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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      4. America can recover from a theocracy (in fact it already has: early Puritan settlements). Less easy to recover from a nuclear holocaust

      35 replies 148 retweets 721 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      5. Leaving aside worst case scenarios, the simple fact is that a President Pence would take command of torn, wounded GOP.

      12 replies 59 retweets 410 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      6. If Trump quits or is impeached, the GOP will be ripped apart. Trump has a significant personality cult of 40% of party.

      19 replies 91 retweets 529 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      7. Moreover, if Trump leaves office, he's not going to disappear. He'll still be around (Trump TV!), still tweeting. And he'll target Pence.

      22 replies 87 retweets 568 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      8. Trump won by combining tradition GOP partisans with influx of more white working class. Trump leaving would blow that coalition apart.

      13 replies 51 retweets 376 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      9. Trump is already having trouble governing because of deep divisions in GOP between Tea Party house members & conventional GOP.

      4 replies 51 retweets 314 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      10. Pence would take over the already factionalized GOP and it would have even more divisions (because of angry Trumpists.

      14 replies 49 retweets 326 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      11. Fears that Pence will appoint sexist & homophobic bigots have to deal with fact Trump already is doing that.

      9 replies 144 retweets 679 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      12. Also as a practical matter Pence is implicated in all the things that could bring Trump down. Wouldn't have a clean slate.

      8 replies 72 retweets 461 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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      13. Unlike Gerald Ford, President Pence couldn't say "our nightmare is over." Pence would be dogged by same investigations & scandal.

      13 replies 112 retweets 494 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017

      14. Also, people are overestimating Pence's competence & efficiency. He's the guy who oversaw the transition, which was a disaster.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2017
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          15. When he was in Congress, Pence's fellow Republicans nicknamed him Mike Dense. In other words: not Mr. Competent & Efficient.

          19 replies 301 retweets 911 likes
        3. John‏ @johnlk_80 18 May 2017
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          Wildly unpopular governor of Indiana, widely expected to lose re-election in 2016 before tapped as Trump's running mate.

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        1. jesper‏ @jandersen 18 May 2017
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          Also Indiana was kind of a shitshow.

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        1. Matt Szafranski‏ @MSzafranski413 18 May 2017
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          His governorship was too.

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        1. Gregory Hays‏ @aristofontes 18 May 2017
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          Beneath that dopey exterior, Pence is actually extremely stupid.

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        1. Isaac Rabinovitch‏ @isaac32767 18 May 2017
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          Interesting thread. Now let's talk about President Ryan. I mean Paul, not Jack.

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        1. RandeB‏ @rb08rb 18 May 2017
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          They didn't think there'd be a transition so they put Christie aka @GovernorAsshole on it first tho

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        1. In Search of a Lost Chord‏ @WertherGreene 18 May 2017
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          [eyes return to box of chocolates, gluteus maximus starts to fidget in chair]

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        1. (((Aidan Gilbert)))‏ @aidangilbert 18 May 2017
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          Great. Pres. Paul Ryan - the Randian asshole who wants to give all my money to banks @ make slaves out of all us riffraff. No thank you.

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        1. Linda M Stockstill‏ @Mysize411 18 May 2017
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          I am with you on this too!

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