A sampling of why Democrats would be ill-advised to defend their governance of Baltimore https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/politics/mayor-baltimore-resigns-book-scandal/index.html … https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/baltimore-police-commissioner-charged-with-failing-to-file-taxes/2018/05/10/42e55566-5488-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html?utm_term=.de2fb6376bc3 … https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/12/baltimore-mayor-election-stephanie-rawlings-blake-freddie-gray … https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.ci.dixon03feb03-story.html … https://nypost.com/2019/07/22/baltimores-new-deputy-police-commissioner-gets-mugged-at-gunpoint/ … https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/charity-run-by-wife-of-elijah-cummings-incurs-new-ethics-complaint … https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/03/07/baltimore-police-department-disbands-plainclothes-unit-after-racketeering-indictment …
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Stephen L. Miller
Exactly. Look, Trump is responsible for Trump, & is an expert at distracting from that. There is also a reason why guys like Cummings also don't want anyone looking to hard at their own record or that of the political organization they come from. Easier to rant about Russia.https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1155127089726742529 …
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The longstanding pattern is that corruption flourishes best when a single party controls an area - especially one with lots of poor & working-class voters - & cements that control by racial/ethnic/cultural appeals, so the voters will put up w/anything before changing sides. https://twitter.com/DrunkenPromises/status/1155128819575119874 …
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That dynamic is not unique to one party, one race, or one ethnicity, but historically it's much more likely to flourish in the kinds of urban enclaves that Democrats have dominated since the 1830s.
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1 of the reasons for conservatives to dislike Trump: he reeks of the same political style Dems have deployed to run those urban machines as a grift on the backs of a variety of racial & ethnic & immigrant groups for nearly two centuries, playing to their resentments & tribalism.
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1 of the reasons Trump's fans love him: they see the immune-to-everything partisan hammerlock that Cummings & the Baltimore Dems & other urban machines have on their voters, & they want one of their own who fights the same way.
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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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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dan McLaughlin
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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Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrankAlso, the Whigs couldn't apply their founding principles to new circumstances because the Whigs didn't have any founding principles. There were principled Whigs and a Whig agenda, but there was no agreed set of Whig principles. eg, the party's embarrassed incoherence on slavery. https://twitter.com/NateBell4AR/status/1152217017405100033 …Show this thread6 replies 5 retweets 20 likesShow this thread -
Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Elijah E. Cummings
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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Elijah E. CummingsVerified account @RepCummingsMr. President, I go home to my district daily. Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors. It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents.Show this thread3 replies 9 retweets 36 likesShow this thread
Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Varad Mehta
Agreed. Cites in this thread.https://twitter.com/varadmehta/status/1155147308104896513 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Can you stop defending obvious racism?! Yes, needs improvement, but Jesus Christ with the deflections.
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At what point do we get to move beyond the “actually the thing/person the President attacked is bad” argument? He’s shouting back at FNC and we get this moralizing about the virtues of his opinions... ffs guys.
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