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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 23

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Ken Klippenstein

    1. Theory there is a large body of GOP voters who will jump ship if they present a sufficiently centrist face against Trump has been tried repeatedly: in 2016 it yielded a narrow Trump electoral college victory, in 2020 an even narrower Trump electoral college loss.https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1528722559881166853 …

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 23

        2. Dem leadership even before Trump was to try and use GOP extremism to win over suburban white Republicans. It's yielded some victories but has also come with a price, with Dem losing non-college voters (not just whites but increasingly POC) to GOP or demobilization

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 23

        3. More broadly, search for GOP voters has governed how Dem leadership opposed Trump: i.e. the decision to focus on Russiagate as against wider Trump corruption (see Saudi Arabia). This too hasn't yielded much in way of winning over voters.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 23

        4. Beyond electoral politics, Friedman program (ancien regime restoration of elite comity) effects the political culture: it reinforces Trumpian narrative of a corrupt status quo elite united against him. In effect, Friedman provides fuel for the fire of anti-system politics.

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 23

        5. In short, if your goal is to destroy American democracy, follow Thomas Friedman's program of ancien regime restoration via elite comity. If not, try to think about organizing political coalitions that can defeat Trumpism.

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      1. Ken‏ @MandatoryTopic May 23
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I don't really feel like Clinton was "sufficiently" centrists but I agree that the Biden win was much more narrow than it would need to be for the theory to feel robust

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      2. Peter Klausner‏ @PeterKlausner May 23
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        How was the 2020 EC loss narrower?

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 23
        Replying to @PeterKlausner

        40,000 votes shift in 3 states would give you Trump re-election

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      2. Mark Shatraw‏ @09mshatraw May 23
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I guess what Friedman's trying to say is "Centrism has never been tried"

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      3. זָכוֹר אֶת יוֹם הַשַׁבָּת לְקַדְּשׁוֹ‎‏ @Sandwichman_eh May 23
        Replying to @09mshatraw @HeerJeet

        "That thing you do every election has never been tried."

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      2. Dollar Store Publius‏ @Xeynon May 23
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Clinton was seen by voters as much more liberal than Trump was conservative. If Sanders had won the nomination he likely would've lost in a landslide.

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      3. Drew‏ @DTaylor_19 May 23
        Replying to @Xeynon @HeerJeet

        Actually Democrats could have nominated literally any other person on the planet and won. Clinton was just that disliked, fair or not.

        6 replies 0 retweets 92 likes
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