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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 May 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted

      1. As the dog returns to the his vomit, so Trump inevitably returns to Obama-bashing. Biden will be the formal opponent, but Trump is much more comfortable going after Obama. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1260562505845354497 …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 May 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Nate Silver

      2. Nate Silver makes the reasonable argument that going after a popular former president is bad politics. Maybe. But Trump, as so often, isn't operating in the world of reason but of feral emotions.https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1259851800544493571 …

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      Nate SilverVerified account @NateSilver538
      Turning the election into a referendum on Obama vs. Trump would seem to be one of the dumbest possible moves for Trump given Obama's popularity, which was pretty good when he left office and has improved since. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-americans-like-obama-so-much-better-than-trump/ …
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 May 2020

      3. Racism is Trump's alpha and omega. From the Central Park 5 to the current blame China campaign, he's ridden on the wave of bigotry & backlash. Being the anti-Obama is his core identity and it's what he returns to in order to rally his base.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 May 2020

          4. One way to understand Trump's career is to realize that Obama's election was a shock to those wedded to America's traditional racial hierarchy, a shock intensified by subsequent rise of BLM. Trump knows is base wants him to be the anti-Obama.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 May 2020

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Greg Sargent

          5. Being the anti-Obama has a policy dimension (overturning Iraq deal, withdrawing from the Paris accord, and, as @ThePlumLineGS notes, the persistence undermining of Obamacare).https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1260580639302090753 …

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          Greg SargentVerified account @ThePlumLineGS
          Amid a pandemic that has killed 80,000 Americans, Trump is urging people back to work while trying to gut ACA protections for millions. Senate Dems just filed an amicus brief against the GOP's insane anti-ACA lawsuit, which Trump fully backs. New piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/13/trump-has-major-vulnerability-democrats-should-keep-pounding-it/ …
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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 May 2020

          6. Trump was elected to restore a threatened racial hierarchy. With the pandemic, we're seeing exactly what that restored hierarchy means in practice: working class POC forced to do dangerous jobs to keep wildly unequal economy going. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/racism-trump-obamagate-election/ …

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        1. Ken Marshall 馬康澤‏ @kendouhua 13 May 2020
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          blaming Chinese government is good but Trump was praising Xi Jinping up to a couple of months ago.

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        1. The GOP sinks their own ship.‏ @Scoot434 13 May 2020
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          Less than a month into the Obama admin conservatives were saying, "you're still blaming Bush for this economic crash?" 😵

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        1. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd 13 May 2020
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          Once Biden's running mate is named we'll get more of his other drive, misogyny.

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