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This is a must read by David Brooks. Though I share the sentiment of the headline writer about how terrifying this is, I wonder if Brooks fully understands what he is seeing. His observations are jarring but I found his reactions to them to be equally so. https://t.co/kT9T6HvSpe — PolitiTweet.org

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principled conservative candidate that comes from a pool made up of Liz Cheney and Adam Kitzinger. It will be interesting — PolitiTweet.org

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the sycophant lane, mostly candidates in waiting who will make final determinations based on what Trump will do. These people are all VP candidates. The Big Short Lane will hold candidates like Christie who believe Trump will unravel and not make it. Lastly, there will be a — PolitiTweet.org

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sensibility. The first quality that MAGA voters will embrace should Trump fall is his fighting Schtick and the place they will find it is in his critics who were tough enough to take him on. Thus we see the contours of the forming running lanes for campaign 24. There will be — PolitiTweet.org

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a variation of “ If you want to be the man, you have to beat the man” power philosophy. They know that they can’t beat Trump but they know that Trump can beat himself and they want to claim the throne on the basis of their toughness which matches for the GQP’s gladiatorial — PolitiTweet.org

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Sununu’s signal that he is not afraid of running against Trump. I think what they are betting against is Trump’s longevity. In a strong man party the most important terrain to occupy is Mt. Performative Tough Guy. It looks to me like they are building campaigns in waiting on — PolitiTweet.org

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somewhat interesting. Clearly, Youngkin’s defiance of Trump, the man, not the ideologist, has caused ambitious GOP politicians to take note. Chris Christie’s book and tour is based on total ludicrousness but his shorting of the Trump stock is worthy of note. So is Gov Chris — PolitiTweet.org

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advantages and the historic midterm current where the incumbent President’s party has picked up seats in the first one on three occasions in the last 120 years. There seems to be some green shoots emerging with regard to challenging Trump’s authority in the GQP. I find this — PolitiTweet.org

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Mid-Term Democratic success will be highly reliant on GQP self sabotage and Trump’s finely honed vengeance instincts. Exploiting the fault lines that exist between the competing personalities and egos of MAGA is absolutely essential to being able to overcome GQP redistricting — PolitiTweet.org

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struggle and that is why it is important to remember who we are. We are Americans and that means something to a majority of us who are repelled by the violence, cruelty, extremism and madness of our sick times. — PolitiTweet.org

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He made clear that he would choose no other time to live in but his own. He was grateful to fight for justice and liberty. He knew his cause was both great and just. Today, the fight continues and tomorrow it will go on. In the end we will get there, but it won’t be without — PolitiTweet.org

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we would be ok. He saw it. He saw the just society he gave his life for. He knew it would be real but he did not tell us when. That is the work of each generation of AmerIcans, to perfect the Union. During that speech MLK surveyed all of history and pondered living in other times — PolitiTweet.org

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side. He said, “I know as a people people we will get to the promised land” Of course he was referring to black Americans but I think also to the whole of the American people, none of whom can be truly free until all are. The man who knew his martyrdom was at hand also told us — PolitiTweet.org

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race, creed and religion on a “Freedom Parade” in Washington DC, 5 years earlier to collect a “ promissory note” in the shadow of the temple where we remember the greatness of Abraham Lincoln told the crowd in Memphis that he had been to the mountaintop and seen over to the other — PolitiTweet.org

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MLK prophesied his death in one of the greatest orations in American history. As the hour of his death approached he abandoned the hope we all have for “longevity,” a “long life” as he put it. The man who led hundreds of thousands of people of every — PolitiTweet.org

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They are praying for the vast majority of people in this country to be worn down and dispirited by it all. That is how the extremists win. The very first thing they have to accomplish is make us forget who we really are as an American people in 2021. The night before his murder — PolitiTweet.org

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to stay in office forever by picking their voters. The result is political leadership that looks like the blend of performative buffoonery and idiocy as well as the very real nihilism and malice of men and women like @GOPLeader, @tedcruz @RepMTG, @mattgaetz ect……. — PolitiTweet.org

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political system that has disenfranchised the concept of the public good and patriotism for the un American advancement of self interest and factionalism. The majority of people in this country are held in a toxic conservatorship by our politicians who have figured out how — PolitiTweet.org

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millions of our fellow citizens cheer them is deeply depressing. Surely though, it is worth noting that there are many more tens of millions of us, a great majority that rejects all of this insanity and nonsense. The majority has become silenced and unheard by a Federal — PolitiTweet.org

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and radicalized losers who have surrendered their agency and souls to the worst cause in this country since secession and Jim Crow. Who we are as a people, an American people, is not defined by our Rittenhouses and Tucker Carlsons. They are among us and the fact that tens of — PolitiTweet.org

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a trillion dollar industry in 21st century America. That is too bad to say the least, but it is only part of the story. The vast majority of people in America do not want to be at each others throats as we creep towards violent political confrontations incited by MAGA politicians — PolitiTweet.org

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the smiles and joy and laughter to be found in the coverage of what is supposed to be the story of us and our times? The darkness and extremism are very real but so are the qualities of goodness and decency that can defeat them. Division, anger and conspiracy have become — PolitiTweet.org

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In every American community there are acts of inspiration and examples of mercy, grace, forgiveness, redemption and service that exist apart from our toxic and rancid politics/media/social media culture. We mostly see images of snarled and angry faces on our screens. Where are — PolitiTweet.org

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I think there is another cost to our society around the Rittenhouse trial and it is the warping affect of the constancy of media coverage around the worst of us at the cost of ignoring the best of us. All across America there are stories of good people doing heroic deeds. — PolitiTweet.org

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This really sums it up. Must watch. Deep wisdom below. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thread by @SteveSchmidtSES on Thread Reader App https://t.co/h5HNnv2gcQ — PolitiTweet.org

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and advance extremism in America until he is of no more use. He will be a down and out loser like George Zimmerman whose only accomplishment in life will have been beating a murder rap. Rittenhouse is a real life Arthur Fleck, an updated model of Bernard Goetz with a bigger gun. — PolitiTweet.org

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An American jury found that Rittenhouse was not a murderer. That doesn’t change the fact that he is a killer. He destroyed families and lives. He is a disgusting figure perfectly matched for the @TuckerCarlson’s of the world who will exploit and use him to make money — PolitiTweet.org

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power to do so is given away to a faction who thereafter will make the decisions for us all and the first one they will make is that the debate between us is over. — PolitiTweet.org

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by force, invasion or coup. It will be lost in elections at the hands of the American people who will decide the fate of the gift given us all through sacrifices by women and men of all races, creeds and faith that beggar imagination. The American people will decide until the — PolitiTweet.org