1. Okay, to expand on point I made a bit more. The core error being made by both Dem & GOP leadership is that Trump is an aberration who will soon be gone. That core error leads both parties to give Trump a free pass on stuff that would get pushback from a normal president.https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1134264701616099329 …
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6. If Trump is a transformative figure, a harbinger of a new authoritarianism, it's worth taking risks (building case for impeachment & rolling back presidential power). If he's an aberration, then it's worth just waiting him out for 2 to 6 years.
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7. The core issue, which reasonable people can take different sides on, is: how do we respond to Trump? Is he a freak, in which case goal should be to return to pre-Trump status quo? Or is he transformative & requiring a more radical response?
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8. It's impossible to overstate the degree to which elite response to Trump has been governed by nostalgia. That's why the McCain funeral, where they got to mourn their common past, was so emotional a moment. It's why Never Trump right gets bolstered in the press.
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9. Although this nostalgia politics is very strong in elite, its not confined to elite. Popularity of Biden is from the fact there is a mass politics for people who just want (understandably!) a return to normal. A president who is human, a politics not in crisis mode.
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10. This is a good point. Pelosi is absolutely top notch at strategizing during times of normal politics. Which is why tendency to trust her judgment makes sense. But what if normal politics has gone out the window & a different response needed? https://twitter.com/qjurecic/status/1134278861536014336 …
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Remembering Merrick Garland, who was ignored by one side during the Obama years. How irresponsible to think this is an aberration.
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The vulgar corruption is probably an aberration. Trade might be an aberration. But everything else is normal. We've reached trench warfare in Congress, where neither side has anything the other wants, and both sides assume (correctly?) conflict would not persuade the other side.
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I’ve been using that word, aberration, for 2 years now: the fascist is NOT an aberration, he is the culmination of GOP policies during my entire lifetime. You lose “we are reasonable people who disagree” as an argument when you systematically put kids in cages.
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