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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 May 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted The New York Times

      1. It increasingly feels like Biden, if he's the Democratic nominee, will be Hilary Clinton 2.0, but worse. A campaign based on personal revulsion against Trump, nostalgia for normal politics, & outreach to moderate Republicans.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1124667509242777600 …

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      Joe Biden says the Trump presidency is an aberration, and that he doesn't represent the Republican Party. Some Democrats think that is naive. https://nyti.ms/2H0fZd1 
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 May 2019

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      2. Biden is Hilary Clinton but worse. Clinton generated real enthusiasm as a pioneering woman. Also Clinton made some efforts, admittedly awkward (hot sauce!) to reach the young. Biden's message is people under 40 need to fuck off & die. https://twitter.com/IbrahimAS97/status/1124116716169113601 …

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 May 2019

      3. Both Clinton (with her alt-right speech) & Biden (invoking Charlottesville in announcing his campaign) had campaigns using rhetorical anti-racism as glue to hold together Democratic coalition. This type of performative wokeness is, alas, of limited electoral utility.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 May 2019

      4. To be clear, Democrats need to have an anti-racist message but it rings false from white candidates who have the track record Hillary Clinton & (much more so) Biden have. GOP discouragement campaign aimed at black voters in 2016 focused on this & will again in 2020 with Biden

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 May 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted The New York Times

      5. It's not just Biden. It's the Democratic leadership class. Pelosi is also committed to making 2016 a rerun of 2020 with Dems making a pitch to moderate suburban Republicans.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1124720372547510275 …

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      Speaker Nancy Pelosi's “coldblooded” plan for defeating President Trump, who she worries would challenge a slim Democratic victory in 2020, focuses on moderate voters and avoiding a protracted impeachment bid https://nyti.ms/2VgNRMI 
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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 May 2019

      6. The operating theory of the Democratic leadership seems to be that the problem in 2016 was Hillary Clinton was a woman, so if you run the same campaign against Trump with a male candidate (Biden), you'll win.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 May 2019

      7. Let's say Biden is the candidate & he runs (as he wants to do) a campaign aimed at suburban moderates. 2 questions: 1. can he beat Trump? (Yes, because Dem coalition will be super-mobilized by anti-Trump feelings) 2. Will victory be lasting? (No.)

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 May 2019

      8. I have no trouble imagining Biden winning a reprise of 2016, with Obama coalition & weaker working class support offset by suburban moderates. But such a coalition seems unstable, unlikely to survive long without antipathy of Trump. Those moderates will edge back to GOP.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 May 2019

      9. The stuff Biden will say to win suburban Republicans will dampen enthusiasm among young & among working class, if not in 2020 then soon after in subsequent elections. And GOP will be able to run candidates who borrow Trump's politics without his personal failings.

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        2. Infinite Monkey Theorum Account‏ @NoFortunate 4 May 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Jeet, the Bernie left has had almost 4 years to put together a winning coalition. Only 3% of Justice Dems won in 2018. Forgive the Democrats for sticking with what works.

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        1. Aryeh Cohen-Wade‏ @AryehCW 4 May 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          But Trump's "policies" don't meaningfully exist, aside from immigration and Korea he's just let the congressional GOP run the show.

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        1. Roshan Mody‏Verified account @iamroshanmody 4 May 2019
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          Biden is sui generis amongst the candidates: he is the only one not addressing the root causes that brought us to Trump.

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        1. ideas whittler‏ @IdeasWhittler 4 May 2019
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          jeet there is an entire democratic party leaning political consultancy class for whom this thread is a panglossian wet dream of their future. biden winning would inevitably mean the democrats will have as little governing responsibility for the next decade or so.

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        2. Neera Tanden 🌻‏Verified account @neeratanden 4 May 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Millennial turnout was high in 2018 for moderate and liberal candidates both.

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        1. Thee Skeptical Dog.  🌻  ☮️‏ @Utleyjacobite 4 May 2019
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          This is a great deal of codswallop.

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        1. Rumdood  🌻‏ @rumdood 4 May 2019
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          @threadreaderapp unroll

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        1. AAmom‏ @AVD911 4 May 2019
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          Finished? You remind me why I cancelled my New Republic subscription.

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