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    1. 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. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki May 23
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Wider Trump corruption was an issue no swing voters were ever going to care about, and that wasn't a base mobilizer either.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 23
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki

      It could never be a salient issue because Dems insisted on candidates who had their own ethical problems.

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    6. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki May 23
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      No - it's because voters don't care about process. Maybe if you could show that Trump did X in exchange for Y financial favor, it might matter. But this abstract "good government" stuff matters only to liberal googoos who aren't going to vote for Trump anyway.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 23
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki

      Obviously Trump campaign disagreed since they made Clinton corruption & emails plus Hunter Biden's sordid history big issues. Fact that Comey letters had such an impact indicates Trump campaign was right.

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        1. StudiesForAPortrait‏ @f_lerner May 23
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki

          Clinton was a singularly disliked candidate, who had been targeted by the RW for years, and who much of the public was ready to believe had a history of corruption. Unclear whether this strategy would have worked as well with a lesser known (male) Dem.

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        1. amanasleep‏ @ticketdust May 23
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki

          Doesn’t this fall under the category of conservatism wanting in groups that the law protects but does not bind and out groups the law binds but does not protect? Conservative -leaning indies very concerned about D corruption but Trump GOP just playing the game elite Ds created.

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        1. Sean‏ @borderlinesmart May 23
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JamesSurowiecki

          Jeet can you explain how either of those things constitute actual "ethical problems" as opposed to being RW-invented scandals that gained traction because of our broken political press

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