White. The excerpt tells the story of Johnson’s ascension to the Presidency on 22 November 1963 after the assassination of President Kennedy. The picture, once universal in its fame, deserves closer examination. 1/ https://t.co/RHsSfIt6CY — PolitiTweet.org

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Two incredible ads from 1965. https://t.co/ZXJcVLJT6u — PolitiTweet.org

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I have a lot of these old Life Magazines. They are like time capsules. The magazine cover would have been pretty astonishing in 1966. There are no black faces in any ads in the Mag. RIP Mr. Poitier. https://t.co/206GgNRsDM — PolitiTweet.org

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Amazing ad celebrating a Sugar diet from 1966 https://t.co/4IeUWkGTF1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Our American story is rooted in a contradiction between our ideals and our reality. The battle to close that chasm has had many fronts and millions of moments. Here is one of them from 1964 America. The barriers he broke and the doors he opened were immense. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sidney Poitier is a name that should be known to younger Americans. He was an enormously important figure in the Civil Rights movement and someone who moved freedom forward by the force of his talent and ferocious dignity. RIP — PolitiTweet.org

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.@tedcruz is the quintessential Gen X villain. For sure, he should drop the jacket and don a cape. I can’t decide if his villain name should be the Groveller or the Sniveller. Tucker has the same look Scut Farkus did right after he got hit in the face by a snowball. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sniveling is the word. It is time to bring it back. Tucker squints with menace while Ol ‘ Rafael does the Cancun two step and snivels away. It would be incredible if Rip from @Yellowstone burst in and took care of business on tomorrow’s episode. — PolitiTweet.org

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fight” is an old African proverb. Perhaps if Ted knew it he wouldn’t have so misjudged Tucker. Emasculation and humiliation seem to lurk like Nag and Nagina around Ted’s ambition. There seems to be no Riki Tiki in his story though. Pathetic isn’t the word. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@tedcruz groveling for favor between twitches as he absorbs the emasculating lecture from 2024 contender @TuckerCarlson is a depraved spectacle that affirms the old proverbs about cowards tasting a thousand deaths. “When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkAbbott16 Yup — PolitiTweet.org

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He was? That was never the case on the McCain bus. He was always scored on the Sidekick scale. I thought everyone knew that. Hmmm. — PolitiTweet.org

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👇 Read every word. If you ever wanted to know what thermonuclear cynicism looks like all you have to do is read 👇 — PolitiTweet.org

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political leadership in this moment. The ability to articulate why the American Experiment shouldn’t be smothered to death in broad daylight by a menagerie of cultists, opportunists, extremists, racists, nativists, criminals, fascists and weirdos is table stakes. — PolitiTweet.org

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autocratic movement in America is strong, well funded, organized, confident and ascendant. It is winning. There must be a clarion call in this country about the virtue of defending democracy and America’s ideas and ideals. This is the singularly most important requirement of — PolitiTweet.org

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more. The extremist groups are emboldened. American companies have abandoned their commitment to defund the Members that voted to disenfranchise millions of Black votes and lied about a stolen election because they believe they will take control of Congress in 11 months. The — PolitiTweet.org

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extremists, militias, fascist Proud Boys, White Supremacists and Conspiracy theorists. The mob was incited by Trump, Ted Cruz and a dozen more famous and powerful people. The extremist movement is more powerful than it was a year ago. It has gained territory and is poised to take — PolitiTweet.org

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America. We the people decide who leads the nation. What happened was a violent conspiracy to overthrow the legitimate results of a Presidential election and install an American Caesar, all powerful and lawless. The Capitol was attacked by a murdering mob that included political — PolitiTweet.org

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the greatest of American inventions and traditions. There is a compact between us that is nearly 250 years old. Today, it includes all of us, regardless of race, creed, religion, gender or any other basis that was used to exclude and diminish individuals from the promise of — PolitiTweet.org

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It is a mistake to communicate what this was by leading with what it wasn’t. It is off balance. No different than sports. It is hard to throw or punch off the back foot. It is hard to ski while leaning back. What happened must be met head on. The peaceful transition of power is — PolitiTweet.org

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I wrote this one year ago, four days before the insurrection. — PolitiTweet.org

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is what explicates the stakes and infuses all of this with what King called the “fierce urgency of now”. — PolitiTweet.org

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heart of clarity lies simplicity. What is it that is in the Civil Rights Legislation? What will it do? Have faith that this will work. The American people don’t want to go backwards. Sometimes people end up there because they are disoriented and deceived. Explaining the details — PolitiTweet.org

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like RECONCILIATION that have no meaning to any normal person. All around us, a great theater of the absurd is playing out where what matters from what doesn’t is hard to find in the blur of misinformation and disinformation that swirls all around. Clarity matters and at the — PolitiTweet.org

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because the sacrifices made to expand the promise of America have been so profound. Senators have a tendency to speak in a derivative of the English language that overuses the buzzwords of the moment (BUILD BACk BETTER) and marries them to the bureaucratic descriptors of process — PolitiTweet.org