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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Jun 2020

      The kids today don't believe it but in 2018 one major argument the Democrats used was that if they won the House they would do oversight on Trump and check his excesses. Many voters believed them too and it helped the Dems win! Wild times.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Jun 2020
      Replying to @neeratanden

      This would be more convincing if the impeachment hadn't been narrowly focused and ignored the wide swath of Trump's crimes (as even John Bolton acknowledge). Also, if there were checks on Bill Barr & other underlings.

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    4. Neera Tanden 🌻‏Verified account @neeratanden 20 Jun 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      More convincing to who? Impeaching a president is a pretty significant event of accountability for the public. That Pelosi does not clear bars set by you is perhaps less of a problem than you think.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Jun 2020
      Replying to @neeratanden

      Do you think that history will look back on the Trump era and think that the opposition party did enough to check a lawless president?

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    6. Neera Tanden 🌻‏Verified account @neeratanden 20 Jun 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      I do actually. I think history will see three presidents impeached up to this point and one of them was Trump. I think history will blame Senate Republicans for a lack of consequences. And if Biden wins, they will believe the public finally held him accountable.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Jun 2020
      Replying to @neeratanden

      Trump has created a roadmap for how an authoritarian president can govern virtually unchecked even with an opposition party controlling the House. USA is lucky that Trump is so incompetent & will likely lose. But next authoritarian in the White House might not be so incompetent

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        2. Gene Debs  🌹‏ @MLS_Energy 20 Jun 2020
          Replying to @pinkyszombie @HeerJeet @neeratanden

          I’ll take no authoritarianism, actually.

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        2. bIm‏ @0youngbs 20 Jun 2020

          The subtext is sort of hand flailing "Fix it!!!"

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        1. Noble Prize in Sarcasm‏ @rewegreatyet 20 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @neeratanden

          Yes it’s a shame the House Dems havent....asked the Barr run DOJ to enforce the subpoenas that members of the Trump Admin have ignored

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        1. Martín Dixon Pedrals‏ @martindixonp 20 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @neeratanden

          Isn't that more of a problem with oversight itself, having no actual teeth and being based on respecting and honoring norms, rather than what the opposition party does or doesn't do?

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        2. Neera Tanden 🌻‏Verified account @neeratanden 20 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          This is a problem with the Constitutional framework that ensures Senators represent states and not populations, and that requires Senate action for accountability. You should hope Biden wins by a lot. Because then the election would be the deterrent for future authoritarians that

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        3. Neera Tanden 🌻‏Verified account @neeratanden 20 Jun 2020
          Replying to @neeratanden @HeerJeet

          the Constitution did not supply.

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        1. Pineapple Jack‏ @pineapplejack0 20 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @neeratanden

          That's right on except for the cocksureness about Trump's defeat. There's a lot of time till November. And Trump's supporters will all turn out.

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        1. Man in the mirror  ✊🏿 🙏🏾 ✌🏾 🏁‏ @jimmywhart 20 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @neeratanden

          Sorry dude, but you're surrendering that the GOP-controlled Senate is at all NORMAL. It's actually an argument from a frame of white privilege you're too blinded to see. Checks work when operated by good faith actors, not craven opportunists and crackpots

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