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This QT is my election livetweet thread. Now that things are winding down into a tight endgame with a cloud of murky lawsuits and doubt-merchanting hanging over them... I hereby declare the excruciating lessons learned meta-thread open. Muahahahaha.
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And... we’re off. Indiana called for Trump. Doomscrollers, start your engines.
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Note that lessons are the same no matter who wins (and I’ve already teased many of them in the livetweet thread), but the futures are not. A 4-year rearguard Biden presidency would open up counter reformation futures a second Trump term would foreclose. Huge divergent fork here.
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I’ll run this thread at a slower tempo over weeks/months, unlike the quoted live-tweet thread which is live impressionistic daubs. Not quite cold takes, but not hot either. More like tepid takes. Feel free to shoot good postmortem links my way to react to.
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Lemme index a few topics here for future processing: 1. The charge that Trump was the victim of "unfair" double standards throughout his admin 2. The idea that his loyalty-based appointments and purges are the same thing as the detrumpification that will inevitably happen now.
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3. The idea that the collusion/interference investigation is on the same level as whatever conspiracy theories Trump unleashes about the legitimacy of this election. 4. The idea that Trump vandalizing of a whole slew of governance norms was either harmless or admirable cunning
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The vandalizing of governance norms was neither harmless nor admirable. Seems like we need a third option of "exposed a pretty serious bug in our code."
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