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Opposing the uniparty is hard and requires focus. The key issues aren't left vs right - they are outsider vs establishment

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@ddayen It does change peoples lives if they lose faith in our voting system. And when you have massive shifts in results from day of results to the final outcome, people are going to be suspicious, especially when their preferred candidate loses out.

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@AsadFromNYC It shouldn't be hard to grasp. If Netanyahu is sending letters to congresspeople talking about it being his plan, that tells us everything we need to know.

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@emilyjashinsky Reading The Devil's Chessboard right now, so this is wonderful news.

(I hadn't heard this story before, but the book starts with Allen Dulles, who ran S&C, using his role at OSS to protect their German client's interests during WWII)

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@SamGradyWrites Never a bad idea to go outside, but I'm befuddled by this response

You made an astute point about the establishment contradicting their stated priority - but then you get upset at someone questioning if they actually believe the priority? You made the case for me.

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@moetkacik @MarkLynchSC Man, this is going to feel like the biggest missed opportunity in a while if LG ends up with like 52% of the vote. I can't believe the folks bitter about Massie losing didn't get more vocal about this - that definitely needs to be fixed if there's a runoff

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@ryangrim In a sane world 80 year old leaders would have shifted their attention towards mentoring the next generation and the generation after that. Bernie does spend time doing that - but the success of that next generation is his true legacy. Anyone asking him to run is a fool.

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@zeteo_news Yes - this is the absolutely correct framing - it's a rorschach test about what matters in our political system

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I know you're skeptical of Tucker's goals, and I'm not trying to persuade you otherwise. But don't focus on him, focus on his audience.

He's a genius at building an audience, and is currently showing that he believes an anti-war, populist economic message is what his audience wants - you should 100% be trying to reach that audience.

Avoiding them out of fear of backlash is a great example of the "redirected towards dead ends" metaphor you used.

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@JerusalemDemsas Jerusalem, I enjoyed your podcast with Andrew Sullivan - it seemed like you had a pretty good sense for the failures of mainstream Dems.

So why on earth would you take the mainstream's side on another hit piece news cycle. This is approaching definition of insanity territory.

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Megan - I don't understand your view here. For the uniparty, there's no difference between Janet Mills and Susan Collins - they will both be loyal soldiers. People are supporting Platner because he's not just another democrat.

You just retweeted a comment about Max Miller. You understand there are a lot of people in DC with skeletons in their closet. But there's a NYT hit piece on one of them because he's a threat to the establishment.

Are you supporting the uniparty here? Why? I see this as an extremely clarifying moment in our politics, regardless of what we think about Platner as a person.

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@Tyler_A_Harper @grahamformaine Agree completely on character - we all need to be holding ourselves and our side to a higher standard.

But it's not character to snipe at your opponent's lack of it, and the critics of Platner have proven they don't actually give a single F about character.

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Cool - obviously I hadn't listened to the podcast yet. I was just responding to how you framed it in the post

I just get annoyed when stories like this are given oxygen just because the uniparty wants them to - they do not have our best interests in mind!

Keep up the good work

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@HunterBiden @ATTRM_69 It's increasingly clear that 1) there is a group of people dictating to our elected leaders and 2) your experience is an example of how they gain leverage over our leadership class.

Any evidence you can provide on who they are and how they operate would be immensely valuable.

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Tucker has been making comments along these lines for a while now - he had a long conversation with Charlie Kirk about it last year, including this part:

But how did we wind up on the side of the money lenders? I mean, at no other time in history has that been considered a virtuous business at all. I know a million people in that business, finance we call it, but I don't understand why they became immune from criticism. And that's, I mean there are places where, you know, loaning, I borrowed a lot of money in my life and I'm grateful for it and all that. But I don't think it's virtuous. And I don't think we should say that it's virtuous. I don't think the people who should do it, who do it should be above criticism. I don't know why is the right participating in basically a coverup of a crime against people.

https://t.co/72er5WQL18

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@ggreenwald Did you get the sense that the participants really believed what they were saying, or were they more actors that agreed to defend Trump no matter what? From the clips I've seen, it seems more like the latter - they don't seem like the Trump supporters I've known

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@JakeAuch This was a humiliation ritual. @RepAuchincloss just proved he would do whatever he's told, and now this incident will stay with him the rest of his career.

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I love the framing of filling a vacuum. It serves as one of the best explanations for the common question - what does Tucker really think?

But it means that even people who strongly dislike Tucker should be taking him seriously and trying to craft messages that appeal to his audience, because that audience is large, and even if Tucker's views are artificial, the audience actually believes it.

So now it's clear that there's a big part of the conservative movement that responds to an anti-war, anti-AI, anti-corporatist message (trust me, Tucker hits on that a LOT). That's why I'm so optimistic about a left/right anti-establishment coalition and wish someone would take the lead on building that movement.