Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
The division of the Republican Party continues - between | 2020-12-31 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1344701508001038336 | 1344701508001038336 |
"Any vote that McConnell fervently wishes to avoid is one | 2020-12-31 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1344506746073595904 | 1344506746073595904 |
Republicans take sides! | 2020-12-30 | 72 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1344422804825862146 | 1344422804825862146 |
Trump not serious about 2024? | 2020-12-28 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343583366449250305 | 1343583366449250305 |
And Trump doesn't care about his voters. | 2020-12-24 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1342136771920994306 | 1342136771920994306 |
Still time to impeach or 25th amendment! | 2020-12-24 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1342135650670190592 | 1342135650670190592 |
What's the long term impact? | 2020-12-24 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1341946486813126656 | 1341946486813126656 |
Faint signs of reality sinking in and Republicans moving | 2020-12-23 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1341799427971768321 | 1341799427971768321 |
Obviously the problem with Congress is not enough football | 2020-12-22 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1341231233922023424 | 1341231233922023424 |
Florida - still the best state ever! | 2020-12-22 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1341230053653245953 | 1341230053653245953 |
GOP strategy - pretend that Trumpishness wasn't essential | 2020-12-21 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1341074403979751424 | 1341074403979751424 |
Dimensions of the Trumpist victory sink in. | 2020-12-21 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1341069520245407744 | 1341069520245407744 |
The big lie! | 2020-12-21 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340826545309405184 | 1340826545309405184 |
Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it. | 2020-12-20 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340766823008989185 | 1340766823008989185 |
Whenever somebody signs up to do something really dumb | 2020-12-20 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340721402358329346 | 1340721402358329346 |
Looks like football coach Tuberville will run the ball | 2020-12-19 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340133595118071808 | 1340133595118071808 |
You might say Peter Navarro should stick to trade, except | 2020-12-19 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340132305747075072 | 1340132305747075072 |
"GOP leaders are now divided between the fearful and the | 2020-12-17 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339713755492438016 | 1339713755492438016 |
The face of Trumpism. | 2020-12-17 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339655436937515008 | 1339655436937515008 |
Lincoln Project views the future. | 2020-12-17 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339645107721568256 | 1339645107721568256 |
"So we have more than enough time to right the wrong of | 2020-12-17 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339367150453067782 | 1339367150453067782 |
Trumpists will resist Biden because that's what their | 2020-12-17 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339361804711948290 | 1339361804711948290 |
Who's going to be in charge of the Republican Party? | 2020-12-16 | 48 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1339290094499295237 | 1339290094499295237 |
Just doing the work of Trump and God, in that order! | 2020-12-16 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339289123505360897 | 1339289123505360897 |
It didn't start with Reagan! | 2020-12-15 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338684918423908353 | 1338684918423908353 |
How Trump set the stage for his successor in 2024 - by | 2020-12-15 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338682978906505218 | 1338682978906505218 |
Why Trumpism will find a better choice than Trump in 2024. | 2020-12-15 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338677847716634625 | 1338677847716634625 |
Virginia is for lovers - of utter fantasy! | 2020-12-15 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338643465496715265 | 1338643465496715265 |
"By indulging in extremism for political advantage, they | 2020-12-14 | 60 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1338620604530917376 | 1338620604530917376 |
Republican Congressman changes to Independent - three | 2020-12-14 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338606222375755777 | 1338606222375755777 |
Will Trump freeze the Republican Party to preserve his | 2020-12-14 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338571282787385344 | 1338571282787385344 |
"Republicans can't have an honest accounting of what Trump | 2020-12-14 | 57 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338540151132151808 | 1338540151132151808 |
What happened? Trump fulfilled Putin's fondest dreams | 2020-12-14 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338315020136980480 | 1338315020136980480 |
These people truly deserve to live in their own nation | 2020-12-13 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1338012719610380294 | 1338012719610380294 |
Texas GOP signs up for secession. | 2020-12-12 | 401 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1337742863572996102 | 1337742863572996102 |
Disgusted Florida newspaper apologizes for endorsing | 2020-12-12 | 54 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1337629946215186432 | 1337629946215186432 |
A self-serving opportunist - a perfect Trump henchman. | 2020-12-12 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337629114396594176 | 1337629114396594176 |
"Circular firing squad" used to refer to Democrats. | 2020-12-11 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337539934056398848 | 1337539934056398848 |
Senator Murphy diagnoses the problem | 2020-12-11 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337537508091940865 | 1337537508091940865 |
Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy said they had a secret list of | 2020-12-11 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337421725215035393 | 1337421725215035393 |
How to get ahead in the Trumpist party! | 2020-12-10 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337122281537957889 | 1337122281537957889 |
Sued for an ill-considered "joke" | 2020-12-10 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1336872335886802945 | 1336872335886802945 |
Arizona Republican Party intent on following California's | 2020-12-09 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1336689937383493633 | 1336689937383493633 |
Southerners love Noble Lost Cause mythologies. They | 2020-12-08 | 45 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1336114167942586368 | 1336114167942586368 |
Stop the steal! | 2020-12-07 | 47 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1336097745661165571 | 1336097745661165571 |
Mob violence - the ultimate threat to law and order. | 2020-12-07 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1336008487906635776 | 1336008487906635776 |
Trump administration keeps sowing salt in as many fields | 2020-12-07 | 48 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1335737536153485312 | 1335737536153485312 |
The trumpists deserve each other! | 2020-12-06 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335735758347325440 | 1335735758347325440 |
