Paul Singer is not through with me yet! https://t.co/OMKR7DVnV2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 12, 2018
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The clear winner here https://t.co/hfVh4QF6Zv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 12, 2018
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Chance that @SpeakerRyan will try to pass an awful piece of border-loosening/cheap labor/employer-protecting/amnesty legislation before he leaves: 100%
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 12, 2018
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The new Overism. https://t.co/M2WUnmnif5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 12, 2018
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K St. was invented to let them have it both ways … https://t.co/5f4bKvYxnM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 12, 2018
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Who said Americans can't come together on a bipartisan basis? They've come together to reject Ryan's precious think-tank-incubated "premium support" plans for Medicare. (Medicare is supposed to provide security, not constant plan-switching and insecurity.) https://t.co/4d5hwSB1rU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 11, 2018
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CA Gov. Brown: "[T]here is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California." California's border is already largely walled. https://t.co/raDUfBsLGr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 11, 2018
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The Coalition of the Ascendant are v-sore losers! https://t.co/fuRt1N1RWm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 11, 2018
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Team Point 5! Ryan's voucher-style entitlement plans now have no political party home. Voters don't want 'em, for good reason–not Dems, not Trump voters, not Tea Partiers. Semi-flop of Obamacare's similar plan finished them off. Live on in think tanks https://t.co/KLdyuZFztq
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A lot of ammo here for the "culture matters" argument on immigration … https://t.co/RJOJRNjDKl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 11, 2018
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Did Facebook bury conservative news? Ex-staffers say yes. https://t.co/kwKN45nGG6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 11, 2018
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On Paul Ryan's loose-borders history: https://t.co/PzWMJk6Vd3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 11, 2018
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Does seem plausible that Mueller team's last shot at getting Trump is to provoke him into doing something stupid. https://t.co/B7Kb1YTvKw https://t.co/IwLLDs9eDn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 11, 2018
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Does seem plausible that Mueller team's last shot at getting Trump is to provoke him into doing something stupid. https://t.co/B7Kb1YTvKw https://t.co/IwLLDs9eDn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 11, 2018
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LAMEST MSM MEME: "Republicans" (eg Bush Republicans) couldn't possibly have it in for Trump! https://t.co/UkvcdDS1WM
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FIX: This is the right link: https://t.co/VULN5OEsiZ https://t.co/QnwqrqWZcT
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So Mounk was wildly off about Trump. Two possible conclusions: a) Mounk's grave warning about the threat to American democracy was even more profound than we thought! b) Mounk has terrible judgment. https://t.co/ucHLHwML8v
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 11, 2018
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TRUMP'S NOT ORBAN #3: Orban packed key government institutions with Fidesz cronies and party cadres. Where are Trump's troops? He can't even staff his WH without giving key jobs to NeverTrumpers (see @marcshort45)–let alone the federal bureacracy. https://t.co/YJ8O7eLpmA
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TRUMP'S NOT ORBAN #2: Orban enriched a whole class of crony capitalists. Many "have acquired huge landed estates." Where is the class of enriched Trump cronies? They are hard to find (outside of the Kushners-maybe). You don't make $ getting in bed with Trump. https://t.co/ro9lEelETq
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TRUMP'S NOT ORBAN #1: Orban's party took over "most of the private media" in Hungary. https://t.co/U3mTYwnDih Trump has Fox, except for Tucker and Laura when they disagree with him. https://t.co/PwWwbmAmkN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 11, 2018
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Problem is that just because Trump failed to undermine liberal democracy it doesn't follow that a shrewder more Orbanesque figure would succeed–i.e. that American institutions are weak. Seem kind of strong to me. https://t.co/YlOcBT5BN0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 11, 2018
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Shorter Mounk: Turns out Trump's really not much like Orban! But don't worry, populism still poses a grave threat to the survival of liberal democracy because if someone who actually was what Mounk said Trump was came to power he might pull it off. https://t.co/LjCJqXn8B2
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Mounk: In contrast with Orban, Trump "has been far less strategic about abolishing independent institutions." In other words, he hasn't done it. https://t.co/p1pAKvYyBB…
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Why not more attention to this sensational story? https://t.co/V1jieB2ZVS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 10, 2018
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Seems a drafted-in-30-seconds for-show bill–looks like it has an independent proscription against publishing "false" info without warning (whether fact-checked or not). But whole bill only requires a "plan," not that plan actually be implemented. https://t.co/JfxwAhRRrv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 10, 2018
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