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Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

The cynicism and dishonesty of Hannity, Eva Braun Ingraham, and all the rest is astonishing. Rupert Murdoch’s lie machine is directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, the poisoning of our democracy and the stoking of a cold civil war. There has — PolitiTweet.org

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Fox News hosts and executives hold their audience in complete contempt. They despise them. The disrespect shown to the audience is unprecedented in broadcast history. The lying is ceaseless and every word is delivered with blind faith that the audience is stupid and oblivious — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ll rephrase the question for Peter Doocy and toss it back “We’ve seen Fox News arsonists like Hannity, Ingraham and Carlson burn down truth and democracy. Does Rupert Murdoch think that’s patriotism? — PolitiTweet.org

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.@IngrahamAngle Anything to say for yourself? You are one of the most profoundly dishonest people who has ever been broadcast on American television. You are a total fraud. You are a liar, demagogue and extremist who hates her country and makes millions by trying to burn it down — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @IdeaGov: Just. Hold on to your horses folks.... this is gonna get crazy very soon. Great to see the @January6thCmte doing this. It is w… — PolitiTweet.org

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Why hasn’t Mark Meadows been arrested for trying to overthrow the US Government. — PolitiTweet.org

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the Republic against the conspirators of a coup isn’t a hard choice. It is an easy one and more importantly maybe a necessary one. — PolitiTweet.org

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is more like a character at the edge of “Springtime for Hitler” I think there is a big difference between Meadows and Bannon. Bannon would thrive in jail. Meadows would not. Congress has Inherent Contempt authority. Exercising an existing power with precedent of use in defense of — PolitiTweet.org

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There have been a multitude of imaginings about what an American Coup would look like rendered in Novels, short stories, movies, television ect….None of them, not one, ever imagined the sheer goofiness of a character like Mark Meadows. The crying Gentleman from North Carolina — PolitiTweet.org

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rather than later. — PolitiTweet.org

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society as the threats we face. We have long understood this concept as the “ Better Angels of our Nature”. I believed the last election was entirely about Trump. The next one will not be, even if he is in the ballot. It will be about who we are. The answer will arrive sooner — PolitiTweet.org

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born in 1791 has a living grandson. The story of America is still being written. The American nation has faced down uncertain hours many times in our history. We know the values and character that were required to navigate those moments. They are as present and real in our — PolitiTweet.org

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of our progeny. Time is nature’s most unrelenting force. How we appreciate it and use it is dependent on a great many factors that shape the human experience. Three eighty year human lifetimes ago brings us to the beginning of the United States. The 10th President, John Tyler — PolitiTweet.org

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fundamental duty of American Citizenship, to perfect the Union by preserving and strengthening it. History teaches us that what strengthens the Union is equality, inclusion and liberty. Great sacrifices were made in order to stand at this moment of profound choice for the future — PolitiTweet.org

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Political leadership in this moment requires the building, sustainment and strengthening of a coalition of common purpose in defense of some of the most noble ideals that have ever existed. Though they haven’t been reached does not mean that they will not be one day. That is the — PolitiTweet.org

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enough to stop an autocratic movement teeming with racial malice, violence, nativism, cynicism, corruption and bottomless dishonesty? If a shared belief in pluralism, equality, the rule of law and equal justice under it for all people isn’t broad enough, what can be? The test of — PolitiTweet.org

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life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? The moment requires the building of a broad and diverse coalition that tolerates disagreement and rejects contempt as the response of first choice to dealing with political opponents. What can unify this coalition and make it powerful — PolitiTweet.org

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they haven’t yet risen. Who will rise in this country and take the banner for the cause of the American experiment and the greatest idea ever put to paper by the hand of man which is that we are all created equally and endowed by a creator with inalienable rights which include — PolitiTweet.org

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Is required at this moment to defend American democracy from a gathering threat that is real, clear and present? We live in a moment that has yet to produce the thunderous and unifying voices we need to hold the line against the autocratic threat. No doubt they are present but — PolitiTweet.org

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Has there been a clear, effective and sustained articulation of the morality of American ideals and our democracy on behalf of an American Majority that is watching in disbelief as they are assaulted by a billion dollar hate and lie machine? What exactly is the strategy and what — PolitiTweet.org

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has transpired since that day? Are the forces of political extremism chastened or emboldened? Has there been a sustained popular revulsion around what happened? What about a sustained consistent public argument from the top about what happened and the danger we narrowly evaded? — PolitiTweet.org

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in a very confusing political moment. A year after 1/6/21 occurred, at this moment in time, are we more or less likely to see a future attempt to seize Presidential power by refusing to accept the will of the American people after an election as a result of everything that — PolitiTweet.org

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fail at all. Maybe it is all still unfolding. What if it is just a prelude to the loser of the next Presidential election taking power illegitimately and illegally on the basis of a lie and military force? There is a simple test that can be used to find our bearings — PolitiTweet.org

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didn’t do so out of any sense of duty or fidelity to his Constitutional Oath of Office but rather because he was convinced by Dan Quayle that he simply couldn’t. That seems like pretty thin ice to bet the future of the Republic on. Maybe whatever happened on January 6th didn’t — PolitiTweet.org

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elected American President. Is that a big deal ? Does it matter? Is anyone else curious about how it might have played out? Given how incredibly close this all came to happening I’m definitely in the morbidly curious category. In the end, it was ultimately prevented by a man who — PolitiTweet.org

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the enthusiastic aid of Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and scores of Members of Congress? Perhaps we should call it what it was? It was a violent mob, incited by the lies of a defeated President to March on the US Capitol and disrupt the peaceful transition of power to the legitimately — PolitiTweet.org

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written plan calling for Trump to declare a national emergency and use the military to seize political power passed around between senior advisers to the President, US senators, Cabinet Secretaries and other powerful people. What should we call the mob that Trump incited with — PolitiTweet.org

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Soon we will mark the one year anniversary of the 1/6/2021 ______? What should we call it? @nytimes often calls it a riot. That feels insufficient. I called it an insurrection while it was happening and that is what I believe it was. Was it more? Was it a coup? There was a — PolitiTweet.org

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of Impact, that impact was barely noticed. When it was noticed, it was too late, the panic came next. It seems more than a little relevant to our present national dilemma — PolitiTweet.org

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our national mythology. When it comes to Titanic, I’ve long been fascinated by the journey from calm to panic with all of the rawness of human behavior from great courage to cowardice that played out in those 2 hours and 40 minutes. Though the ship was fated to sink at the moment — PolitiTweet.org