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I know Scott Singer and I'm proud to know him. He's a good, honest person who was disgusted by Trump from the beginning. You'll find my book Good Intentions is dedicated to him and his wife Mary Ruth. The book arose from conversations with them, their bafflement at fellow Catholics for Trump.

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rebel288 @rebel288.bsky.social · 1h

He's "Decompensating" "Psychology: to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions." Dictionary.com ****Expect more brazen & outrageous behavior from the #MadKing

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

Trump just raged wildly at Dr Annie Andrews, the Dem Senate candidate taking on Darline Graham in South Carolina, smearing her with vile anti-trans slurs. Turns out two GOP-aligned polls just found the race very close. Details on these GOP polls and much more here: newrepublic.com/article/2163...

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Trump Spirals into Crazed Fury as GOP Pollsters Deliver Very Bad News

As Trump explodes at South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews—who is doing surprisingly well in GOP-aligned surveys—a Democratic operative in the state discusses the very uphill climb that lies a...

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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 1h

It would be wild if Lindsey Graham’s prophecy about Republicans picking Trump and getting crushed came true in his sister’s senate bid in South Carolina

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 2h

It's still a reach, but I think SC is nosing into Kansas hope territory. At a minimum, it's bad for Rs. They're already spending to try to save Darline Graham.

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Michael Pachter @michaelpachter.bsky.social · 2h

A real test of the impact of advertising on the cult

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3h

What did I say about: (a) Scott Colum and (b) Annie Andrews. The South is more diverse than Maine or Kansas or Iowa. In a wave year, who knows?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

As I suggest in this pod discussion, if someone told me a decade ago that the two 2026 Senate races that Dems would be running away with would both be in the South (Georgia and North Carolina), I would have thought it's utterly nuts

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

Another nugget: Jalisa Washington-Price, veteran Dem operative in South Carolina, tells me Annie Andrews probably needs 15-20% of GOP voters to win. On the pod we discuss Trump's wild tirade about Andrews and two GOP-aligned polls showing the race close: newrepublic.com/article/2163...

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Trump Spirals into Crazed Fury as GOP Pollsters Deliver Very Bad News

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Trump Spirals into Crazed Fury as GOP Pollsters Deliver Very Bad News

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

Worth watching: South Carolina Dems are starting to roll out ads featuring GOPers endorsing Dem Annie Andrews. On our pod, Jalisa Washington-Price, who runs a PAC, says a $2 million ad buy is set to feature a former GOP lawmaker from a deep red county: newrepublic.com/article/2163...

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Brian Young @brianyoungan.bsky.social · 20h

Forever, there's been this weird idea that if the GOP can build a coalition that includes the racists and minorities, they will really be tough to beat. And, I guess! But shockingly, that coalition can't hold

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t know what ICE enforcement has been like in South Texas. But the attack on birthright citizenship can’t be ignored.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

Key point that @aselrod.bsky.social makes here is that some of these figures offering the most vile male-supremacist responses to this have gigs within mainstream media as well:

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Doug Thompson @drdougthompson.bsky.social · 17h

Suggests the internal polling triggered a red-flag warning in GOP to move money from NC.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

Cook Political Report just shifted the Kansas Senate race from Lean Republican to Toss Up. Trump won Kansas by 16 points, 57-41. Hard to know what to make of this, but it sure looks as if there are now many paths to a Dem majority.

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 22h

Trump's response to the decline of his "movement" is to be more casually and ostentatiously evil, and even to invite the nuking of "Democrat" cities--laden with the immigrant and non-white Americans Trump and his followers identify as their true enemies. No wonder most Americans are recoiling.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22h

Almost at Bill Clinton election and Obama election peaks. Interesting

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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Adding a couple of thoughts about this convo, which really was very good. With Talarico, Hamilton and others, do Dems suddenly "get" religion? Do they need to, in order to win the midterms or create a new moral politics? No, I don't think so.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h

I'm so old I remember when this poll/metric inspired a thousand hot takes about the Dem Party image being irretrievably damaged by cultural excess via @simonwdc.bsky.social's indispensable newsletter... www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/dems-up-11...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23h

Wow. In case you think this is only about the economy, data we obtained shows that in South Texas, Latinos now disapprove of Trump *on immigration and the border* by huge margins. South Texas was locus of the vaunted "realignment." Immigration has helped unravel it. newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The lifeblood of MAGA is sadism: a desire to inflict pain on women, minorities, LGBTQ people. A lot of people don't necessarily feel comfortable saying that on an individual basis, but when they go to a rally, they can chant hateful, racist things and get that glee, and they're kind of anonymous.”