McCarthyism was different from Trumpism - seven Republican | 2020-12-06 | 48 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335660980374700032 | 1335660980374700032 |
Permanent Revolution - Mao and Trotsky would be so proud! | 2020-12-06 | 49 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335601051932610560 | 1335601051932610560 |
Boldly refusing to answer a simple true/false question! | 2020-12-05 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335213309495132162 | 1335213309495132162 |
Trump purge continues! No wonder he doesn't have time | 2020-12-05 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335033581798785025 | 1335033581798785025 |
Republicans paying the price for being Republicans rather | 2020-12-04 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334997928016932864 | 1334997928016932864 |
If Trumpists want to self-destruct that's their choice - | 2020-12-04 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334881138616061952 | 1334881138616061952 |
The Whigs finally self-destructed, making way for the | 2020-12-03 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334623707382259712 | 1334623707382259712 |
"Our democracy must recreate itself in every generation | 2020-12-03 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334617849084534785 | 1334617849084534785 |
Why Donald J Trump won't be the Trumpist candidate in 2024. | 2020-12-03 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334616092426158082 | 1334616092426158082 |
A complete list of Republican elected officials who have | 2020-12-03 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334554456378105856 | 1334554456378105856 |
The legacy of Trumpism! | 2020-12-03 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334522835612520451 | 1334522835612520451 |
Trump's schedule F purge - revoke Civil Service protection | 2020-12-02 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333969532155641856 | 1333969532155641856 |
Trump purge continues - search and destroy competent | 2020-12-01 | 45 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333809845925908483 | 1333809845925908483 |
Why Donald Trump will not be the Trumpist candidate | 2020-11-29 | 61 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333178267289808897 | 1333178267289808897 |
Rubio comes not to bury Trumpism, but to praise it - | 2020-11-29 | 35 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333142824850661377 | 1333142824850661377 |
Trump administration boldly increases protection for its | 2020-11-29 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333097359086010369 | 1333097359086010369 |
The pot calling the kettle black. The new Trumpist | 2020-11-28 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1332497015125680131 | 1332497015125680131 |
Trump's favorite dictator? No, just one of many who | 2020-11-27 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1332195573122834433 | 1332195573122834433 |
Even if Trump pardons himself, family, and enablers, the | 2020-11-26 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1331765982323359746 | 1331765982323359746 |
Of course 21 Republican senators know Trump is an idiot. | 2020-11-25 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1331700223857487873 | 1331700223857487873 |
A dark picture of feudal minority rule and Trumpism | 2020-11-23 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1330981092862562305 | 1330981092862562305 |
How the Party of Lincoln became the Party of Strom | 2020-11-21 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329986062299480064 | 1329986062299480064 |
Three reasons why Trumpism is thriving. | 2020-11-20 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329855801125527553 | 1329855801125527553 |
McCarthy thinks Trump will still be relevant. | 2020-11-19 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329226604174688257 | 1329226604174688257 |
A preview of future Republicanism. Trump is an asset | 2020-11-18 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328914801733509120 | 1328914801733509120 |
Trump is done, though he doesn't know it. | 2020-11-18 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328887683381248001 | 1328887683381248001 |
Is he trying to anoint himself the successor in Trumpism? | 2020-11-18 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328885058074079234 | 1328885058074079234 |
A Trumpist to the core - incompetent AND poisonously | 2020-11-17 | 48 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328842105356095493 | 1328842105356095493 |
Trumpists really hate competence and technical integrity, | 2020-11-17 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328839667488210945 | 1328839667488210945 |
"The point of conspiratorial narratives and apocalyptic | 2020-11-16 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328348746648752128 | 1328348746648752128 |
"it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole | 2020-11-16 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328335382207893505 | 1328335382207893505 |
Trumpism works by blaming somebody else. | 2020-11-15 | 81 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328120496949403648 | 1328120496949403648 |
Roger Stone is still doing what he does best - lying, | 2020-11-14 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327482284975431682 | 1327482284975431682 |
The lord high executioner. He gets rid of any Federal | 2020-11-14 | 76 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327471296150528003 | 1327471296150528003 |
Trump thinks he has options. | 2020-11-13 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327251282650808321 | 1327251282650808321 |
Trey Grayson misunderstands (his) modern Republican Party. | 2020-11-13 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327116607886422018 | 1327116607886422018 |
If you want to be non-Trumpist, you have to not be | 2020-11-13 | 42 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1327073694305243137 | 1327073694305243137 |
Senate fantasies. | 2020-11-12 | 57 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1326731395964694530 | 1326731395964694530 |
Looks like Trump has carte blanche until January 5. | 2020-11-12 | 50 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1326699265423417349 | 1326699265423417349 |
"National security requires that the transition get | 2020-11-11 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1326610914762616832 | 1326610914762616832 |
Erasing a commandment. | 2020-11-11 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1326592613009350656 | 1326592613009350656 |
Nobody loves Bannon any more? | 2020-11-10 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1326026561741492225 | 1326026561741492225 |
Too bad Mr. Biden - the Trumpists have vowed 100% | 2020-11-10 | 84 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1326002265530925059 | 1326002265530925059 |
The purge continues. | 2020-11-10 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325962985467080704 | 1325962985467080704 |
Trumpism owns the Republican Party now. The permanent | 2020-11-09 | 76 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1325946972713308160 | 1325946972713308160 |
Some defendants are simply indefensible! | 2020-11-08 | 37 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1325491852728889344 | 1325491852728889344 |
Trump defeated; Trumpism victorious! | 2020-11-08 | 74 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1325468944577163266 | 1325468944577163266 |
Trumpism didn't disappear. How well will it continue | 2020-11-08 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325447435036971008 | 1325447435036971008 |
