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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017
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      2. The drama around Trump is personal politics at most infinitesimal level: the mental crumbling of a ruler. But big politics still exists.

      4 replies 38 retweets 249 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017
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      3. Drama of Trump as mad king shouldn't blind us to fact that in modern world there is only one engine of lasting politics: social movements

      2 replies 178 retweets 508 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017
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      4. Politics changes when social movements get large enough that they remake political parties. feminism, LGBTQ, religious right, tea party

      3 replies 101 retweets 351 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017
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      5. Tragedy of Obama era is that he demobilized the social movement that brought him into power, only using it during election season.

      18 replies 141 retweets 642 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017
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      6. Conversely, the real strength of American right since late 1950s has been "suburban warriors" who are permanently mobilized

      1 reply 65 retweets 273 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017
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      7.Suburban warriors: the mix of tupperware & Jack D. Ripper politics that led to Goldwater takeover, 1970s tax revolt, anti-ERA, Tea Party

      9 replies 36 retweets 182 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017
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      8. The Dems have had a more ambiguous relation with social movements, trying to harness them but also wary of them.

      9 replies 32 retweets 198 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017
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      9. The denouncing of the base (emblematically the Sister Souljah moment) is much more common among Dems than GOP.

      7 replies 36 retweets 217 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017
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      10. Dem pols ritually denounce base because they are a comprador party, transactionally balancing finance capital with popular support.

      16 replies 79 retweets 418 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017
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      11. Art of being a Democratic politician is to energize enough of population to win vote but not offer too much so not to alienate capital.

      12 replies 106 retweets 413 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017

      12. But with Dems now out of power, there's freedom for a much more aggressive politics (being in opposition allows that).

      8:56 AM - 11 May 2017
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 May 2017
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          13. As usual for Dems, the Resistance is a motley coalition: predominately suburban women (Hillary's base & engine of most social movements)

          13 replies 30 retweets 211 likes
        3. Questions Raised‏ @RaisesQuestions 11 May 2017
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          needs a leader.

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        1. 忍者の神 Marxist-Yeagerist ⌬‏ @delmoi 11 May 2017
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          Dems have apparently decided to emulate the GOP and feed the masses a diet of conspiracy theories.

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        1. Julie Linden‏ @JulieLinden4 11 May 2017
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          With fewer results But we have great dialogues and pat ourselves on the back

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