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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

      2. To say the funeral was political is not to insult it -- I'd argue the funeral of any major political figure is inescapably political, an occasion for staking out a legacy and laying claim to a heritage. McCain himself designed it that way.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

      3. The overriding message of the funeral was to contrast, by barely disguised subtweets, McCain's decency & patriotism with Trump's squalor, selfishness & bigotry.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

      4. The problem with the staging of the funeral is that it was designed to draw a contrast between the old establishment (bipartisanly embodied by Bush & Obama) with the off-stage Trump. But that's false dichotomy. That old establishment created Trump.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

      5. As I've been arguing for the last 3 years, Trump wasn't created out of an immaculate conception but is the true heir to generations of bad politics, notably GOP "Southern Strategy" of race-baiting.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

      6. McCain himself illustrates the true complex dichotomy here: yes, he stood up to Trump & offered an alternative nationalism. But McCain, by picking Palin & also fostering conspiracy theories about ACORN, helped pave the way for Trump.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

      7. Beyond the Southern Strategy & Palin, think of all the other elite choices that led to Trump: the lies of the Iraq war, the mainstreaming of Islamophobia, the casino economics that led to the 2008 meltdown, Obama's failure to prosecute bankers.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

      8. We've had decades of elite failure, elite impunity, and elite coddling of racism, elite promotion of anti-intellectualism (think of climate denial). Are we surprised that the end result is President Trump?

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

      9. And also elite tolerance of corruption. Figures like Paul Manafort skirted the law for decades and were welcome by the likes of Reagan and Dole. Any surprise they would take the next step & elect, with foreign help, Trump?

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

      10. The message of the funeral was "The American establishment has a bipartisan contempt for Trump." What was missing was any sense of responsibility by that establishment for creating Trump.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

      11. The failure of the elite to come to terms with its own responsibility vitiates everything at the funeral -- Meghan McCain's righteous anger, Obama's eloquent thoughtfulness, Bush's cutesy candy-sharing.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

      12. The message of the funeral was "once we get rid of Trump, the grown-ups can take over again." Sorry, won't work. You had your chance and you muffed it.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

          13. "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" -- Anton Chigurh. That's the question we have to ask the establishment. The rules they followed brought us here, and now they want us to return to those rules.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

          14. The American elite really thinks they can subtweet their way out of a fascist crisis. It's not so easy, my friends.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 Sep 2018

          15. John McCain was admirably blunt & forthright. We owe it to his memory to be no less honest in our appraisal of him. His complex legacy is that he both helped create Trump & resisted him:https://newrepublic.com/article/150895/john-mccain-dead-obituary-nationalist-vision-eclipsed-trumps …

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        1. Erik 楚冰冰‏ @eriktruedson 1 Sep 2018
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          The good ol' days of illegal Iraqi prisons

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          Bailing out of an A-4 Skyhawk

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        2. Molasses Boy‏ @MolassesBoy 1 Sep 2018
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          The point, I gather, is that the elite gathered today are some of the same people who gave us Trump. An appropriate response might include almost anything but more of their dogged insistence on not actually doing anything to unseat Trump.

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        2. Bec‏ @beccanalia 1 Sep 2018
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          @threadreaderapp unroll

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        3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp 1 Sep 2018
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          Hi! there is your unroll: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1036079508749598720.html … Talk to you soon. 🤖

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