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January 21, 2025 08:13 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“The future rewards those who press on.”

–Barack Obama

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21 thoughts on “Tuesday Open Thread

    1. lemme know when anything about Trump becomes "massive success."

      pick your Trump promise, and mark where we are today and where we are in a year.  I suspect this will be a slightly more professional-looking Sad!-ministration and I hope there won't be a repeat of the pandemic to challenge the federal government's competency, but if there is an overall measure on various Trump moves, I don't expect many "successes."

  1. "Who's Street's; Our Streets". H/T Heather Cox-Richardson.

    This morning, members of the far-right paramilitary organization the Proud Boys marched through the capital carrying a banner that read “Congratulations President Trump” and chanting: “Whose streets? Our streets!”

      1. This one surprises me as it will quickly bite him in the ass. His voters see this monthly.

        I remember reading about someone relatively high up in the Clinton or G.W. Bush administration. The said for the first 6 months their reflexive action was to do the oppisate of what the previous administration did. It took them that long to realize often the previous administration had put together something reasonable.

        Can totally see Trump undoing anything Biden did just because Biden did it.

    1. It's been 24 hours and the Russian "special military operation" in the Ukraine continues…did I miss a "bigly" ceasefire announcement? A post on Pravda Social?

  2. Today's post is about Colorado's energy plan. A couple of things I want to note:

    • I asked Will Toor if I could talk to him about this before publishing so he could give me the administration's perspective on this. He declined.
    • I totally understand anyone in the state government that did not have energy as part of their portfolio supporting the state's plan. Two months ago before I learned what I have recently I would have supported the state's plan.
    • Inexpensive reliable energy is critically important to our state's future. The Colorado Energy Plan fails on both.
  3. BirthRight Citizenship and Executive Orders. Josh Marshall at TPM:

    Look at your birth certificate. Does it identify one of your parents as an American citizen? If not, how do we know you are a citizen?

    Jonathan Last at The Bulwark has a good framework to understand what’s happening right now, what the overarching plan is. As we’ve discussed many times before, everything starts from the original fact that Trump won the Presidency in 2016 and was shocked and enraged by the fact that this didn’t guarantee that the country and his citizens would love him. Truly everything grows from the mix of hurt, resentment and retaliation that grew from there. As Last puts it term one was about destroying the opposition to him within the Republican party, something he very much accomplished. What he tried to do but didn’t have the time or ability was disciplining the federal government and its adherence to the rule of law and the larger society as expressed in the culture and the private sector. That’s what Trump is trying to do now: make the federal government personally obedient to him and the culture and economy as well. That’s not novel or earth-shattering but it’s a good, simple framework for understanding what he’s doing.

    It’s also daunting because Trump succeeded in making the GOP obedient to his will. And that line of tech execs lined up to praise him at his inauguration yesterday shows he’s off to a nice start there too.

    Not good.

    But there’s an important catch.

    Donald Trump was able to bring the GOP to heel for the simple reason that he made persuasively clear that no Republican politician or elected leader could remain in office or power without being obedient to him. A few tested the proposition and lost. A few others decided that meant the end of their political power. Most swore obedience. What it came down to was Republican voters, or at least enough of them to guarantee that no one could operate in the Republican party without Donald Trump’s approval.

    1. Not at all an expert on these things, but doesn’t it seem just a tad bit early to be mapping out the next insurrectionist attack on Congress?  Though I suppose it’s not like Gropebert’s got anything more important than being a disgrace, like maybe representing her new district, on her calendar.

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