It's getting late in the day for this institutional pearl clutching. Trump supporters think that government is fundamentally broken and corrupt, and that Trump is a flawed but energetic guy who is dismantling this powerful oppressive force for the benefit of average Americans.https://twitter.com/OrinKerr/status/1228412755268366336 …
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Part of the reason people like Trump is that he lies bigly to supporters about how his tax cuts have benefitted working families, brought manufacturing jobs to America, and how he's prevented Democrats from taking away health care. So we then attack him for procedural arcana? No!
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The best way to preserve the norms and institutions of American democracy is to win the 2020 election, not chastise the sixty million people who voted for Trump for their continuing failure to be shocked because he's doing what they put him in office to do—tear down government.
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@OrinKerr's tweet as lamenting that people don't share what he thought was a near-universal value. You retort that his lament won't help him gain political power, but I'm not sure that's responsive? I don't think he was trying to change anyone's mind. -
Both are advocating the same value—fairness. Kerr's failure to understand that Trump runs on an appeal to fairness is what I am criticizing. Trump of course is a liar, but he has supporters who genuinely believe he is attempting to dismantle a rigged system, and attacked for it.
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What sort of things should we be attacking him on?
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Corruption!
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