Woe to the one Donald Trump holds responsible for his loss. | 2020-11-07 | 69 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324891252303650816 | 1324891252303650816 |
Bannon just being Bannon - hoping to ingratiate himself | 2020-11-06 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324855241699811328 | 1324855241699811328 |
There is no "neutral" or "partial" in Trumpism. | 2020-11-06 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324838628598534144 | 1324838628598534144 |
Compare McConnell and Trump! | 2020-11-06 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324755007875395585 | 1324755007875395585 |
The Triumph of Trumpism! | 2020-11-05 | 79 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324489588597874690 | 1324489588597874690 |
Former Republicans now 100% Trumpists - they think he | 2020-11-05 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324488526285533184 | 1324488526285533184 |
The table above has these entries:
========== The division of the Republican Party continues - between those that will do anything Trump commands and those that will only do some things that Trump commands. Sasse joins Mitchell in the second group. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sasse-letter-electoral-college-ploy/2020/12/31/44da8dba-4b65-11eb-a9d9-1e3ec4a928b9_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 51 time 2020-12-31 17:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1344701508001038336 ========== "Any vote that McConnell fervently wishes to avoid is one I'm for" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/30/let-josh-hawley-put-republicans-uncomfortable-test/ Trump doesn't care about observing good precedents or setting bad precedents, but other Republicans should. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 47 time 2020-12-31 04:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1344506746073595904 ========== Republicans take sides! Josh Hawley burnishes his credentials as Trump's sucessor with the Trump base - https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-michael-brown-josh-hawley-8d868c985792e932f9bc527ec2f2ab30 Mitch McConnell's not afraid of the big bad Trump - https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-elections-coronavirus-pandemic-mitch-mcconnell-27b0c312f09481b2d3d7b53624d1d1cc and he's not allowing a vote that splits his caucus. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 72 time 2020-12-30 23:19 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1344422804825862146 ========== Trump not serious about 2024? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/28/least-we-know-trumps-not-serious-about-2024/ Perhaps this is just purifying the Trumpist party - removing those not 100% loyal to Trump. The donors might prefer somebody who can govern, but they might help Trump win again. More - https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1323681141309735 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 43 time 2020-12-28 15:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343583366449250305 ========== And Trump doesn't care about his voters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/23/donald-trump-doesnt-really-care-about-you/ He gets all the advice he needs from his donor pals at Mar-a-Lago. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 53 time 2020-12-24 15:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1342136771920994306 ========== Still time to impeach or 25th amendment! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/24/house-republicans-trump-covid-relief/ Trump has taken a leaf blower to the fig leaves that cover minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html And he doesn't care about the Republican Party, only the Trumpist personality cult. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 50 time 2020-12-24 15:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1342135650670190592 ========== What's the long term impact? https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-iran-nuclear-health-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-22e9cd885c1d4de1b9be68e13233a306 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-president-legacy-e3f2608fc3b70e2e2f45097a403150e1 Or will it just fade like a bad dream? Not until Trumpism is defeated - by the people finally realizing that it's just a con job for minority rule. https://www-x.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 66 time 2020-12-24 03:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341946486813126656 ========== Faint signs of reality sinking in and Republicans moving on. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/23/trump-may-be-fading-faster-than-you-think/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 48 time 2020-12-23 17:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341799427971768321 ========== Obviously the problem with Congress is not enough football coaches. Problem solved! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/21/tommy-tuberville-is-making-strong-bid-become-senates-dimmest-member/ He'll take his signals from his quarterback Trump. Even after Jan 20. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 49 time 2020-12-22 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341231233922023424 ========== Florida - still the best state ever! https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/us/both-hapless-and-harebrained-florida-man-enlivens-internet.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/21/ron-desantis-florida-covid-19/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 69 time 2020-12-22 03:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341230053653245953 ========== GOP strategy - pretend that Trumpishness wasn't essential to Republican minority rule. Campaign against AOC in order to avoid billionaire tax relief and Obamacare repeal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/21/gop-whitewashing-trump-stain-has-quietly-begun/ But Trump will keep the GOP Trumpist. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/us/politics/trump-republican-party-future.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 37 time 2020-12-21 17:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341074403979751424 ========== Dimensions of the Trumpist victory sink in. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-election-democrats-losses/2020/12/20/b5b2cec4-3ff5-11eb-8db8-395dedaaa036_story.html Just look at the map! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 44 time 2020-12-21 17:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341069520245407744 ========== The big lie! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-voter-trust/2020/12/20/00282aa6-407a-11eb-8db8-395dedaaa036_story.html And the little lie! https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/texas-anti-voter-fraud-operation/2020/12/20/98969dbc-4157-11eb-a402-fba110db3b42_story.html Trump's lasting damage to American democracy. Putin is so proud, Xi is so pleased. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 31 time 2020-12-21 01:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340826545309405184 ========== Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/20/john-kelly-is-wrong-they-were-not-good-people/ If you were happy to be there, you should be happy to receive your just desserts - in the bread lines with all the other unemployed. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 38 time 2020-12-20 21:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340766823008989185 ========== Whenever somebody signs up to do something really dumb for Trump, is that a sure sign that they are fishing for a pardon? https://apnews.com/article/us-news-ken-paxton-elections-crime-texas-8d1918c899f09852acad9f4140ea254a Or just a sure sign that they are demented? