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    1. j.r. leonard‏ @J_RtheWriter May 7
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      j.r. leonard Retweeted The New York Times

      1/ With the caveat that reporting on Trump’s finances is good, the tagging of “exclusive” and some of the breathless conversation around this exhibits exactly how loving Trump and hating Trump have become two sides of the same trick coin. Heads they win. Tails you losehttps://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1125898277793206278 …

      j.r. leonard added,

      The New York TimesVerified account @nytimes
      Exclusive: The New York Times has obtained a decade of Donald Trump’s tax figures. They show over $1 billion in business losses from 1985 to 1994. https://nyti.ms/2H46M3n 
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      2/ Information is good. The more of it we have on how Trumpworld works, the better we might be at preventing future versions. And who knows. In an alternate timeline where the media had done this from the beginning, maybe Trump isn’t president. But counterfactuals are hard

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    3. j.r. leonard‏ @J_RtheWriter May 7
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      3/ In this timeline, Trump is president. And the thing his detractors just can’t seem to grok is that Trump supporters know who he is and support him because, not in spite of. The idea that there is some silver bullet that takes him down is appealing, but illusory

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    4. j.r. leonard‏ @J_RtheWriter May 7
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      4/ As someone who dislikes Trump, but tends not to get foamy at the mouth about it, the thing that most irks me is that Trump’s style is all about the creation of fake drama. The trade war is on! The trade war is off! No it’s back on!

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      5/ That unnecessary drama is the exact opposite of what we need from government. Even beyond whether a specific policy is good or bad, the refusal to make credible commitments is one of the most destructive things a government can do. Good governance is boring and predictable

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    6. j.r. leonard‏ @J_RtheWriter May 7
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      6/ But Trump seems to intuitively understand that Americans’ desire for drama has come to surpass our need for good government. We want the dopamine shot that comes from meaningless conflict, so we get unnecessary trade wars and contrived border crises and enemies of the people

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    7. j.r. leonard‏ @J_RtheWriter May 7
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      7/ The thing that becomes apparent more and more each day is the extent to which MAGA world and the #Resistance are both powered by that same mechanism of needless drama. Both are just two unsteady pillars leaning on each other for support

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      j.r. leonard‏ @J_RtheWriter May 7
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      8/ ‘Trump is a billionaire plutocrat! No, actually trump is a business flailure and a fraud!’ This is beyond the need for just information about Trump. It’s about finding the next reason to fire up the news cycle over something that won’t matter next week

      7:32 PM - 7 May 2019
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          9/ I fear that this is he future for the foreseeable future, both the future of politics and he future of the media. But pendulums swing and hopefully our swings back to a more sane mode of discourse

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