True. Trump has a point about the Baltimore Democrats, but as usual, he's (1) apparently reacting mostly to Elijah Cummings pushing investigations & criticisms Trump dislikes, rather than suddenly discovering the plight of Baltimore & (2) doing it in the crudest possible way.https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1155121526179545088 …
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The reason 'whataboutism' comes up so much with Trump is that Trump as a politician is practically the living embodiment of whataboutism. He's half a century of pent-up Republican frustration at things Republicans saw Democrats get away with: "none of that matters? Here. Enjoy."
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The big internal fight among Republicans on this style of politics is between people who think that what works for Democrats is simply "what works" & those of us who think, in the long run, voters come to Republicans for something *different* from what they seek from Democrats.
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All of which comes back to my previous thread on how Republicans have traditionally differed from Democrats in philosophy, structure, & appealhttps://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1152217997781676032 …
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Look, I have no illusions about the fact that positions on oversight in the House, in particular, have been at least 99% pure partisanship on both sides for as long as I've been alive. Nobody who lived through 2011-16 should take this Tweet seriously;https://twitter.com/RepCummings/status/1155132215208161281 …
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Agreed. Cites in this thread.https://twitter.com/varadmehta/status/1155147308104896513 …
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So for power, they are willing to tolerate immorality, dishonesty, ignorance, and racism. Got it.
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I want an off the chain junkyard dog
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