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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Chris Hayes

      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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      Chris HayesVerified account @chrislhayes
      It is just crazy from a constitutional perspective for the president to be running around, invoking specious national security reasons to unilaterally slap tariffs on countries while congress just sits idly by.
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2019

      2. If you're a normal pol like Pelosi or Mitch McConnell, your instinct on Trump is "this guy is a freak, a one-off, a mule. He'll be gone soon." For GOP that means you don't restrain Trump but get as much out of him as possible (tax cuts, courts).

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2019

      3. If Trump is an aberration, a mule who will have no heirs, then you don't have to worry about the precedence he's setting for future presidents. You can safely assume that no one in future, even future Republican presidents, will imitate him.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2019

      4. A lot of what Pelosi is doing makes sense if you posit that she believes what Biden says he does: that Trump is an aberration. If he's such, that reduces the urgency of trying to build an impeachment case since his weirdness won't be repeated.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2019

      5. And if Trump is an aberration, not only is impeachment less urgent but also you don't need to make the political case (one that might win over some Republicans) for rolling back the imperial presidency. Trump is a bad dream we'll wake up from.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2019

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2019

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2019

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2019

      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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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2019

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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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        1. Erik 楚冰冰‏ @eriktruedson 30 May 2019
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          Erik 楚冰冰 Retweeted David Weigel

          https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1130839642620796933 …

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          David WeigelVerified account @daveweigel
          This is the best analogy I've seen; I've been working with "the median voter is exhausted and just wants grandpa to take over so he/she can take a nap." https://twitter.com/amyewalter/status/1130105377671008256 …
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        1. Richard Ensor‏Verified account @richardjensor 30 May 2019
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          What are the odds on a Biden campaign with a centennial “Return to Normalcy“ commemorative bumper sticker that I can buy? Nostalgia within nostalgia

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        1. Margie DeWind (she, her, hers)  ☮‏ @wind_de 30 May 2019
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          A president who is not nuts.

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        1. Melmo GUNS ARE THE PROBLEM MacDaffy‏ @MelmoMacdaffy 30 May 2019
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          It's name recognition and Obama adjacent -- nothing more. It says more about Obama than it does about Biden.

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        1. Josh‏ @joshpitdcmia 30 May 2019
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          Ehh, popularity of Biden is name recognition. Let’s see a couple debates

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        1. Dr. Christina Johns‏ @cjjohns1951 30 May 2019
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          Yep. Heard just that statement at “lunch with southern ladies.” Wanted to scream:I don’t want to go back to normal. Normals what got us here

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