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/18/why-congressional-gops-flirtation-with-overturning-2020-election-is-unprecedented/ https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-conspiracy-theories-elections-william-barr-6ff3dbff74aa79ee4d81f9d87b6dce9c #PS1trumpism ===== impress 49 time 2020-12-20 18:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340721402358329346 ========== Looks like football coach Tuberville will run the ball for Trump on Jan 6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/18/why-congressional-gops-flirtation-with-overturning-2020-election-is-unprecedented/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 55 time 2020-12-19 03:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340133595118071808 ========== You might say Peter Navarro should stick to trade, except he's not any more credible there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/18/this-might-be-most-embarrassing-document-created-by-white-house-staffer/ He must have been writing for viewers of OAN and readers of Epoch Times. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 40 time 2020-12-19 03:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340132305747075072 ========== "GOP leaders are now divided between the fearful and the deluded — between those who have lost their nerve and those who have lost their minds" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-and-his-party-are-threatening-our-constitutional-order/2020/12/17/64527014-4097-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 44 time 2020-12-17 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339713755492438016 ========== The face of Trumpism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/17/kelly-loefflers-latest-nonsense-exposes-worst-gop-nihilism/ She's an argument for regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html If Warnock and Ossoff win, Biden can get his nominees confirmed; if not, he can't. But Republicans will filibuster Biden bills in either case. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 32 time 2020-12-17 19:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339655436937515008 ========== Lincoln Project views the future. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/16/reed-galen-trumpism-lincoln-project/ We were lucky that Trump was so timid and inept. His successor is a much bigger concern. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 40 time 2020-12-17 18:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339645107721568256 ========== "So we have more than enough time to right the wrong of this fraudulent election result and certify Donald Trump as the winner" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/us/politics/trump-media.html So how exactly does Stephen Miller expect this to come to pass? Not by any constitutional means! #PS1trumpism ===== impress 58 time 2020-12-17 00:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339367150453067782 ========== Trumpists will resist Biden because that's what their donors want. For four years, all they have to do is defend their minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html They'll repeat their big lies all the way to victory in 2022 and 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/opinion/trump-election-defeat.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 46 time 2020-12-17 00:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339361804711948290 ========== Who's going to be in charge of the Republican Party? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/16/trump-mcconnell-election-biden-president/ The big donor money is likely on McConnell. He's a quiet cannon, not a loose noisy one. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 48 time 2020-12-16 19:23 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339290094499295237 ========== Just doing the work of Trump and God, in that order! For generous pay, of course. He'll need it for his legal defense. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/16/aguirre-texas-cop-election-fraud/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 36 time 2020-12-16 19:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339289123505360897 ========== It didn't start with Reagan! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/opinion/republicans-reagan-disinformation.html It nearly started with Goldwater, but instead it started with Strom Thurmond, the founder of the modern Republican Party, whose ideology dated back to 1619 and even earlier. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 35 time 2020-12-15 03:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338684918423908353 ========== How Trump set the stage for his successor in 2024 - by normalizing cult of personality over Enlightenment ideals of rational inquiry into objective reality. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/opinion/donald-trump-presidency.html Trump will continue to rant, but somebody else will exploit his energized base. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 36 time 2020-12-15 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338682978906505218 ========== Why Trumpism will find a better choice than Trump in 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/opinion/trump-fascism.html Someone bolder and abler. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 36 time 2020-12-15 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338677847716634625 ========== Virginia is for lovers - of utter fantasy! https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/bob-good-phony-pandemic/2020/12/14/a0f4b504-3e1c-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 28 time 2020-12-15 00:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338643465496715265 ========== "By indulging in extremism for political advantage, they have radicalized their own electorate and left themselves as hostages of the mob" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/14/kevin-mccarthy-supreme-court-texas-lawsuit/ Biden will be removed one way or another - Alex Jones Fox News should all go to prison - Mike Lindell #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 60 time 2020-12-14 23:03 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338620604530917376 ========== Republican Congressman changes to Independent - three weeks before he retires. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/paul-mitchell-quits-gop/index.html Republican politicians only seem to find their consciences and remember their oaths on their way out the door. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 28 time 2020-12-14 22:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338606222375755777 ========== Will Trump freeze the Republican Party to preserve his brand? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/14/how-trumps-fake-2024-candidacy-will-freeze-gop-place/ But the major donors are going to be looking for a candidate who can rally the Trump base yet still be bold, capable, and effective at establishing permanent minority rule. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 28 time 2020-12-14 19:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338571282787385344 ========== "Republicans can't have an honest accounting of what Trump got right until they acknowledge what he got wrong" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/14/trump-brian-kemp-calls-election-results/ That's their challenge for 2024 - how to keep Trump shooting at Democrats instead of Republicans, without letting him run again. