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1. Senior Editor, The New Republic 2. Work found here: 3. Twitter Essayist. 4. Profile drawing by Joe Ollmann

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  1. 22 hours ago

    Me on how at this point, it would be pretty easy to impeach Donald Trump—if Congress wanted to.

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  2. 22 hours ago

    Something to keep in mind in the coming months: Impeachment is a political process, not a legal one.

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  3. 23 hours ago

    True in terms of most law, not true in terms of Constitution. If Congress wanted to, they could make this constitutional issue.

    Trump on his businesses/conflict q's: "The law's totally on my side, the president can't have a conflict of interest."
    77 retweets 138 likes
  4. 23 hours ago

    "if the president does it, it's legal"

    Trump on his businesses/conflict q's: "The law's totally on my side, the president can't have a conflict of interest."
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  5. 23 hours ago

    Trump likes to tell people what he thinks they want to hear. So of course he's going to sound more moderate talking to NY Times editors.

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  6. 23 hours ago

    Question for any Republicans out there: Is Trump's self-dealing (already in evidence in transition) raising alarm bells, even in private?

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  7. 23 hours ago

    For a variety of reasons, this is a good time to spruce up on your German.

    2016: Just witnessed a WaPo style ruling in Slack on whether to capitalize "Sieg Heil" or not.
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  8. Nov 21

    First Republican pol I've seen to take on Trump's corruption.

    You rightly criticized Hillary for Clinton Foundation. If you have contracts w/foreign govts, it's certainly a big deal, too.
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  9. Nov 21

    What's our sense of Mitt Romney? Would he take a Secretary of State position if offered?

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  10. Nov 21

    1. Farage is member of fringe white British nationalist party, not ruling Conservative Party, 2. British ambassadors are all career

    Many people would like to see represent Great Britain as their Ambassador to the United States. He would do a great job!
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  11. Nov 21

    So, thinks we can have a bipartisan front to oppose Trump's corruption. But I don't see any many Republicans joining.

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  12. Nov 21

    The one thing that gives me hope is that Trump's agenda seems to be petty revenge & small-scale grift rather than Operation Barbarossa

    NYT: Trump used this meeting to push Brits to block wind farms from disturbing views at Trump's Scotland golf course
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  13. Nov 21

    Good thread.

    1. So, about Richard Spencer.
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  14. Nov 21

    10. Sartre, Adorno, Arendt. Just a few years ago they seemed antiquarian. Now must reading.

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  15. Nov 21

    Always be grifting.

    NEW NYT PIECE Trump Pushes Personal Cause With British Players: His Golf Course
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  16. Nov 21

    9. The fascist leader often plays the clown because that supports his message: that the system is a joke, so deserves derision.

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  17. Nov 21

    8. Sartre's analysis of anti-Semitic irony parallels Adorno's observation that fascist leaders are often clownish, deliberately so.

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  18. Nov 21

    7. We've all experience someone making a sexist, racist or homophobic comment & then walking it back "It's a joke. Can't you take a joke?"

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  19. Nov 21

    6. Fascism is a politics of fantasy & insane violence. The fascist uses irony, hyperbole & absurdity as wedge to force open these forces

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  20. Nov 21

    5. Sartre's Anti-Semite & Jew (1944), written while Holocaust was at height, very good on how anti-Semites use irony.

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