Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

The information flow is toxic and ludicrous. The accumulation of hysteria, panic, fear, division and ludicrous nonsense delivered to hundreds of millions of screens is abject confusion and disorientation. The hour demands explanation and explication. The choice is momentous — PolitiTweet.org

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That coalition fell apart below Joe Biden in November while tenuously re emerging in Georgia for the @ReverendWarnock @ossoff victories. It is looking at two sides and trying to figure out which one they are more afraid of. They are trying to ascertain how to balance the threat ? — PolitiTweet.org

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remains? These next elections are going to be about who we are as a people, a nation and a society. There is a swing electorate in America that is moving back and forth between two sides. They gave @SpeakerPelosi the Speakers gavel in 2018 and put Joe Biden in the White House. — PolitiTweet.org

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that is happening in the State’s that is a threat to American democracy? Why does a Federal Law need to be passed? What are the racial components to this? Why is this a moral issue? What was sacrificed to move America towards fulfilling its high ideals and promise? What work — PolitiTweet.org

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what they are without exaggeration, hyperbole, contempt, anger and frustration. What is it exactly that needs to be done and why? What is happening? Do not assume that anyone in the country can follow along with any of this. It has all been noise for a long while. What is it — PolitiTweet.org

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infuse the moment and debate with moral urgency instead of using the day as a deadline that could be moved thus delivering a disappointment on a day that should be filled with hope. 3. Instead of talking about the stakes and how high they are, it would be better to talk about — PolitiTweet.org

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American voters. There are three paragraphs in the message. 1. Stop talking about Senate rules. No one cares. You are the Majority Leader. Do or Do Not. Choose your choice. 2. Don’t set artificial deadlines when you have a history of backing up from the deadline. Use MLK day to — PolitiTweet.org

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Thankfully the November elections are Eleven Months away. If they were tomorrow the GOP would win decisive majorities. I’d like to offer a few comments, respectfully, around this tweet by @SenSchumer because time is running out to fix a communications and connection crisis with https://t.co/QbWiEBrWGg — PolitiTweet.org

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Many people ask me what they can do in this moment of peril for American democracy. The simple truth is we will preserve or lose the American Experiment at the ballot box. I believe this Senate race in Ohio is the most important in America. Pls help Tim https://t.co/Sj9IVJgi4K — PolitiTweet.org

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drowning in your mucous, poisoned by misinformation. We live in a moment where it is impossible to tell whether it is the farce or the tragedy that will prevail in their struggle for dominance in defining our age. Either way, no one gets to say they didn’t see it coming. — PolitiTweet.org

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confrontation towards it. Imagine looking at a casket of someone you love and imagining they were killed by a sick and weak person incited by Fox News and Tucker Carlson. If there is a stupider and more meaningless death possible, it is hard to think of one unless it includes — PolitiTweet.org

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mentally ill and evil people who are hovering at the edge of a knife waiting for a catalytic event that can trigger them towards action and violence. These people are no different than an ISIS suicide bomber. All around us, menace is growing because there has been an absence of — PolitiTweet.org

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It demands no discipline or sacrifice and offers absolution from responsibility and duty for the price of obedience and submission. It always offers an easy target to blame for everything. Among its adherents is a faction we all know exists. It includes the sick, paranoid, — PolitiTweet.org

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and hate half the people in it. Nostalgia for a past that never existed wrapped in a dogma of contempt, extremism and malice always fuels movements that are built on foundations of victimization and grievance. It is an easy philosophy to follow because it requires so little. — PolitiTweet.org

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Right and wrong don’t matter. The public good doesn’t matter. Patriotism doesn’t matter because it doesn’t exist in this world. Beware the people who proclaim their love of America and spit venom and hate at Americans in their next breath. It is impossible to love your country — PolitiTweet.org

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took him both literally and seriously. Maybe? That is of course what he was hoping for. He craves the smug satisfaction of generating outrage over both what he said and the ludicrous denials and debate over whether he meant it. None of this exists in any type of moral frame. — PolitiTweet.org

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In that spirit, before the inevitable happens, it would be good to have the list ready, in order to know who to blame. I suspect they will be hard to find in the moment. I’m guessing Jesse Waters smirk could light up the whole Fox Newsroom right now. Looks like someone finally — PolitiTweet.org

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the moral culpability? How is it apportioned between a Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Alex Jones at the tip of the spear and a Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch or even a Paul Ryan in the Boardroom? It is said that Prior Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. — PolitiTweet.org

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Ok. Hard to have seen this coming. What is the list of the top inciters of political violence in America? I don’t mean a thoughtless and ad hominem list that is prejudiced with the emotions and anger that will come after the looming tragedy. Objectively, who are they? What is — PolitiTweet.org

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What about us though? Is there any collective notion about the harsh judgements that await the timid complacency around dealing with this clear as day present? The intimations of violence, metastasizing extremism and non stop lying aren’t just poisoning our politics but the whole — PolitiTweet.org

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a thirst for power that is so great that they would burn down the American Experiment to taste it. It seems we live in a time of great moral fervor for judging the sins of our collective ancestors who have concluded authorship of their part of the American story for good or bad. — PolitiTweet.org

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War fought on American soil. It was a catastrophe of blood and suffering that Lincoln framed as God’s justice for the evil of slavery. Today, there is no great cause worthy of sacrifice, blood and suffering. There is only the vanity of small men and women who are disordered by — PolitiTweet.org

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Congressmen talk openly of “Second Amendment Solutions.” Horror and death are always accompanied by euphemisms. It seems mankind’s capacity for cruelty and evil has always outstripped the ability of language to describe it. Two eighty year old lifetimes ago, there was a Civil — PolitiTweet.org

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orientation towards. One doesn’t need to listen carefully anymore to hear voices fetishizing political violence and dreaming of Civil War. They are all around us now. The Jesse Waters of the world call for assassinations with a smirk knowing there is no boundaryat Fox News. — PolitiTweet.org

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unattainable within it. The question in the moment is a simple one. What’s happening or “ What’s Going On” as a genius from another time once put it to the country. Many things are happening all at once but there is one specific current that deserves reflection and a proper — PolitiTweet.org

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happening and unfolding in it deserves equal reflection but is often overlooked in favor of the clearer waters that nostalgia and hope offer. It is the murky present though, that requires the greatest scrutiny and most attention because it is always shifting and permanence is (2) — PolitiTweet.org

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The ending of a year is something that has more meaning for me with each passing onet . It is a natural time to reflect on all that has happened and ponder what might happen next. Between what has happened and what might, there is a space where the present exists and what is (1) — PolitiTweet.org

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Ok. I’m speechless. Amazing. Since politics is part of everything now it is worth noting that genius and creativity are always stomped on by the autocrats. They know the link between freedom, joy, liberty, creativity and music. That is why they always come for the artists. — PolitiTweet.org

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#DontLookUp is a must watch movie. It is a pitch perfect instant classic that will reveal the absurdism of our era to future generations. @LeoDiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and the creators of this masterpiece have made the Dr.Strangeglove of our time. — PolitiTweet.org

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Clearly no one told you the story about Mo Udall and the barber. Will might not know it, but he is living it. That explains the smile. Campaigns are tough. — PolitiTweet.org