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 57 time 2020-12-14 17:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338540151132151808 ========== What happened? Trump fulfilled Putin's fondest dreams - and Strom Thurmond's - without being told what to do, just by being Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/public-officials-threatened-covid-election/2020/12/13/680bd380-3be7-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html Time to let the Trumpists run their own lives - nasty, brutish, and short. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 30 time 2020-12-14 02:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338315020136980480 ========== These people truly deserve to live in their own nation with only themselves for company. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-republicans-election/2020/12/12/9665976e-3bcb-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 44 time 2020-12-13 06:47 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338012719610380294 ========== Texas GOP signs up for secession. https://www.texasgop.org/chairman-allen-wests-response-to-scotus-decision/ The gain would be all to the blue states' benefit. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 401 time 2020-12-12 12:55 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337742863572996102 ========== Disgusted Florida newspaper apologizes for endorsing a seditionist. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/editorials/os-op-michael-waltz-endorsement-editorial-apology-20201211-a4er2nccfbbeznc6yyqbq5moku-story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 54 time 2020-12-12 05:26 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337629946215186432 ========== A self-serving opportunist - a perfect Trump henchman. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ken-paxton-texas-trump/2020/12/11/18ca5218-3bc6-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 63 time 2020-12-12 05:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337629114396594176 ========== "Circular firing squad" used to refer to Democrats. No more! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/politics/brian-kemp-georgia-trump.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 35 time 2020-12-11 23:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337539934056398848 ========== Senator Murphy diagnoses the problem https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/11/chris-murphys-surprise-floor-speech-raises-tough-questions-democrats/ What now? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 40 time 2020-12-11 23:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337537508091940865 ========== Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy said they had a secret list of communists trying to overthrow constitutional government. Now there's no secret - there's a published list of Trumpists trying to overthrow constitutional government. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/11/they-made-their-own-list/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 36 time 2020-12-11 15:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337421725215035393 ========== How to get ahead in the Trumpist party! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/us/politics/trump-texas-supreme-court-lawsuit.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 42 time 2020-12-10 19:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337122281537957889 ========== Sued for an ill-considered "joke" https://apnews.com/article/christopher-krebs-lawsui-joseph-digenova-5f38ee4dd03d26f146f306a6d6a64d57 Maybe if more Trumpists get hit in the pocketbook they'll mind their manners. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 45 time 2020-12-10 03:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1336872335886802945 ========== Arizona Republican Party intent on following California's into oblivion. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/us/arizona-ducey-republicans.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 43 time 2020-12-09 15:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1336689937383493633 ========== Southerners love Noble Lost Cause mythologies. They need them because they keep losing causes to the modern world. Now they have a new Noble Lost Cause. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/07/how-stolen-election-myth-will-swallow-gop/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 45 time 2020-12-08 01:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1336114167942586368 ========== Stop the steal! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/07/kelly-loeffler-disqualified-herself-sunday-nights-debate/ Maintaining minority rule is not for the timid or incompetent. You do whatever it takes. That's why Trumpists will find a bolder more capable candidate in 2024. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 2 impress 47 time 2020-12-07 23:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1336097745661165571 ========== Mob violence - the ultimate threat to law and order. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/07/michigan-sos-benson-armed-protest/ Will Trumpist leaders still equivocate and neither clearly own nor disown mob violence? #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 43 time 2020-12-07 18:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1336008487906635776 ========== Trump administration keeps sowing salt in as many fields as possible before time runs out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lame-duck-policies/2020/12/06/8165088c-3661-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 48 time 2020-12-07 00:07 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335737536153485312 ========== The trumpists deserve each other! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/06/trailer-what-trump-supporters-georgia-believe/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 44 time 2020-12-06 23:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335735758347325440 ========== McCarthyism was different from Trumpism - seven Republican senators finally spoke out against McCarty! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/joseph-mccarthy-movement-trumpism/2020/12/04/d6e807ee-3460-11eb-b59c-adb7153d10c2_story.html And McCarthy didn't have social media or cable TV. Otherwise, more in common than different. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 48 time 2020-12-06 19:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335660980374700032 ========== Permanent Revolution - Mao and Trotsky would be so proud! This is even more than Putin hoped for America. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/04/tea-party-trumpism-conservatives-populism/ But for now, the blue states have to solve their own problems. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1308227356188447 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 49 time 2020-12-06 15:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335601051932610560 ========== Boldly refusing to answer a simple true/false question! They believe in herd immunity! The silence of the lambs or the silence of the wolves or the silence of the vacuum? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/survey-who-won-election-republicans-congress/2020/12/04/1a1011f6-3650-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 40 time 2020-12-05 13:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335213309495132162 ========== Trump purge continues! No wonder he doesn't have time to deal with a mere virus. