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|content=So please remember that many people on the Left did *not* ever sign up for this idee fixe of the Mueller report as answer to the Trump phenomena. We‘ve not called his presidency illegitimate. And we don’t think his supporters are all nuts. This is a democracy, betrayed by elites.
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|content=I think I avoided all pressure to find Trump guilty of collusion w Russia. And it was a considerable cost on my life. The typical conversation went: “Oh c’mon Eric. He’s clearly guilty. Why make excuses? When the report comes you‘ll have to look in the mirror.”
 
I want apologies.
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|content=It wasn’t (and still isn’t) that I knew. I had no idea. But I also had no idea how everyone else just somehow knew what was actually true. Did everyone have a dossier that I did not? How does this pressure to *infer* unknown things become a Left-of-center mind virus?
 
Let’s stop.
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|content=And one last thing: I’m still of the opinion that Trump is a grave problem & that the people who voted him in deserve a responsible Left of center expression for their real frustrations on Trade, Immigration, Terror and elite betrayal to replace Trump w something more wholesome.
|timestamp=12:26 PM · Mar 25, 2019
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|content=I’d say that old tweet wasn’t too far off after all. We just had it dribbled in increment by increment with changes in “Terms of Service” & the slow crushing push to numb our outrage from our institutional class, article by article, until we welcomed our own censorship w/ thanks.
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|content=I will be coming back to this old tweet repeatedly. A plan to reassert narrative control before 2020 was evident immediately after [[Donald Trump|Trump’s win]] shocked our institutional elite. “Fake news” was its placeholder buying time to figure out how to end rivals to “authoritative sources.”
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|content=It would appear we are being psychologically prepared for a change in the algorithms that direct our attention.
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|timestamp=2:51 PM · Sep 5, 2019
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|content=Since then we have learned about “The Good Censor” and “ML Fairness” at google, “Deboosting” at Facebook, “down ranking” at Twitter, “authoritative sources” at YouTube, the “Alternative Influencer Network” theory at
@datasociety, & the IDW as a gateway to white supremacists. Ha.
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|timestamp=3:03 PM · Sep 5, 2019
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|content=The president’s tweets are there to be reverse engineered. They’re all method. When Democrats call him an ‘idiot’ w/o building an Eliza program to simulate what is beating them, it‘s painful to watch.
 
Why not claim that the person beating you at chess is an idiot?Think about it.
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|content=Trump Tweeting algorithm:
 
It seems [perseverated diminishing epithet] [First name][Last Name] is [anti-trump misportrayal or activity claim] again despite my [claimed Trump accomplishment]. (S)He really should worry about [corruption insinuation]. [Threat]. [Tiny simple zinger!]
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|content=@AlexRussek It’s more confusing than that. I can’t fully figure out how they rationalize Trump. They often have the idea that Trump’s methods are wrong but that they think be does the right thing in the end. I honestly don’t get it. I think that it’s rationalizing lesser evil as they see it.
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|content=Invited on a conservative podcast today. We celebrated punk rock as I politilely told them Trump was obviously manifestly unfit for office & I view their parent org as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party. They couldn’t have been more decent to me.
 
This is how they may win. https://t.co/2vFEorerCJ
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|content=My eyes are open. This isn’t my team. But when normal souls who think normal thoughts have to go over to their competitor’s house to have civil constructive discussion, because their own home often hurls poop at any who won’t tow an incoherent party line, loss has to be budgeted.
|timestamp=11:06 PM · Nov 14, 2019
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|content=Don’t get sold the narrative that Trump now owns ALL US Conservatism. He does own a good chunk of it. But there‘s also a new strain of tolerant conservatism that‘s very liberal: relentlessly civil, anti-inequality, pro-logic, pro-gay, pro-weed, pro-free speech & multicultural.
|timestamp=11:06 PM · Nov 14, 2019
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|content=What is causing this? I don’t know.
 
But one partial explanation is that many normal adults made to feel like pariahs are leaving the Democratic Party & simply taking their liberal values across the street. It’s like visiting a Little Italy, Koreatown or other diaspora community.
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|timestamp=11:16 PM · Nov 14, 2019
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|content=If you think I’m wrong, I’m open to your arguments. But let’s check in with each other after any counter-narrative emerges.
 
I was open to the idea that these hearings would be purely political.
 
I hope you will be open to the idea that this is actually damning.
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|content=As someone who both has been vocal that Trump is unfit for office but who also gets on well with many Trump supporters, I’m not afflicted by Trump derangement syndrome.
 
Today seems to be the day that should begin an exit for fair minded Trump supporters.
 
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|content=To my Trump supporting friends, many of you have been correct about myriad problems of the Democratic Party &amp; its affiliated media. Let that not blind you to what is happening. This man was simply not the solution to our corrupt system. Love you. But look again with fresh eyes.🙏
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|content=My point in criticizing my party is to find a way out of the Trump v Biden/Warren version of non-stop boomer on boomer action. Trump is an enormous problem. If you think he‘s radiation therapy for your Democratic corruption cancer, don’t fall in love with your radiation levels.🙏
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|content=To be honest, I should have been clearer. Let me say a few words.
 
