Cory Thomas

What is this place

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Keep in mind that Trump‘s persistent delusion and propaganda that 2020 was stolen is essential pretext to his attempting to interfere in the midterms and 2028. He’s been laying that ground since the day he was reelected. Wake up.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms.
https://t.co/GLjDvq7yfu

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@JohnDalyBooks @whignewtons @thedispatch @stephenfhayes I was dying laughing

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@Sec_Noem But January 6 was a bunch of Patriots right??

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@JackPosobiec And even though the redcoats were acquitted (most of them) the event was still a massive catalyst in the Patriotic movement. The victims were hailed as martyrs of British tyranny

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@elonmusk Stock buybacks *cough cough*

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@baseballcrank The problem is our broken primary system.

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@kmclain3 @DavidAFrench I’m having a case of worlds colliding too. I’d be there if AO was at Rollertown for sure.

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@allenanalysis

[David French @DavidAFrench]

The problem, Rod, is that America has faced far worse problems in the recent past than even your list, and yet conservatism did not turn postliberal or Groyper to address them. In the 1970s America was in a far worse place economically, militarily, and socially. Stagflation was destroying the American dream, we had just emerged from waves of political violence that dwarf anything we're experiencing now, Roe had just been decided and abortion was skyrocketing far above present abortion rates.

We had just lost the Vietnam War, a war that cost us far, far more than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We'd gone through waves of political assassinations worse than anything we're experiencing today. Vietnam and Watergate together were a massive blow to American confidence and faith in American institutions.

But in 1980 the right (which had been partially responsible for this sad state of affairs through Nixon) chose a very different path than it's choosing now. The new right of 1980 did not answer this much greater challenge with postliberals and Nazi dweebs.

We did not devolve into a coalition of smirking, vice-signaling shitposters (or whatever the equivalent would have been in 1980). That's the world the postliberals helped build. Not alone, of course. But they helped lay the bricks in the edifice of stupidity, corruption, and malice that is the modern right.

Instead, the Reagan Right of 1980 doubled down on the founding principles, doubled down on faith in the American experiment, and led with both character and confidence. In 12 short years, America and the world were transformed for the better.

The new right of 2025, by contrast, is miring America in division, corruption, and incompetence. It's opened the door to fascism. It's blazing the trail for antisemites. It scorns character. It's sexually libertine and abusive. By their fruit you shall know them, and you and I both know, Rod, that the fruit of the new right is rotten indeed.

[House Republicans @HouseGOP]

Last time we checked the Democrats controlled the House, Senate, and White House.

If there is a government shutdown it's because of Democrats.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Again, this No Kings thing is not my bag. But the almost cultish refusal to understand the point by Trump’s usual apologists is bizarre. Yes: He was lawfully and legitimately elected. But Stephen Miller’s Jacksonian-Wilsonian theory that Trump has a “mandate” to do whatever he wants is anti-Constitutional hogwash (it’s amazing how the position of two of the most iconic Democrats in American history is now the religion of the GOP).

The word mandate doesn’t appear in the Constitution. It is impossible to have a “mandate” to exceed your authority under the Constitution. Even if Trump won an actual landslide (he didn’t), and all of the voters wanted him to exceed his authority, it wouldn’t (and certainly shouldn’t) matter.

I honestly never want to hear the faux right wing eggheady refrain “we’re not a democracy, we’re a republic” ever again from people claiming that Trump can do whatever he wants because “the American people voted for this.” That is the exact opposite of republicanism ffs. It’s also not true. Trump got lots of votes from people who just wanted prices lower or didn’t want Harris to be president. The idea all of his voters pre-approved everything he has done or will do is more cultish nonsense.

Regardless, if the American people want a politician to violate the Constitution that doesn’t give that politician a scintilla more right or authority to violate the constitution. I’m used to explaining this to democracy fetishists of the left. Didn’t expect to spend the last decades of my career trying to explaining it to populism fetishists of the right.

[USED TO BE G.O.P. @Used_To_Be_GOP]

Conservatives like myself, who don’t align with the Democratic Party’s policies but oppose Trump because he’s a lawless sociopath are treated by MAGA as if we are as bad as a jihadist waging war against the USA. They don’t care what you believe, just that you worship Trump.

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@WhiteHouse At any other time in American history, an image like this would have caused nationwide outrage. We fought a revolution because even the hint of monarchy was abominable. How far we’ve fallen.

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@JohnCornyn Your concern seems to be one-sided

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@Titan_III_E @MAstronomers Petrova line

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@jeremyclindsey @SCOTUSblog We just had three 9-0 decisions come out, on DEI, gun manufacturers, and religious liberty. If this court was outcomes based, the three liberal justices would have dissented on all three of these. In fact, each of the three wrote the opinion to these decisions

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@MatthewSharp @TeamTedCruz @tedcruz Trump is intentionally blitzing out EOs with a great many of them being unconstitutional. The courts are designed to be a check on executive overreach. Conservatives used to applaud this. Congress needs to act instead of thinking that laws are made through executive fiat.

[Cory Thomas @corythomas87]

@MatthewSharp @TeamTedCruz @tedcruz None of yall complained when the judiciary rightly struck done Biden’s EOs. In fact yall were stating that they would not be doing their job unless they did place injunctions on his actions. Now that it’s your guy in power the court is all of a sudden overstepping.