Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social

Beware the temptation to downplay the authoritarian threat. Could be president again in 294 days.

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Matt Ferrel 🍦 @mattferrel.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 14:58 UTC

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MechaNinja @mechaninja.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 13:31 UTC

Denial or lies? And does it matter?

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The American Civil War Podcast @uscivilwar.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

Note that many of those analyses of Individual-1's behavior were spot-on. They merely under-estimated his infinite narcissism, the inability to move on with his fortune. He really is a boisterous weakling; he had no plan and desperately bounced from one sycophant to the other.

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Cloud's Strife @jmgreene28.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 14:03 UTC

Source on the 3rd screenshot, if anyone wants to check how naive insiders were to the looming putsch www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...

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Paid Up Antifa Member 😏 @voxpopuli.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 12:54 UTC

Then he'll chock what's left of democracy

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@newmexicanextexan.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

A few hundred thousand of my closest friends and I will make sure that does not happen. We are going to beat the former guy like a drum.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

Downplay it?! I’m positively BORED.

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Lebanon Link 🌎 ✨ ❤ @lebanonlink.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 12:45 UTC

He is already setting the groundwork for denial of a loss and dogwhistling his supporters for political violence.

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Sam @halborski.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 01, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

I expect every single thing Ross Douthat says to be wrong, so that's no surprise. I am curious what planet Mick Mulvaney is from, though.

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