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/12/04/trump-administration-appoints-loyalists-corey-lewandowski-david-bossie-defense-business-board/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 40 time 2020-12-05 01:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335033581798785025 ========== Republicans paying the price for being Republicans rather than Trumpists! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/04/trump-gop-try-put-monster-they-created-back-cage/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/conservatives-turn-on-trump.html But they don't seem to have learned that he who lives by the lie shall die by the lie. Putin thrilled by success unexpected in common hours. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 44 time 2020-12-04 23:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334997928016932864 ========== If Trumpists want to self-destruct that's their choice - the fewer the better. Just keep them away from us. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/04/price-republicans-war-reality-vaccine-denial/ Republicans absorbed Dixiecrats, Dixiecrats absorbed Trumpists, Trumpists absorbed QAnon, QAnon absorbed anti-vaxxers. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 58 time 2020-12-04 15:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334881138616061952 ========== The Whigs finally self-destructed, making way for the Republicans in 1860. Who are the Republicans of 2020 making way for? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/03/whats-future-gop-youre-looking-it-its-bonkers/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 31 time 2020-12-03 22:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334623707382259712 ========== "Our democracy must recreate itself in every generation by reaffirming the ideals that created it" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-it-isnt-too-late-to-stand-up-for-the-nation/2020/12/03/85ab971c-3580-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html Trump doesn't know or care about those ideals. And apparently, neither do Republican senators. That's the essence of being un-American. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 29 time 2020-12-03 21:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334617849084534785 ========== Why Donald J Trump won't be the Trumpist candidate in 2024. Major donors want somebody who can convert enemies into allies, not vice versa. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-georgia-senate-run-offs/2020/12/03/e777c11e-34bd-11eb-afe6-e4dbee9689f8_story.html It used to be the circular firing squad joke was about Democrats. Not in Georgia now! #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 31 time 2020-12-03 21:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334616092426158082 ========== A complete list of Republican elected officials who have unambiguously condemned Trump's and Flynn's rants will be posted here - just as soon as it has even one name on it. In the meantime - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/michael-flynn-suspend-constitution-martial-law-trump-reelection-b1765467.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-video/2020/12/02/f6c8d63c-34e8-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 30 time 2020-12-03 17:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334554456378105856 ========== The legacy of Trumpism! https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-the-bombs-go-off-the-blood-is-on-mike-flynns-hands-retired-officers-blast-his-calls-for-martial-law Who comes next? https://wethepeopleconvention.org/articles/WTPC-Urges-Limited-Martial-Law "overthrowing of government of the US by force or violence" prohibited - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385 Do ANY Republican leaders have ANYTHING to say? Secession next? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 26 time 2020-12-03 15:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334522835612520451 ========== Trump's schedule F purge - revoke Civil Service protection for professionals, and confer Civil Service protection for his political flunkeys. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-lays-the-groundwork-for-a-massive-government-purge-on-his-way-out-the-door/2020/11/30/280519ac-333d-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 33 time 2020-12-02 03:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333969532155641856 ========== Trump purge continues - search and destroy competent officials of the deep state - who needs competence to run a shallow state? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/politics/pentagon-firing.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 4 engage-rate 9% expands 4 impress 45 time 2020-12-01 16:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333809845925908483 ========== Why Donald Trump will not be the Trumpist candidate in 2024. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/28/politics/donald-trump-election-georgia-runoffs/index.html The donors for Republican politicians will find a more capable and focused Trumpist who can work a campaign rally without shooting his foot. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/28/politics/donald-trump-election-georgia-runoffs/index.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 7 engage-rate 11% expands 7 impress 61 time 2020-11-29 22:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333178267289808897 ========== Rubio comes not to bury Trumpism, but to praise it - and succeed to it if he can. But he is competing for the same prize with so many other Republican senators coming not to praise Trump but to bury him. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marco-rubio-is-already-suiting-up-for-the-politics-of-destruction/2020/11/28/af30e91e-2f74-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 35 time 2020-11-29 20:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333142824850661377 ========== Trump administration boldly increases protection for its endangered corporate donors! https://apnews.com/article/politics-wildlife-birds-56b812df9c278f5e2b9be9541378892b #PS1trumpism ===== impress 28 time 2020-11-29 17:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333097359086010369 ========== The pot calling the kettle black. The new Trumpist normal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-republicans-elitism/2020/11/27/f1df70d2-30e1-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html All the would-be 2024 candidates are trying to distinguish themselves from Biden. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 38 likes 1 time 2020-11-28 01:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1332497015125680131 ========== Trump's favorite dictator? No, just one of many who does what Trump wished he could do. What Trumpism's successor might do. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/opinion/egypt-arrests-activists.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 50 time 2020-11-27 05:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1332195573122834433 ========== Even if Trump pardons himself, family, and enablers, the Biden administration could still investigate and indict if warranted. Then Trump could choose to go to trial to clear his name. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/trump-prosecution.html But that investigation would be a gift to Trumpism. