Kevin Baker

Novelist, historian, journalist, political commentator, gadfly

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@portereduardo And except that, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, a majority or plurality of white Americans have not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in 75 years.

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@portereduardo And, except that the individual you first cite, voted for Mitt Romney, an even richer conservative, in 2012.

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@portereduardo I'm sorry—I meant to write, "Except the county you cite voted for Bush, a millionaire conservative, in 1988."

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@portereduardo Except that the individual you first quote voted for George H.W. Bush, a millionaire conservative, in 1988—over 30 years ago.

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@portereduardo Except that the ONLY economic group that voted for Hillary in 2016 was the working class.

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@DaveAlbertson @HegelianSynthol @brooklynmarie @leeeeeeeesssa33 @pareene The piece is brilliant, ESPECIALLY the part about FDR, who kept people in their homes and got them work, which is why they kept his picture on their walls for the next 30 years. Sadly, not so much with #44

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Baseball maven and historian @bakerauthor Kevin Baker will be interviewing Pulitzer-Prize winning architecture critic
@PaulGoldberg and the Museum of the City of New York, on Thursday, September 12th at 6:30. Play Ball! @MuseumofCityNY

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@VivianHMoore @thisismash @joanwalsh @MSignorile @washingtonpost Yes! I keep raising this point, but nobody seems to have heard of Bezos or Amazon here...

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@dadofccx3 @joanwalsh @washingtonpost @nytimes I hear what you and Ms. Walsh are saying, but I can't accept a paper run on money from the most destructive company in America.

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@jenniferscully1 @joanwalsh @CapeQueen75 @washingtonpost I'm often impressed by things I read from the WaPo, Jennifer, but I just can't stomach the awful, destructive individual who runs it. To me, that's blood money.

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@NY1 @LindsayTuchman The "conversation" was had in the 1930s, when minimum wage laws first went into effect. When are you running a series about the runaway rents landlords are charging businesses in this city?

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@LindsayTuchman Hey that's terrific. STOP running one-sided pieces blaming the problems of restaurants on workers getting a living wage. When are you going to talk about runaway rent increases by landlords? Never, I suspect.

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@nycsouthpaw So the aliens killed all the other adults in the world. Those bastards!!

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@billmckibben @Harpers Thanks, man. This means a lot, coming from someone who has done so much in the struggle. Glad to see Krugman was on board the other day, too, concerning the need for us to go big on the Green New Deal.

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@peterbakernyt @BretBaier @FoxNewsSunday @jackshafer So Jack, Pete, now that several thousand intelligent people here have torched your straw man argument, what's your rebuttal?

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@mattbai @YahooNews This is surely the stupidest thing you've ever written. Schultz's people assured you he is the frontrunner? Of course, why would they lie?

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@BradWyatt88 @AOC @jjauthor Ever heard the axiom, "It takes money to make money"? Well, it's often true. That's capitalism, and we're all capitalists, right? But sometimes, you need to re-set the whole game again—at least a little—to let everyone have a chance.

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@BobBron1 @madlib2011 @RinoRooter @AOC Dear Bob: If you really think there are no loopholes in the tax ode now...you need a better accountant!

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@Joan_Vennochi ...the social welfare system Europe has had for almost 80 years??? This is not the moment for a line-by-line ledger of where you will get every penny. This is the moment to let the rich know the highway robbery of the last 40 years is over.