We can't let up and miss another chance to stop Miller, or we'll regret it for the rest of our lives.
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We can't let up and miss another chance to stop Miller, or we'll regret it for the rest of our lives.
Noem got canned because Congressional Dems were turning her into embarrassing television day after day. They have yet to even try with Miller, but they should!
Joel is right. Michael Anton's characterization of @lkatfield.bsky.social's book is ludicrous throughout. Of course, for Anton, the mere fact that Field substantively rejects the MAGA right's worldview (after careful consideration) is itself unacceptable, since after all it's an authoritarian one.
💯 — Noem's ouster means that Miller successfully pinned her to take the fall
Can't wait to see all the takes about how Trump has finally realized the gravity of the job and is now pivoting to a kinder, gentler Trump.
Major shake-up in the Trump administration: With the ouster of Noem, some are saying Trump is signaling a new tone going forward.
One down
THIS 💯‼️
Good news that the execrable Kristi Noem has been fired, but Trump should really be firing Stephen Miller, the primary engineer of the vile ethnic reengineering agenda and murderously violent civic tensions that are sucking all of them into a bottomless political sinkhole, Trump included.
"(James Talarco's) message of faith, speaking to the compassion and integrity of our state and speaking with moral clarity about who Trump is and what he represents-I think that does resonate in the Latino community."
Electing Progressive Christians is necessary to end MAGA evangelical hypocrisy.
"Vance now spends every day of his life agitating for a society that sees the people he loves most in the world as undesirable foreigners who should be forcibly deported."
Great @bernybelvedere.bsky.social piece urging us to see Vance as a genuine ideologue:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/vance-puts...
@mikemadrid.bsky.social is great! He's been on the pod and I quoted him extensively in my piece on what happened with the Latino vote in Reading, PA
Very interesting stuff here.
@danahoule.bsky.social
One big thing that James Talarico's primary win shows is that the Texas Latino vote, particularly in rural areas, is really its own constituency. In this discussion, Dem operative @sawyerhackett.bsky.social offers a helpful and illuminating explainer on this group:
newrepublic.com/article/2073...
The discussion literally goes on and on about the need to win over voters of color. He says JT can't win without them. You knew what the discussion says before tweeting this, right?
The forever-raging Lear-like Trump fears Talarico and the Dems’ reassembled winning coalition vs. either incumbent rubber-stamper Cornyn or Paxton, “a far-right, criminally indicted, Republican-impeached fraudster and adulterer who has a toxic political agenda.”
Great read from @aselrod.bsky.social on Trump lingering lovingly over descriptions of violence and death.
"This obsession with the body—and particularly with the body as the subject of serious injury, even death—is a hallmark of right-wing politics in America."
The lifeblood of MAGA is sadism.
"In the predominantly Latino counties of Texas, turnout was both high and strongly in favor of James Talarico. [He] showed that he can compete in those communities."
On the pod @sawyerhackett.bsky.social is great on Texas Latino vote and why Talarico appeals to them:
newrepublic.com/article/2073...
What surprises me about Talarico is that he's a pretty standard religious-left candidate, not very different from a host of Dems who have run on their faith over the last twenty years or so. But the moment is apparently right for him to capture the zeitgeist.
Leave it to the president to help the Rs implode in the TX senate primary. Great discussion today with @sawyerhackett.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social.
James Talarico is "a progressive preacher who can throw a punch," says @sawyerhackett.bsky.social. "He’s someone who can both excite the base and widen the tent."
Sawyer has experience in Texas races. On the pod he's informative on what a Dem win requires (it's hard)
newrepublic.com/article/2073...
Every time Congress hands a president more power, passes another Enabling Law, it's another step toward dictatorship. These powers can be clawed back only by force in the future. Democracy is slipping away. The tyrant and his jackals are here.
Important from Punchbowl News:
"Republicans would prefer to keep their hands clean on the conflict for as long as possible, especially given the uncertainty over how long this could last and how it’ll play politically."
As I've been arguing, Rs don't want to be saddled with this (see below)
"Craven abdication" indeed.
"It’s not enough to demand that officials be forthcoming and transparent. Democrats should argue that Trump has launched what is essentially a vanity war and nothing more...he’s “ruling like a king instead of the elected president of a constitutional republic'”
And MAGA Republicans are complicit:
Now that Republicans have done Trump's bidding by blocking limits on his war powers, remember that in doing this, they are also relieving *themselves* of the obligation to vote on the enormously consequential decision of whether to go to war. Craven abdication.
newrepublic.com/article/2072...
Republicans have betrayed their oath to the Constitution and to their constituents over and over. They are deeply undemocratic. They are a fascist party.
Know this!
Now that Republicans have done Trump's bidding by blocking limits on his war powers, remember that in doing this, they are also relieving *themselves* of the obligation to vote on the enormously consequential decision of whether to go to war. Craven abdication.
newrepublic.com/article/2072...
Well said indeed Greg
Cheers to the people that thought Matt Walsh was making some good points earlier this week...