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Two years ago I was an unknown union mechanic in Nebraska. Then I ran for US Senate. We shocked everyone and got 47%. Multi-billionaire Pete Ricketts is Nebraska's other Senator. He's up next year. We could replace a billionaire with a mechanic. Thread 🧵

I'd add that while a favourite intra-leftist criticism is that some ocus too much on an idealized masculine blue collar working class over the actually existing heavily female service sector working class...its clear that both have swung heavily Republican.

In the 19th century, when all politics was tariff politics, it was obvious that the action was in Congress. The Tariff of Abominations was a bill passed by the House, not a giant lithograph wheeled out to the White House lawn by John Quincy Adams

Yeah but you know who makes about twice as much as McDonalds workers in Denmark? Manufacturing workers in Denmark

April 9 is a good day to remember how Thaddeus Stevens understood the constitutional relationship between Congress and the President

Today marks an end to the beautiful dream of outsourcing all liberal politics to the S&P 500, the bond market, and Bloomberg guys tweeting in all caps

Interesting: while Democrats in working-class districts—Gretchen Whitmer, Chris Deluzio—still hedge on tariffs, left-liberal pundits seem to have accepted the new dispensation, in which voters are consumers, not workers, and blue-collar labor is no longer vital to the D coalition

After rolling back many of his tariffs Trump had Charles Schwab and others in the Oval Office. He pointed out that his guests had made fortunes on the stock market just one hour after his announcement. “He made 2.5 billion today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”

People complain about “the left” valorizing big manly manufacturing labor, but I’m not sure what left they’re talking about. this kind of thing seems far more common

Stephanie McCurry gave the best response to this take a decade ago: No, the South did not win the Civil War nytimes.com/roomfordebate/…

Shawn Fain is obviously correct about both halves of this, and I have nothing but contempt for the libs who are mad at him for not overcorrecting all the way to free-trade absolutism.

Realizing for the hundredth time that this platform is intrinsically bad for politics and debate — and that was true even before it became the personal property of the worst guy in the world. Logging off for a while. Might return when I've got a book manuscript but not before