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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Feb 2021

    1. Biden has gotten a lot of mileage playing off the ambiguity inherent in the word "unity." Thanks to his win and inauguration, unity has become one of the watchwords of American politics, but it's vague enough to contain radically different meanings.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Feb 2021

        2. Unity could mean old fashioned bipartisanship (no longer possible under current polarization but much missed by centrists & evoked by Biden), not antagonizing Republicans (which is how GOP & Fox use it) or rejecting racist extremism (also evoked by Biden).

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Feb 2021

        3. So far, the unity rhetoric has played to Biden's strengths and in fact has helped bolster a robust stimulus (unifying because popular with vast majority of voters!). But GOP will continue to exploit ambiguity as well. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-gop-unity-trap/ …

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      1. Matunos  💉 💉 💉‏ @matunos 5 Feb 2021
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        Unity among Democrats will be just fine thank you very much

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      1. Rapid Homes, Rapid Bike Barriers, Rapid Busses!‏ @FlipperForty 5 Feb 2021
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        Unity and snagging a couple of GOP votes every now and again are different things, and I took his campaign to mean the latter and not the former.

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      1. Ted McKinnon‏ @tmckinno 5 Feb 2021
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        I guess this is good

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      1. Sunny Jim‏ @sunnyjim4 5 Feb 2021
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        same for stopping support for "offensive" military operations in Yemen. SA views all operations as defensive. This is DLC triangulation speak that corporate Dems have mastered since the 90s. In older days we called this lying.

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      1. Dr Old Grump‏ @Caneshaker 5 Feb 2021
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        I misread that as "racially different meanings." But that makes sense, too.

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      1. Evelyn Stack‏ @EvelynStack 5 Feb 2021
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        He can’t unify the parties but he can unify the country by putting out policies that the majority of the people (remember us?) approve of and want.

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