Bruce Miroff

SUNY Albany Professor of Political Science. Author of Presidents on Political Ground: Leaders in Action and What They Face (Aug 2016)

[Steven Ginsberg @stevenjay]

Three years to the day after he announced for president, every story on the front page is about Donald Trump.

[Nick Miroff @NickMiroff]

NEW a Honduran father was so distraught after border agents separated him from his family that he turned violent and was sent to a padded jail cell. He was found dead the next morning after an apparent suicide. https://t.co/HCKwSUYhWu

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

@MattGlassman312 FDR in 1944 campaign?

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Now that Mueller knows the truth from the Cohen office raid, Giuliani and Trump are putting out a transparent cover story on the Stormy Daniels hush money. Shades of the Nixon gang!

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

Even firing Mueller will not lead Cong. GOP to remove Trump because it is too afraid of his base. Only an absolute bloodbath in November might drive it to support removing him.

[Nick Miroff @NickMiroff]

These tweets need stronger borders. The boundaries between fact and fiction are being overrun by caravans of nonsense. https://t.co/tbVKx0J92K

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

Could uber-hawk John Bolton be Trump's most dangerous appointment yet? The Senate rejected Bolton's nomination by George W. Bush to be U.S. Ambassador to the UN.

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‘Where’s Mommy?’: A family fled death threats, only to face separation at the border. https://t.co/jqUat6P0Hq

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

Historical parallel: 1876-1892, Dems win 4/5 popular vote, only 2/5 EC; 2000-2016, Dems win 4/5 popular vote, only 2/5 EC. Party competition at knife's edge.

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

Should Trump be ranked as the worst president in U.S. history? See my discussion in https://t.co/j79i920lWC

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For a country as vast as the U.S., Trump's proposed $20 billion per year for infrastructure is too measly an incentive for states, localities, or private interests to cope with the scale of needs.

[Nick Miroff @NickMiroff]

We’re in a new ICE age of American immigration enforcement under Trump, and the old rules no longer apply. Here’s who’s getting arrested, and why. With @mariasacchetti https://t.co/oC94xp80FR

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

@EJDionne @joekennedy Wonderful and moving piece!

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

Trump's formal speeches are pedestrian prose--no Gerson or Favreau writing for him. But then "Trump's eloquence" would be an oxymoron.

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

If bipartisan DACA fix passes Senate handily and House GOP blocks it, it will be easier for Dems to paint House GOP as the villain in another shutdown--a major difference from the one that ended yesterday.

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

Dems should use hostage metaphor: Trump took Dreamers hostage by ending DACA, will only release them if paid a ransom consisting of his immigration wish list.

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

Electoral impact of shutdown overrated? GOP took blame in 13, did well in 14 midterms, esp. in Senate.

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

Every time it seems Trump has hit the peak of awfulness, he tops himself. His shithole remarks make him sound like an echo of David Duke.

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

Re expulsion of Salvadoreans: Trump may not have an ideology, but he has a cold, punitive worldview, in this case toward people who were in the country legally and whose families will suffer immensely.

[Bruce Miroff @BruceMiroff]

Bannon's apology to the Trumps is reminiscent of the old Bolsheviks' futile apologies to Stalin before he ordered their execution.