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At last, a little uplift for the Balloon Juice commentariat! (And, yes, this front-pager, who just turned 61.)
The fact that 54% of those voting voted against Trump clearly has him unnerved. Let's remind him every day.
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) November 28, 2016
Speaking of long-range tactics, I think Dana Houle has a good point here:
After narcissism, it’s what was on TV, what the last person he spoke w told him, cruelty, racism/sexism, conflicting goals of his minions https://t.co/LLSOzZBDLD
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 28, 2016
And no, Trump is not a puppet of a cohesive team executing a plan. The Kushner/Bannon/Priebus triumvirate will be acrimonious & chaotic
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 28, 2016
Jared Kushner is a NYC businessman, heir to a convicted felon real estate developer. Reince Priebus is a leading product of the GOP political machine. Steve Bannon is a sociopath who sees the neo-Nazi, white-supremacist “alt right” as a tool for random social destruction, which he finds entertaining / useful for his private goals. (Bannon is acting as the third corner of the traditional GOP Golden Triangle, Business/Bureaucracy/’Church’, which is its own kind of weird American success story.) The three of them have converged, temporarily, to push an aging “celebrity” to the top of the American political pyramid. Their common interests started diverging immediately after Clinton’s concession speech… and the cracks are widening by the day.
Our strategy, as Democrats and citizens, must include encouraging the dissension between ‘good for the Trump/Kushner business conglomerate’ — ‘Good for the GOP party’ — ‘Good for the dank lulz’. Yes, it would be nice if the pivot weren’t Donald Smallgloves Trump, but then again, he’s not going to make life easier for the triumvirate, either.
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Apart from soldiering on, what’s on the agenda as we start another week?
On Monday I will introduce a resolution asking President-elect Trump to comply w/ Constitution regarding his assets. https://t.co/KFt4zPliVS
— Senator Ben Cardin (@SenatorCardin) November 22, 2016
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