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Greg Greene@greene.haus |
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Dad. Wiseguy. Deep South expat. 🏠 Los Angeles, Ca. 📇: Comms at Vote Rev. Prior 📇: Malcontent strategist @ Planned Parenthood Action Fund, DNC, Nat’l Dem. Inst., BlueState. Views my own. Also @ggreeneva @ 🐦 & 🐘.
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Greg Greene
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Dems have to get to work building a partisan press, or they’ll be at the mercy of jackals like Dash Sulzberger forever — or for whatever time as a going concern the party has left.
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Greg Greene
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(*sigh*) …
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Greg Greene
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“There is no way to convince the public, because the people who he needs to convince to do that (the media) are never going to [go along]”: mm-hm. This is the problem in a nutshell. Either Dem allies build a partisan press, or having “no way to convince the public” will hobble the party.
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Greg Greene
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“There is no way to convince the public, because the people who he needs to convince to do that (the media) are never going to [go along]”: mm-hm. This is the problem in a nutshell. Either Dem allies build a partisan press, or having “no way to convince the public” will hobble the party.
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Greg Greene
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“In conclusion, interpreting the Constitution to hand presidents dictatorial powers is a land of contrasts.” – that NYT article preview, basically
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Popehat
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
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Greg Greene
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They’ll make great relief from the mandatory square-dance classes.
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Greg Greene
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Yes, but then we’ll have plenty of time to discuss our competing approaches in the camps. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Greg Greene
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You’re getting me. twitter.com/ggreeneva/st...
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Greg Greene
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In more earnest, I’d add: - expanding the House to add ~80-100 seats; - to tick through two items named below at once, amend the VRA to add the “efficiency gap” metric as the trigger for Sec. 5 oversight and preclearance of redistricting; - automatic nationwide voter reg. for federal elections.
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Greg Greene
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Yup, it too.
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Greg Greene
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Yup. I’d say PR statehood _if_ the electorate there wants it — but let’s also add USVI statehood, because the words “Rep. Stacey Plaskett” are music to my ears.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back
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Greg Greene
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When the freedom and the rule of law are well and truly poppin’:
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Greg Greene
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Hard to say! That goes some distance toward explaining why I throw my hands up at all these hypotheticals.
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Greg Greene
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Oh, sure. But it’s just as relevant to considerations about turnout among Black women and wine moms in swing states, TBH.
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Greg Greene
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Dang, now I’m feeling self conscious that I haven’t pulled the trigger!
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Greg Greene
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Mm-hm. Against the backdrop of Trump’s ugly comments about Black female prosecutors he’s faced — Fani Willis and Tish James — this seems like an absolute certainty.
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Greg Greene
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Having observed this all the way back to Bill Clinton and the Times’ huffing of ‘Whitewater’ into existence, I’ve seen enough to conclude:
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Greg Greene
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Extremely grim. Appalling.
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Greg Greene
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(* less molested messages, anyway) (** seriously, Dash represents the same sort of petty-tyrant chieftainship as Trump — he inherited a business through accident of birth, showing no particular talent on the way, and presumes his inheritance grants him special wisdom to lord over the rest of us.)
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Greg Greene
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The below, yes — and the clear-eyed commitment to build a partisan press that permits Dems to both (a) deliver unmolested messages to voters, and (b) tell the Dash Sulzbergers of the world to sod off.
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Greg Greene
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The below, yes — and the clear-eyed commitment to build a partisan press that permits Dems to both (a) deliver unmolested messages to voters, and (b) tell the Dash Sulzbergers of the world to sod off.
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Greg Greene
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“Gemütlichkeit,” I sobbed (over a massive lager stein).
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Greg Greene
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Correct: “It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system. It sees itself as the enforcer of the separation of powers, but not itself subject to that separation.”
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Greg Greene
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To repeat what I wrote a few days ago: if the undaunted sorriness of the Times this cycle doesn't convince at least a funder or two of the need to scale up a Democratic partisan press, nothing ever will.
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Jamison Foser
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the New York Times has descended into total nihilism; it doesn't give a damn about the truth, only about damaging Democrats and helping Trump. So it presents a video it acknowledges to be misleadingly edited as evidence for its thesis.
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Greg Greene
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Mm-hm.
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Greg Greene
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Heh — I did, but at least for this discussion’s purposes my follow-up tweet probably covers my thinking here.
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Greg Greene
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This said, Cooper isn’t all wrong here. (The 270-EV question is whether the press pack will let this discourse end _even if_ the ticket changes.)
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Greg Greene
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Pretty sure Dash Sulzberger’s lapses (of news judgment) and John Roberts’ lapses (of fidelity to his oath) concern me a great deal more than the disputable ones the Times keeps hyping.
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Greg Greene
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You ain’t wrong here.
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Greg Greene
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“Mica told me, ‘I just realized that you’re doing this instead of having a mid-life crisis.’ I said that was a very generous way of expressing it, but he’s not wrong. I’m in mid-life, and I’m not in crisis. I think what I’m having is a mid-life opportunity.” I think I’ll enjoy reading this series.
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Greg Greene
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As big as they come.
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Greg Greene
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Pardon my French, my asperity, or my profanity, if you can find any forgiveness within you — but f–– Jared Golden.
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Greg Greene
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Hear, hear.
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Greg Greene
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🎯: “[Trump v. United States] doesn’t change the Constitution any more than a foreign army occupying New England would make Massachusetts no longer part of the United States. That may seem like a jarring analogy. But it’s the only kind that allows us to properly view & react to this Supreme Court.“
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Greg Greene
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Raise your hand if you feel any surprise at all at seeing Eugene Volokh go mask-off here:
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Greg Greene
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Greg Greene
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As a former NDI (a democracy-promotion NGO) employee: same sentiment as Drew here, hard same.
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Greg Greene
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Ah, the mastermind of the Texas abortion-bounty law has now sued on behalf of mostly anonymous white would-be faculty “who have better credentials, better scholarship, and better teaching ability.” He’s like a bad penny, turning up everywhere.
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Greg Greene
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“Concerns of plagiarism roil top of Democratic ticket: As Claudine Gay becomes presidential candidate, her doctoral work draws new scrutiny. Anemona Hartcoolis reports.”
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Tade Thompson
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I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
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Greg Greene
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Exactly.
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Greg Greene
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Yup. No more law wizards. Restructure the court.
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Greg Greene
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In any case: no more kings, sure — but no more law wizards, either. Expand and restructure the court.
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Greg Greene
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(The article originally visible above, since the post that featured it no longer exists:)
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Greg Greene
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tired: “the Constitution in exile” wired: the Constitution, in exile.
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Greg Greene
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For the courts’ friends (i.e. Republicans), everything; for the courts’ enemies (Democrats), “the law” — through whatever funhouse mirror a captured judiciary prefers to skew it.
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Greg Greene
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The position of the federal judiciary is that presidents must hold infinite power — except if the office is held by a Democrat, in which case every executive jot and tittle requires swift, strict, and unforgiving scrutiny.
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