When you get mad and kick the chessboard so the pieces go flying in every direction, technically that IS 3-D chess.
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) July 16, 2019
On these 71/72 analogies, a key issue. Back in I think 1971 Pat Buchanan, then a young aide and speechwriter to Nixon wrote a memo to the president and his top advisors in which he said – and this is close to verbatim but from memory – ‘we need to cut the country …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 17, 2019
3/ around crime. His half was bigger. Watergate upended that briefly. But only briefly. The logic of the Trump presidency is to continually divide the country, maximize polarization. The difference is that Trump’s half is clearly the smaller half. This was true even in victory.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 17, 2019
5/ trying as much as possible to demoralize, exhaust and gaslight the opposition, psych everyone out, trigger spoiler third parties and more. There’s really no 12 dimensional chess. Every day is another Trump tally. More racism and rage to keep his diehards boiling.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 17, 2019
7/ have to overcome those tilted odds. But they can. Because there are more of them.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 17, 2019
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
.@mkraju: Senator McConnell, you're married to an immigrant who's a naturalized US citizen. If someone was to tell her she should go back to her country because of her criticism of federal policy, wouldn't you consider that a racist attack?
McCONNELL: … ?? pic.twitter.com/z5Bpc1hKC6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 16, 2019
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Now *We* Have “the Bigger Half”Post + Comments (186)