By Trump supporters, I was referring to folks for whom Trump is close to a force of pure good. This goes way beyond lesser or necessary evil perspectives. So I should have been clear about absolute v relative.
https://x.com/keithbrodie/status/1197282556120453120
|timestamp=4:41 PM · Nov 21, 2019
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|content=Next, I was careful not to opine on legality or impeachment. The way I’m viewing these hearings is that they are giving us a look into our foreign policy. Legality is about what we can prove, but judgement is about what we must glean. I wish we could avoid inference but we can’t.
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|content=What I glean about the Trump, Clinton and Biden groups is that they pursue the personal intertwined w/ our national issues at an unacceptable level. I can’t prove that about any of them yet. But Carter, Eisenhower, Reagan or Sanders they are not. So I should have clarified.
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|content=If you want a perspective that is not so far off of mine but from a conservative perspective, @benshapiro made a lot of my points in detail. It’s not “quid pro quo or no” but which one, and the fact that Biden may be the point of investigation or a positive political externality.
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|content=But my issue stands. We’re now being injured as a nation by Trump’s judgment, tactics and quirks. If we are reduced to “That’s perfectly legal” arguments rather than, “we have China, Climate and Russia emergencies” by Trump and Democratic dissembling we are screwed.
|timestamp=4:42 PM · Nov 21, 2019
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|content=Our eye is off the ball &amp; Trump does not become the goddamned messiah b/c he sticks it to corrupt Democratic players. It’s like watching two street gangs fight. Fair-minded Trump supporters should be leaving the absolutist “Trump does nothing wrong” camp now. This is awful.
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|content=End/ So I have the group I look down on (Systemic corruption of the party regulars) different from the group to be feared (advocates of abandonment of the corrupt system to restart history).
 
The folks w whom I get along now have no home: those who get we have to fix ALL this. 🙏
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|content=1/ Too Many Different Stories.
 
Here’s my best guess as to what‘s happening. There was a post-WWII Int’l order. Both US parties agreed to service it. They became systemically corrupt when growth changed in the early/mid ‘70s. This accelerated wildly with the end of the Cold War.
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|content=2/ The parties &amp; Trump represented systemic &amp; idiosyncratic corruption respectively. Systemic had Rep &amp; Dem flavors. The tattered Int’l order is serviced (barely) by the systemically corrupt but repudiated by the idiosyncratic. The new GOP is moving towards the Idiosyncratic.
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|content=3/ We are divided by the following. Some party players benefit from the systemic corruption but are loyal to the two party flavors. Remaining party players want to end the corruption. But they agree on the need to service the Int’l order because of dangers of restarting history.
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|content=4/ The Idiosyncratic players want to use Trump to end systemic corruption (drain the swamp). Some want it so badly that they’ll defend nearly all idiosyncratic corruption. Others admit to idiosyncratic failings but point to the fact that only Trump broke through our MSM defenses.
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|content=5/ The idiosyncratic players (The “Trump Train”) are further divided as to whether the Int’l order is too corrupt &amp; expensive to service or too essential to abandon. The former are divided into isolationists vs those who wish to project new power. The latter subvert withdrawal.
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|content=6/ Why the crisis in communal sense making? We are now micro-divided by pro vs anti systemic rent-seekers with 2 flavors. Anti is further split by pro vs anti willingness to admit to the idiosyncratic corruption. We are divided by isolationists vs maintainers of the order. Etc...
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|content=7/ Where I am: I see 2 party flavors of systemic corruption. And the new idiosyncratic. I see corrupt expensive  foreign entanglements but also no ability to retreat. I also believe great nations are based on communal *fictions* which are being destroyed by our extractive actors.
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|content=8/ This is where we are to my understanding. I *only* really look down on *pro*-corruption folks. I do fear the isolationists have no idea what they’re signing us up for on a thermonuclear planet, but I just see them as confused by BAD foreign adventures &amp; betting the 🌍 on luck.
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|content=[My point about the different faces of Trump portrayed by the Press was real, but I think the article was a gag if I recall correctly. I’d read it for yourself...]
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|content=Thirty four years ago, the liberal paper of the University of Pennsylvania was celebrating “the largest single gift ever received by an undergraduate school” in a banner headline..which I discovered going through boxes after a move.
 
Odd he would become the right wing devil, no?
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|content=We can barely remember how many different people Donald Trump has been to our press in their portrayals: Winner. Star. Loser. Nazi. Greedy pig. Casanova. Generous benefactor. Predator. Symbol of wealthy. Purveyor of tackiness. Promoter of women. Madman. Genius. Debtor. Builder.
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