There'll be a push to make this appear as a big triumph, some version of "our national nightmare is over" because the tweeter-in-chief is gone. The situation is exactly the opposite; unless countered effectively, this week is the most worrisome development of the last four years.
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TIL that many Americans think that Trump had some unique, unrepeatable sorcery, while many around the world look at him and concur that we were lucky and we got an incompetent version—for this time. It won't repeat the same, but the playbook is so common.https://twitter.com/yudhanjaya/status/1324790209758720000 …
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MIT scholar Daren Acemoglu ("Why Nations Fail") also has a piece titled "Trump Won’t Be the Last American Populist" and says"the conditions that produced him need to be understood to be addressed." Acemoglu is also, uh, from Turkey. Compleeete coincidence! https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-11-06/trump-wont-be-last-american-populist …pic.twitter.com/WVDUWbhu1l
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On the one hand, the incompetence is now on full display. Four Seasons Landscaping for the win!
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I don’t think people are processing how close to getting reelected Trump got. Switch ~40,000 (a single stadium!) of the national vote in few states (out of ~160,000,000) and he’d get a second term. Yes, yes popular vote but that doesn’t get you elected.https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1328020355429130241 …
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I would like to submit the name Tucker Carlson.
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Yes. Steve Schmidt thinks this is who will be on the ticket in 2024.
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Isn’t Tucker Carlson an obvious candidate?
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Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Tom Cotton...Ted Cruz
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Isn't the obvious successor, in terms of both craven shamelessness and name recognition, Donald Trump, Jr.?
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@zeynep says "Identifying would-be authoritarians early on and defining them is a crucial job." Good thinking. As a highly effective anti-Fascist activist once said, "No man, no problem."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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