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Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

because it is a threat to autocratic truths. Apostates must be punished for deviations of devotion to the leaders truth. Acts of conscience are selfish acts against the interests of the group and cannot be tolerated. They are particularly dangerous because almost all are rooted — PolitiTweet.org

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Leader declares it to be. This type of truth removes complexity and nuance from all things big and small. It is a reductive philosophy that makes clear what is important and what is trivial. Dissent is impermissible 13 — PolitiTweet.org

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cynics and businessmen to the cause of “autocratic freedom” The price of joining is low. It requires only submission to a cult of happy obedience and personal loyalty. There is no conflict between the truth and lie in this honest society. Truth is what the — PolitiTweet.org

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minority from the disenfranchised majority is the cause of Liberty to an autocrat. Their is no corruption in this system because the right to take is presumed. The pursuit of self interest and enrichment is an entitlement within the ruling minority. This is what attracts the 11 — PolitiTweet.org

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greater ambitions to retain power unconditionally. For the Nationalist Autocrats that call themselves Republican, democracy has become the enemy of freedom. Freedom is always redefined by Autocrats like Trump. For them freedom is the power to rule. Protection of the ruling — PolitiTweet.org

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of the people. Government of the People, By the People, For the People is legitimate only by virtue of the people’s vote. There is no optionality within the system; In or out; For or Against. They have turned against this idea because it has become incompatible with their 9 — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump and his Legion of millions is rejecting. This is what @GOPLeader, @tedcruz and every GOP State Party, nearly every GOP Governor, GOP Legislator, and generic GOP official is rejecting. The American system requires fidelity not conformity. It demand allegiance to the will — PolitiTweet.org

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enumerates and restrains the power of government while protecting individual rights. The bestowment of power is decided by majority vote through a system that at long last is supposed to grant full participation to all citizens regardless of race, creed or gender. That is what — PolitiTweet.org

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purpose of the lie. It is an attack aimed directly at our system of government. In America, “The People” temporarily grant their fellow citizens, likely members of competing political parties, lawful authority, within the framework of a Constitutional Republic that both — PolitiTweet.org

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American Patriot who built this country. There was no fraud. It is a lie. We all know who is lying. Even liars like @GOPLeader and @EliseStefanik know they are lying. There is no doubt, no mystery, and no question around the — PolitiTweet.org

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undone the compact between us. They have unraveled the agreement that has sustained, nourished and expanded all other freedoms in this land. In the name of Donald Trump and in service to his grotesque lies they have betrayed our birthright and desecrated the sacrifice of every 4 — PolitiTweet.org

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conflagration anew. Tens of millions of Citizens and the whole of one political party in a two party system have rejected democracy at a molecular level. They no longer belief in the system that places the individual atop the power of the State. In the name of freedom they have 3 — PolitiTweet.org

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No matter the length of its’ dormancy or appearance of extinguishment always smolders below the surface with a ready ember, eager to spread, thirsting for the ideological fuel of nationalism, hate, racial supremacy, political extremism and menace so that it may begin the 2 — PolitiTweet.org

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We are living through momentous and historic days together. We are witnesses to a profound and dangerous repudiation of faith and belief. We are alive to see the rejection of our national ideals for a new dogma; a toxic philosophy resurrected, yet again from an ash heap, that 1 — PolitiTweet.org

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shrink in the months ahead for a lot of people. It’s important that it’s the right people and that starts with understanding that vaccinated people, immunocompromised people, and under twelve are the wrong people to punish in the name of a purposeless appeasement to irrationality — PolitiTweet.org

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It is a time to confront the liars and call the nations most credible voices forward to help save lives. It is time to impose mandates and give people a choice. Talk to them like grownups. Say, if you choose not to be vaccinated that means the following……. Life is going to — PolitiTweet.org

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and caution Clarise approached Hannibal Lecter with ? It’s time to quash the pandemic. It’s time to stop fucking around with the lies and insanity. It’s a time to communicate clearly and directly to the country. It is a time to talk about obligations and responsibilities. — PolitiTweet.org

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all of us hostage? The softness and grievance at the core of Trumps cult is profound. Since when does 25 percent of the adult population suddenly get to demand through some weird assemblage of extremist politicians that they must be treated with the same delicacy — PolitiTweet.org

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Victims of COVID-19, the unvaxxed who virtuously brood and seethe over the condescensions heaped on them as they are assailed by information around a vaccine that can save their lives. What total nonsense. Insanity. Who decided to let these people take — PolitiTweet.org

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stakes are high. We should all reject the idea that we must kowtow to an aggrieved minority and tiptoe around their sensibilities. The idea being promulgated by liars like @SarahHuckabee, that the real issue is feelings, specifically the feelings of the real — PolitiTweet.org

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presidential decision I have witnessed in my lifetime was @BarackObamas decision to order the killing and seizure of Bin Ladens body in Pakistan. If the mission failed, his Presidency would have ended at one term. He understood the situation required him to be all in. The — PolitiTweet.org

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after saying he would do so if they didn’t return to work by his deadline. The Soviet’s took notice. Declassified cables speak to their assessment of a man who did what he said he would do. Similarly, this moment calls for @potus to lead with decisiveness. The single gutsiest — PolitiTweet.org

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and radicalize more people. It cannot be accommodated, appeased or ignored. The great American Statesman, Secretary of State George Schultz once remarked that the single most important foreign policy decision Ronald Reagan ever made was firing the Air Traffic Controllers — PolitiTweet.org

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for inciting panic about a life saving vaccine while Covid is exploding because of the pandemic of the unvaxxed. Trump will use the chaos that is being stoked in his name to attack Biden as weak, indecisive and ineffective. Each attack will increase fantacism, inspire extremism — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is almost certain to be his opponent in 2024 and could be the Speaker of the House in 22. Nationalism is the enemy of pluralistic democracy. Faith and belief in our Republic has been deliberately poisoned by lies about a stolen election. Nihilists are making millions — PolitiTweet.org

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It is good that @potus is a student of history and is interested in the perspective of historians as he makes decisions in a historic moment. He is surrounded by treachery and bad faith in the form of a burgeoning and quickly metastasizing autocratic movement led by Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is an appropriate power for Government to exercise in 2021, just as it has throughout the history of the Republic. The world will shrink for some. It will be their choice. I chose the safe vaccine and am tired of kowtowing to insanity and conspiracy theorists. Mandates now. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AuschwitzMuseum: Candles lit at the mass grave of Soviet prisoners of war at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site commemorated the 80th anniv… — PolitiTweet.org

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for the overwhelming majority of House Autocrats. — PolitiTweet.org