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

Joined June 2012

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

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

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

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

  5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  16. 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?"

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

  18. 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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