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We ALL need to communicate better. But we don't have 3 TV networks and your city newspaper anymore. Every dumbass has a social media megaphone now.The MAGA movement started way back with Bannon and Limbaugh. Social media was like heroin to those low thinkers looking for easy answers. Nothing Biden says will alter the cult. But you know what? Ronald Rump doesn't have a prayer in a general election. Especially this time around when independents will see MAGA extremists threatening everyday folk who get called to jury duty. Rump can't control his crazies. They will act out and reveal the ugliness of their "movement". I'm sleeping way better post Georgia.

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Exactly, 100% spot on!

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Its better to deprive Trump of any attention

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Agreed. Could you tell the 'media' that, please. 🙄

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Sigh..I wish!

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Its very hard to do that because he is a dumpster fire, but they should address it as such and not like he still deserves some kind of reverence or respect. They need to be part o the public shaming

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"Remember not to repeat false conservative claims and then rebut them with the facts. Instead, go positive. Give a positive truthful framing to undermine claims to the contrary. Use the facts to support positively-framed truth. Use repetition". George Lakoff https://press.uchicago.edu/books/excerpt/2016/lakoff_trump.html

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Couldn't agree more! The media repeats ad nauseum all the ridiculous FAKE crap that comes out of congressional MAGA mouths. After many paragraphs outlining just what the wingnuts claim, they'll add one sentence saying it's BS. But by then everybody has clicked away. Looking at you CNN, NYT, WAPO etc.

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My father, a wise working class man, would have but one word to describe DT: Bum

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The silence is deafening! But, it’s difficult to deal with Trump’s sycophants! I’ve never encountered the likes of them! Never will admit they’ve screwed up by giving him unconditional (on steroids) support! Never!

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Guilianian. Great laugh out loud adjective. LOVE of planet could trump love of nation. Wrong verb. . The world is burning up as we spin and congressionaL hearings on Uaps are revealing government cover up.

Space tourism is a thing. AI will rule. Perhaps it's all a nightmare. Or we are living in a version of the The movie Don't look up. It's a tragicomedy of epic proportions. Kind of like .. now.

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As soon as Dems speak mean about Trump, guys like Klein (let alone the GOP thug PR machine) will criticize them for not understanding the "economic anxiety" of the white working class. It's a trap. Biden has many faults, but at least he recognizes how the game is played.

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Sorry, but wrong. I rarely write about the "economic anxiety" of the white working class because I don't think it's as significant as the cultural anxiety of the white and, increasingly, black and Latino working and middle classes. The problem the Dems have, aside from their milquetoast litigiousness, is the feckless extremism of the academic-activist left. And Ahmed Chalabi...sheesh. I remember that guy. He helped delude Bush into a disgraceful war.

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I like your work, but dude...c'mon: know thyself. Writers like you live to critique the left. You've been doing it for 30+ years. There is nothing guys like Biden could do to make you happy. Gavin Newsom is doing literally EXACTLY what you want.....and you are silent about it and whining about the academic left making the working class big mad...it's the predictability, Joe. Biden knows it.

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Actually, I think Biden has been a terrific President. I've written it multiple times. Dude, you might consider actually reading me instead of generalizing about "writers like you." As for Newsom, I'm more a Gretchen Witmer or Jared Polis kind of guy.

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Dude, case in point. Newsom is doing exactly what you want and what you call for: standing up strong to the bullies. I like Polis and Whitmer, but only Newsom is doing what you call for in this very piece.....and you don't like him. See how this works? And, yes, I recognize you have praised Biden. If he got aggressive as you want, you'd flip on a dime and call it unpresidential.

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Wrong again. I wrote just above that it wouldn't be presidential for Biden to do ridicule Trump. I like that Newsom is taking on DeSantis, but he's too California on cultural issues for my taste. Need to see more of him in action. But that's it for now, thanks for your participation here.

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Too Californian = too tough on Republicans. Again, we know how this works. But, again, I enjoy your writing even when I disagree.

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One of the best articles on Trump and the Democrats I have read! Great writing!

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unfortunately Biden cannot speak up because the nuts will then tie him to the lie that he is involved in the indictments. But I do agree that democrats need to start shaming the bully. It wont be easy, because he has proven to be shameless. But he and all his spineless cronies need to be treated like the corrupt liars and bullies that they are. Dems in Congress and the house need to start speaking up and stop being decent about it.

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Saw this (and your name) on the Bulwark. Great article. Completely agree gloves need to come off…like 5 years ago. Called my best friend, Jo-Anne, who asked how her old friend Kenny is.

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Thanks. Kenny is married and has been living in Thailand for the past 25 years. Haven't seen him in a while, but he certainly enjoys life there.

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Wow. I’ll pass that on. Thanks Joe.

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