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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Jun 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Matthew Zeitlin

    It's true that as a policy busing has no salience. But it wasn't Harris that re-opened Biden's 1970s busing stance, it was Biden himself, by citing with pride his ability to work with arch-segregationists like Eastland & Talmadge.https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1144593627177476096 …

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    The Harris-Biden confrontation is an amazing moment because the policy substance going forward appears to be nil, the specific example she used doesn't seem that relevant to the stance he took at the time, but it was still a meaningful and substantial criticism of his worldview
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      1. NeverGOP Sandra * Right Matters *  🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦‏ @seb4466 28 Jun 2019
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        So the Senate should have shut down until those states threw those Senators out of office? Other Senators are something you have no control over.

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      2.  🇺🇸617to416 🇨🇦‏ @617to416 28 Jun 2019
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        It was a brilliant prosecutorial move. Harris has watched Biden enough to know he wouldn't just apologize for a mistake (his best possible move) but would instead defend his past position. She also knew he couldn't win against her personal story. She set him up and he fell hard.

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      3.  🇺🇸617to416 🇨🇦‏ @617to416 28 Jun 2019
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        But it had a broader usefulness. Biden's (and others') centrism has allowed a lot of bad GOP policy to prevail, providing the GOP with cover to advance even more brutal versions of the same policy. Harris is saying to the centrists, "no, you need to take the left seriously."

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      1. Michael Snow Tires On My S2000 Cohen‏ @mdcohen 28 Jun 2019
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        Here’s a Harris staffer saying she supports busing now.pic.twitter.com/SOSHUggFG7

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      1. terry b‏ @bakerTerryL 28 Jun 2019
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        The whole exchange highlights Biden’s choice to run on nostalgia. He may as well have MAGA as his slogan. If you want to run on the past, you have to own your past.

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      1. mbxxxxxx‏ @Mbxxxxxx1 28 Jun 2019
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        Biden has always had a problem knowing when to shut up.

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