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 48 time 2020-11-26 01:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331765982323359746 ========== Of course 21 Republican senators know Trump is an idiot. They just don't want anybody else to know it. What about the other 30? https://apnews.com/article/carl-bernstein-21-gop-senators-contempt-48dfbcf6328262fc9c40911957c0a691 #PS1trumpism ===== impress 51 time 2020-11-25 20:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331700223857487873 ========== A dark picture of feudal minority rule and Trumpism reigning triumphant. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/23/trump-will-go-trumpism-will-remain/ And Trump should be cautious about sipping chrysanthemum tea brewed by his retinue. https://genius.com/Stephen-sondheim-chrysanthemum-tea-lyrics #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 53 time 2020-11-23 21:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1330981092862562305 ========== How the Party of Lincoln became the Party of Strom Thurmond. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2020/11/20/f0d11954-2b71-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/most-republicans-greet-trumps-push-to-overturn-the-election-with-a-customary-response-silence/2020/11/20/91948292-2b52-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 51 time 2020-11-21 03:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329986062299480064 ========== Three reasons why Trumpism is thriving. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-deserved-to-lose-even-worse-heres-why-it-didnt/2020/11/19/3dfa53ae-2aa4-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 31 time 2020-11-20 18:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329855801125527553 ========== McCarthy thinks Trump will still be relevant. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-trump.html More likely, Trump will imagine that he is still relevant, and his enablers will pretend to encourage him, while his ambitious would-be successors maneuver behind the scenes for control. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 39 time 2020-11-19 00:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329226604174688257 ========== A preview of future Republicanism. Trump is an asset on the campaign trail but a liability in office, so his successor will usurp him without appearing to. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/georgia-senate-republicans-recount.html Trumpists seem to be pretty shamless about attacking each other. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 40 time 2020-11-18 04:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328914801733509120 ========== Trump is done, though he doesn't know it. It's his "smarter, less crude" successor in Trumpism that's so alarming. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/opinion/trump-democracy-republican-party.html ein Volk no more diversity ein Reich no more federalism ein Führer no more co-equal branches of government #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 42 time 2020-11-18 02:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328887683381248001 ========== Is he trying to anoint himself the successor in Trumpism? If so, there's a lot of cutthroat competition. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/lindsey-graham-georgia-trump-biden.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 46 time 2020-11-18 02:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328885058074079234 ========== A Trumpist to the core - incompetent AND poisonously partisan. No wonder Republican senators are so eager to confirm her. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-trying-to-jam-through-judy-shelton-she-has-no-business-working-at-the-fed/2020/11/16/449749c6-2840-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 48 time 2020-11-17 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328842105356095493 ========== Trumpists really hate competence and technical integrity, especially in their own party. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brad-raffensperger-georgia-vote/2020/11/16/6b6cb2f4-283e-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 40 time 2020-11-17 23:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328839667488210945 ========== "The point of conspiratorial narratives and apocalyptic rhetoric is to lay the groundwork for a politics of total obstruction" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/opinion/trump-religion-authoritarianism.html McConnell thanks them for their support! Minority rule needs a Potemkin democracy. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 50 time 2020-11-16 14:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328348746648752128 ========== "it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world . . . But for Wales?" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/opinion/jared-ivanka-trump.html About taking over the Trump base - Klansmen, Nazis, QAnons, Soros foes - all want to finish the Holocaust. They seek a suitable Führer for Trumpism. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 37 time 2020-11-16 13:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328335382207893505 ========== Trumpism works by blaming somebody else. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/09/trump-trumpism-gop-republicans-election-outreach/ Biden can reach out, but Trumpists won't reach back - they are planning for 2022 & 2024. Tepid Trumpist Republicans find their moral dilemma of the last 5 years is good for at least 5 more. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 3 engage-rate 4% expands 3 impress 81 time 2020-11-15 23:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328120496949403648 ========== Roger Stone is still doing what he does best - lying, cheating, and stealing. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/13/business/stop-the-steal-disinformation-campaign-invs/index.html No sweat - Trump will pardon him. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 75 time 2020-11-14 05:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327482284975431682 ========== The lord high executioner. He gets rid of any Federal employees who think their oath was to the Constitution rather than to Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-white-house-purge/2020/11/13/2af12c94-25ca-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 76 time 2020-11-14 04:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327471296150528003 ========== Trump thinks he has options. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/us/politics/trump-future.html But he will not be nominated in 2024. He will be spending most of his time in court. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/opinion/trump-prosecution-lawsuits.html Trumpism is surely making a comeback in 2022 and will run hard in 2024 - under whom? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 45 time 2020-11-13 14:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327251282650808321 ========== Trey Grayson misunderstands (his) modern Republican Party. It's about the cult leader, not competence or efficiency. Instead of how fair his election was, Raffensperger should have been talking about all the fraud that Trump imagined. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/opinion/2020-election-raffensperger-georgia.html #PS1trumpism ===== impress 49 time 2020-11-13 05:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327116607886422018 ========== If you want to be non-Trumpist, you have to not be Trumpist! Trumpists allow no compromise. All the 2024 hopefuls seek to immobilize Trump on the sidelines without admitting it, while attacking all their rivals for doing the same! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/mike-pompeo-speech-trump-foreign-policy-reagan/2020/11/12/e662e012-2520-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 42 likes 1 time 2020-11-13 02:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327073694305243137 ========== Senate fantasies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-joe-biden-and-mitch-mcconnell-can-help-each-other/2020/11/10/7d374152-2393-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html Will fails to acknowledge that there is no point to compromise if one's goal is to preserve minority rule at any cost. If neede, McConnell can and will be replaced by somebody more pleasing to Trumpism's successor. #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 57 time 2020-11-12 03:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1326731395964694530 ========== Looks like Trump has carte blanche until January 5. Some Republicans say they'd object if he fired senior military officers, but don't believe it - they chose long ago to share his infamy. Should have removed him when they could! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-biden-esper-republicans-georgia-runoff/2020/11/11/85a96636-244b-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 50 time 2020-11-12 01:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1326699265423417349 ========== "National security requires that the transition get underway effectively. These are Republican values." Bolton still believes that? Not the modern Trumpist Republican Party - which just won an election, even if Trump lost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-bolton-trump-republicans-concession-transition/2020/11/11/aabcf372-2430-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 38 time 2020-11-11 19:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1326610914762616832 ========== Erasing a commandment. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/opinion/trump-lies.html So much for America's "Judeo-Christian heritage". Maybe it's not really a pillar of the right wing after all. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 32 time 2020-11-11 18:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1326592613009350656 ========== Nobody loves Bannon any more? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/09/facebook-steve-bannon-misinformation/ But maybe Trump will pardon him. #PS1trumpism ===== impress 49 time 2020-11-10 04:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1326026561741492225 ========== Too bad Mr. Biden - the Trumpists have vowed 100% resistance, no matter what the cost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/09/trump-is-now-sabotaging-national-security-soothe-his-bruised-ego/ No deals with McConnell! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-republicans-election-challenges/2020/11/09/49e2c238-22c4-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html Georgia senators want their secretary of state to resign for saying there was no evidence of fraud! #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 84 time 2020-11-10 03:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1326002265530925059 ========== The purge continues. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/11/09/trump-removes-climate-program-director/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 45 time 2020-11-10 00:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325962985467080704 ========== Trumpism owns the Republican Party now. The permanent part of the Republican Party is the Trump base of anti-liberals and single-issue voters, and the wealthy donors that exploit them. Other groups might visit but not for long. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/politics/republican-party-trump.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 76 time 2020-11-09 23:42 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325946972713308160 ========== Some defendants are simply indefensible! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-new-york-new-york-city-anthony-fauci-immigration-9fa837497e7727bfada49b6ea4f31cd5 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% impress 37 likes 1 time 2020-11-08 17:34 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325491852728889344 ========== Trump defeated; Trumpism victorious! Successors will label themselves Trumpists while hoping that he is out of the way in jail or exile or ICU. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/opinion/sunday/is-there-a-trumpism-after-trump.html Peronism thrived most when the Perons were out of the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peronism #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 74 time 2020-11-08 16:03 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325468944577163266 ========== Trumpism didn't disappear. How well will it continue to thrive internationally if Trumpists continue to control the US Senate? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/trump-populism-bolsonaro-duterte-orban/2020/11/07/53fcad7a-1e1d-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 44 time 2020-11-08 14:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325447435036971008 ========== Woe to the one Donald Trump holds responsible for his loss. But there can't be opportunity for other Trumpists until Donald Trump is out of the picture, so they may be hoping to exploit a vacuum for which somebody else is blamed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/05/if-trump-loses-recriminations-are-going-get-very-ugly/ #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 69 time 2020-11-07 01:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324891252303650816 ========== Bannon just being Bannon - hoping to ingratiate himself with Trump and get a pardon. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-06/twitter-suspends-bannon-account-youtube-banishes-video-on-fauci What's so bad about threatening violence? #PS1trumpism ===== impress 36 time 2020-11-06 23:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324855241699811328 ========== There is no "neutral" or "partial" in Trumpism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/06/republicans-whove-tried-exist-both-magaverse-reality-are-being-forced-choose/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 30 time 2020-11-06 22:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324838628598534144 ========== Compare McConnell and Trump! McConnell is devoted to minority rule and expects his legacy to outlive him. Trump has no interest in legacies of past or future, only in what's happening to him right now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/06/republicans-split-trump-election-fraud/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1284248351919681 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 34 time 2020-11-06 16:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324755007875395585 ========== The Triumph of Trumpism! Peronism didn't need any Perons and was simpler without them. Trumpism may be the same. Wasting no time - Out of Paris - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54797743 Out of DOD - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/long-odds-trump-defense-secretary-esper-has-prepared-resignation-letter-n1245846 #PS1trumpism ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 79 time 2020-11-05 23:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324489588597874690 ========== Former Republicans now 100% Trumpists - they think he helped them even if he lost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/05/even-if-trump-loses-takeaway-some-top-republicans-is-that-embracing-him-worked/ #PS1trumpism ===== impress 39 time 2020-11-05 23:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324488526285533184