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's really clear that "social permission for bigotry" is the real animating spirit behind MAGA, and "anti-woke" politics in general. It's a hate movement for losers who can't handle living in a society.

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install.exe @handle.invalid · 06/10/2026

Numerous articles have shown immigrants pay far more into society than they get back (including into social services whose benefits they are unable to enjoy) but MAGA just doesn't care. Instead they lie, call immigrants an economic drain, and dress up cultural grievances as economic populism.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 06/10/2026

I think @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is really onto something here and that it's related to something @polphilpod.bsky.social has said in a few places; what collapsed was not liberalism, which in some ways is more strongly felt and committed to by more people than ever, but conservatism

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Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did

We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The Two Minutes Hate was… a hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump's Ohio rally crowd chanted: "Deport! Deport!" But don't overlook this: New NYT poll finds Trump underwater *on immigration* even in Ohio, which he carried by double digits. MAGA sadists are yelling in a shrinking bubble. Check out our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2162...

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chitowndane.bsky.social @chitowndane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

👇This has always been a key component of his allure: he makes it "ok" for racist/sexist haters to hate openly again. And they've longed to do so for years. But those people are still wrong, and we should still stand up to them and call them out on it. And don't forget who they are. ✊

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At Trump rallies, people "can chant hateful, racist things" while remaining "kind of anonymous," says @amandamarcotte.bsky.social. They might not say this individually, but "there's safety in numbers." On the pod she so good on how MAGA copes with a sunsetting Trump: newrepublic.com/article/2162...

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Trump Rages over Sagging Rally Crowds as GOP Panics: “Five-Alarm Fire”

As Trump’s rallies fail to ally GOP midterm fears, the author of a piece on his diminishing stature explains how his cascading failures are driving away his supporters right when he needs them most.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, that's discussed in the excerpt from my piece that's in the tweet.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Media that suck up to Trump for business reasons (such as Meta and Google) need to realize that an anti-fascist movement is here and they need to get aboard." Something tells me that if Ds win it won't be widely interpreted as a major verdict on the future direction of US culture, as 2024 was.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Of course. This goes without saying. It's even discussed *in that excerpt from the piece,* which perhaps you didn't read. But they can *vote* to defund these things, and then if/when Trump vetoes, they'll have to decide whether to have a government shutdown fight.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026

you know if the power of the purse includes the power to fund agencies, it surely includes the power to say "on absolutely no condition may you spend any monies on this bullshit"

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, 100 percent. There's no reason why a Democratic House can't defund both the Office of Remigration and third-country deportations more generally. As I reported recently, here's what's being discussed: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 06/10/2026

No matter how petty. The goal is to make it look like he was never there, never existed.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.

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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congress needs to audit the White House and cut funding controlled by the president to the bone. What’s the minimum budget required for him to be housed, fed, and staffed to do the basics of the job? That should be his annual budget. Let him ask Congress for more as he needs it.

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"We are headed in a direction where what comes after Trump...It’s going to be even nastier, it’s going to be even more corrupt, it’s going to be even more hateful. You can lose people by behaving this way. And Texas GOP is showing that." — Alan Elrod, political theorist 🧾 t2m.co/RvmBhCY

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Transcript: Fox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as GOP Panics: “Wake Up!”

As the Trump-GOP position worsens, a political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a values-based Democratic politics to emerge.

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Common Sense Good Government @commonsensegoodgov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Great work sir keep traveling to shore up those votes

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“What we’re seeing here is, from the racial hatred to the stupidity of things like the tariffs, if you hurt people enough, they will potentially eventually abandon you. You cannot just keep hurting them over and over again and expect loyalty. That does eventually matter.”

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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Let's do this again: Great conversation with @aselrod.bsky.social about the future of the GOP, and how Christianity plays into it. One thing about why some cons. Christians are turned off by ICE goon squads: hospitality to the stranger is one of the most explicit commandments in scripture. 1/2

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stephen Miller's Office of Remigration deliberately announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy. Dems should defund it. The great Posting Through It pod invited me on to talk about my reporting on Miller. We went deep: open.spotify.com/episode/5OAX...

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146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The future of the GOP can be seen in Texas, argues @aselrod.bsky.social with @gregsargent.bsky.social, but so can the opposite: a positive, respectful, caring, unreservedly value-based politics, one that appeals to the religious and non-religious (and American!) idea that we're all created equal.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yep. The Texas GOP perfectly captures what the Trump-era GOP writ large has become, but it also shows how this politics is creating space for something better to emerge on the liberal-Democratic side.

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House+Senate 202-224-3121 @cary2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Liberalism's roots in the Christian idea of equality before God." 👍

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