Here’s an antidote to the lazy @paulkrugman/@JoeKleinTIME ‘JD Vance is a phony’ talking point: https://t.co/427uYnaLP8

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 19, 2024

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July 19, 2024 at 03:29PM
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PS Remember when Bill Clinton’s SOTU went way too long, and all the pros said it was a disaster–and then it turned out that the voters liked it.

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Jul 19, 2024

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July 19, 2024 at 05:21AM
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5) Did not say things like “I alone can fix it.” On the contrary, portrayed himself as part of an unstoppable movement, something you might want to believe if you almost got killed; 6) So it went a little long! Past bedtimes and deadlines. Suck it up, East Coasters. 4/4

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Jul 19, 2024

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July 19, 2024 at 05:15AM
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4) Gave better idea than Biden of moonshot-like national purpose (“We’re going to get to the cure for cancer and Alzheimer’s and so many other things. We’re so close to doing something great.) 3/x

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Jul 19, 2024

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July 19, 2024 at 05:11AM
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2) Trump’s tone, as has been noted, was softer, more wistful, maybe tired. Less menacing to people he turned off before (women?). A strategic positive, I’d think. 3) Rambling conversation gave a pretty good idea of what he’s about. Seemed authentic. 2/x

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Jul 19, 2024

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July 19, 2024 at 05:07AM
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All the speechwriting pros are pissing on Trump’s speech, and Dems are going further –“ruined” convention, etc. 1) Conventional set piece speeches seem overrated in US politics. GHW Bush’s 1988 acceptance is the only one I can remember that changed the race. 1/x

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Jul 19, 2024

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July 19, 2024 at 05:03AM
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What’s the difference between Vance’s populism, derided by so many, and Gore’s 2000 populism, about how “powerful forces… stand in your way”? I was trying to come up with the answer when I discovered I’d already written it–Vance makes a bit more sense. https://t.co/3kg9gBkVTU

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Jul 19, 2024

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July 19, 2024 at 04:22AM
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‘How much space do you need? Half an hour?’ https://t.co/RlUrbhNWry

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Jul 19, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 08:38PM
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Also it now looks like he won’t be running against Biden … https://t.co/02jOw4zrQz

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 06:54PM
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‘What will Meacham say?’–the current question in Halperin’s “2-way” https://t.co/l2KBu4C96d

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 06:40PM
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Shapiro worked for Torricelli. He knows how this is done! https://t.co/y9tOccOSB6

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 05:21PM
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PS I doubt “62% of the population has 401Ks.” Says here it’s about 35%: https://t.co/5Fn3mlZM4n Fine to appeal to this lucky minority. But hard to argue that this is genuine populism and that it’s “phony” not to–i.e. to worry about the bottom half that don’t have 401ks,

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 04:49PM
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.@JoeKleinTIME: What’s the argument for casuallly slurring Vance as a “phony populist hypocrite.” Because he doesn’t “appreciate what Wall Street does”? Real populists love Wall Street? https://t.co/fTTr5gshx5

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 04:39PM
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Vance talks about immigrants lowering wages (something Krugman has argued in the past) and Krugman responds with charts about unemployment. Employment, but at what wage? Hard to argue that without the migrant influx wages wouldn’t be higher. https://t.co/nleDbsNNhZ

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 03:09PM
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How are Katrina and the Waves not the richest people on the planet?

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 04:24AM
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York on Vance: “They praised his intelligence, which is formidable, and saw him as running rings around Harris, who has accomplished little in office beyond coming up with a new and strange recipe for word salad.” https://t.co/kvH6mQtopM

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 04:14AM
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Obama years from mid-2014 on were good, Trump years until COVID even better.

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 03:57AM
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Vance: “[T]here’s this chart that shows worker wages. And they stagnated for pretty much my entire life, until President Donald J. Trump came along. Workers’ wages went through the roof.” I was skeptical, but this chart more or less shows this, no? https://t.co/B6mT5bANMw

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 03:51AM
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I’d forgotten about the FAFSA fiasco, which is a fuck-up on a par with the pier in Gaza, the Secret Service in Butler and Buttigieg’s 8 electric-car chargers. (The withdrawal from Afghanistan is on another level.) https://t.co/4pFJgOOUJm

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 03:16AM
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But I think that one reason people like William Pekrul would fight for their home is freedom and social equality (“But as Americans that’s not enough. We must be equal in the eyes of each other”**)—not *just* that it’s their home.

**–Reagan

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 02:58AM
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What’s ridiculous about the America-is-an-idea idea is that it’s used by the Paul Ryans of the world to suggest that anybody who comes here *should* be here because, hey, they must like our ideas. And there’s no problem of assimilation. So let them all in! What could go wrong?

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 02:50AM
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I liked this framing: “Now, it is part of that tradition, of course, that we welcome newcomers. But when we allow newcomers into our American family, we allow them on our terms.” Terms that include freedom & social equality, which are … um, ideas. https://t.co/rBWgHkyVYk

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 02:45AM
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I had an idea to compare the aging Biden to Leonid Brezhnev in his dotage. So how bad was Brezhnev? Much, much worse, it turns out. Never mind. https://t.co/EBhMAzFv76 https://t.co/YPEzIBPTeX

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 18, 2024 at 02:33AM
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They’re taking back “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow”?

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 17, 2024 at 11:24PM
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Don Jr. coming perilously close to talking about the wall (that Trump failed to build) ….

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Jul 18, 2024

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July 17, 2024 at 10:34PM
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