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Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior
@sarahkendzior
"There were long periods in the Trump admin where we had no Sec of Defense. We only had 'acting' officials to dodge oversight. Esper stepped down saying he won't be Trump's 'yes-man'. Esper's not a good guy, so you have to think -- what *wouldn't* he do?"

"Trump is surrounded by Iran war-mongers including rapture fiend Mike Pompeo, who is planning to meet with Netanyahu. Netanyahu is an indicted PM who Israelis have been protesting for twenty weeks. Trump and Netanyahu are both imperiled." -- @gaslitnation

"I'm worried about war in Iran. I'm also worried about arms sales, and if Trump and his cohort are selling them, where they're going. Trump has a long history with illegal arms traders and is tied to the world's most dangerous mobsters." -- @gaslitnation

"Trump has a tremendous amount of debt. While in office, he and Kushner have made illicit foreign deals to pay off that debt. There are no limits to what they will do now. Never forget that this is the mafia." -- @gaslitnation

"Another big concern regarding Trump's new military obsession is what @leahmcelrath calls 'annihilatory rage'. As a narcissistic sociopath, Trump will not be able to handle losing and will lash out in violent, frightening ways." -- @gaslitnation
POLITICS
Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior
@sarahkendzior
"With Hawley -- follow the money. Missouri is the dark money capital of the US. Hawley took in an enormous amount of NRA money right when the NRA was taking in Russian mafia money. He also has unnamed mega-donors. Find out who they are." -- @gaslitnation

"Hawley has no moral core. There's no 'there' there. He's a malleable actor and that's what makes him so dangerous -- he can be pushed in whatever direction his donors want him to go. He's full of greed and contempt for this country." -- @gaslitnation

"Now that we don't have Trump creating a new crisis every hour, we have time to research the hard questions like 'Who funds the GOP sedition Senators?' And 'Who paid off Brett Kavanaugh's massive debt?'"

"This applies to the Dems too -- vet them all! Look at shady donors like Len Blavatnik who fund both sides. Vet the elderly reps too -- don't assume you know everything. Campaign financing changed over the decades and they changed too." -- @gaslitnation

More on Josh Hawley from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT -- and on Missouri as the bellwether of American decline: https://t.co/IpjLWPjBH8
HAWLEY CORRUPTION
Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior
@sarahkendzior
The attack on "critical race theory" has little to do with theory and more a fear of:
1) historical accuracy
2) students recognizing a continuous line between atrocities of the US past and present
3) students recognizing parallels between atrocities in the US and other nations

When students learn the full scope of history, good and the bad, and that, as Arendt said, most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil -- they may have greater expectations for the present. They may sense their place in history and make a choice.

In the epilogue of HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, I describe taking my children to historical sites around the US out of concern our history would be drastically rewritten in coming years -- but also because kids deserve truth. Knowledge is power. This is what opponents of accuracy fear.
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Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior
@sarahkendzior
Interesting thread but unfortunately I disagree. We've had those inflection points: Charlottesville, Helsinki, Comey firing. He's always been very unpopular. Little changed.

Public opinion matters less when leverage -- like fair + free elections -- disappears. Protect leverage.


I have said since 2016 that Trump is most likely to lose power through legal means -- indictments for his crimes -- not by change in public opinion. He will not concede even if he loses and he will rewrite laws to protect himself. That's why he always was an extraordinary danger.

That's why it was crucial for Mueller and Comey before him to act early, because Trump consolidates power like a typical kleptocrat. But they didn't.

Best move now is to help Dems take Congress so that investigations can be carried out -- and investigators be protected by law.

Even in this best-case scenario of Dems winning and investigations continuing, there might be no justice, because Trump has now packed courts and purged agencies.

But knowledge is power. The public has the right to know what Trump & co have done. So keep pushing anyway.
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