Jonathan Chait
Writer for New York magazine. Tweets with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story
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Badgers Football COVID Outbreak Might Doom Trump in Wisconsin
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A high-profile symbol of Trump’s failure.
Jonathan Chait The October surprise is Wisconsin cancelling its next football game because of the covid outbreak Trump says itn't happening 128d
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Why Reopening Schools Has Become the Most Fraught Debate of the Pandemic
The American Prospect 128d 9 tweets
Popular writers and academics have dismissed words of caution from epidemiologists about coronavirus transmission among children.
Jonathan Chait This crystallizes the problem I have with 's argument: it assumes we should optimize for public health, when the whole problem is failing to weigh the other side of the equation, the massive harm to low income families caused by closing schools 128d
The Stench of Trump’s Racism Will Cling to His Enablers Forever
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Conservatives who say they just want to stick it to woke radicals have exposed themselves.
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Jonathan Chait The Trump stink is never going to wash off his enablers 128d
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Jonathan Chait The stench of Trump's racism will stay on his enablers forever 128d
Win or Lose, It’s Donald Trump’s Republican Party
Nytimes.com 129d 8 tweets
The G.O.P.’s politicians, activists and voters are still figuring out what that means.
Jonathan Chait Read this really well-reported and sharply rendered report on how Trump changed the GOP 129d
“Seems Like They Are Obsessed With Senator Whitehouse”: Is the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Too Cozy With the Bradley Foundation?
Vanity Fair 129d 2 tweets
The Rhode Island senator’s “dark money” riff at a SCOTUS hearing drew fire from the Journal’s Opinion side—which includes recipients of Bradley’s quarter-million-dollar prizes. The foundation, says Paul Gigot, has “no influence on what we write.”
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Jonathan Chait If books for "smart conservatives" are written by Stephen Moore, who's writing for the dumb conservatives? 129d
Gamblers Say Trump Is Almost Tied With Biden. Don’t Bet on It.
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It sure seems like the election-prediction markets are informed more by hobbyist enthusiasm than political reality.
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Jonathan Chait If you've ever been curious about why election betting markets don't seem to actually work, has a good concise explanation 129d
Investor Bill Gross accused of blaring ‘Gilligan's Island' song on loop to torment neighbor
Laurence Darmiento - Los Angeles Times 130d 7 tweets
A dispute between bond king Bill Gross and a neighbor over an outdoor sculpture has devolved into police calls to their Laguna Beach mansions and allegations that the billionaire investor blared the "Gilligan's Island" theme song on repeat.
The Tortured Self-Justification of a Trump Enabler
Olivia Nuzzi - Intelligencer 130d 24 tweets
How an anonymous Republican squares his love of power with his contempt for the president.
Jonathan Chait A small point about this fantastic profile of an anonymous anti-Trump Republican who often talks to reporters 130d
Trump Admits China, Russia, North Korea are Rooting for Him to Beat Biden
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“President Xi from China, President Putin from Russia, Kim Jong-un, North Korea … They don’t want to deal with Sleepy Joe.”
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Jonathan Chait Trump tells crowd Putin, Xi and Kim Jong Un all want him to beat Biden 130d
Trump Let the Right Make Him the Herbert Hoover of the Coronavirus
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The virus was a chance for Trump to revive his presidency. He blew it by listening to conservatives.
Jonathan Chait The coronavirus gave Trump the chance to revive his campaign. Instead he followed the right wing and became another Hoover. 130d
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Jonathan Chait Trump had the chance to revive his campaign by seizing hold of the chance to use the powers of the presidency to advance the public good. Instead, he sacrificed himself on the Hooverite altar of laissez-faire. 130d
WSJ News Exclusive | Health Agency Scraps Coronavirus Ad Campaign, Leaving Santa Claus in the Cold
Stephanie Armour - WSJ 131d 43 tweets
A federal health agency halted a public-service coronavirus advertising campaign funded by $250 million in taxpayer money after it offered a special vaccine deal to an unusual set of essential workers: Santa Claus performers.
Jonathan Chait I would like you to do me a favor, though 131d
Ivanka, Jared: Don’t blame us on Times Square billboards for Trump administration COVID-19 death toll — we’ll sue
New York Daily News - nydailynews.com 133d 3 tweets
Trump and Kushner on Friday threatened to sue The Lincoln Project, a Republican group that is using Times Square billboards to taunt them over the COVID-19 death toll.
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Jonathan Chait I'm sure this high profile lawsuit is the last thing the Lincoln Project wants. "Oh no, we are publicity-shy, and we can't afford lawyers because are oh so poor," they saying. 132d
Even If Trump Loses, Republicans’ Authoritarian Ambitions Will Live On
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What an election can and can’t save.
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Jonathan Chait My column for our last pre-election magazine tries to summarize the big-picture stakes: a battle in a war for democracy that will go on and on 132d
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Jonathan Chait The way to think of this election is as a major battle in a long war to determine whether America will be a democracy 131d
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Jonathan Chait Trump has cut one really big deal: He gave Republicans control of domestic policy in return for a free hand to do crimes 131d
Never Forget the Hypothetical Victims of Biden’s Swine Flu Disaster
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Biden’s pandemic was much worse, except for the lack of death.
Jonathan Chait Biden Swine Flu apologists are besmirching the memory of the hypothetical 700,000 Americans who died from his mismanagement 133d
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Jonathan Chait As one of the 99.996 percent of Americans lucky enough to survive Biden's swine flu disaster, i must carry forward the memory 133d
Here’s Who Biden Is Considering for Top Jobs in His Administration
Intelligencer 133d 2 tweets
He still needs to win, of course. But campaign documents and sources close to Biden suggest how the cabinet could take shape.
Trump’s Plan to Make Biden Look Senile Disappeared Without a Trace
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The whole plan was to expose Biden’s supposed dementia.
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Jonathan Chait Remember Biden dementia? We spent like a year obsessing about it? The issue is just gone 133d
Hunter Biden wins the debate
POLITICO 134d 5 tweets
Donald Trump tried to turn debate day into a trial of the Biden family's allegedly shady business dealings. It didn't go smoothly.
Jonathan Chait A good point by about Bobulinski's weak-even-if-true charges: 133d
Trump Tries to Make ‘Laptop from Hell’ the New Hillary Emails. It Won’t Work.
Jonathan Chait - Intelligencer 134d 8 tweets
It’s not 2016, and Biden isn’t Clinton.
Jonathan Chait Here's why Trump supporters went nuts demanding the media amplify their Hunter Biden charges, and why it fell apart 133d
Jonathan Chait Trump's debate strategy was to turn the Hunter Biden laptop into a giant scandal. It wont work like it did with Clinton's emails in 2016. 134d
Jonathan Chait Trump is trying to make the Hunter laptop the new Hillary emails. It won't work. 134d
Trump Says Wind Turbine Noise Causes Cancer. (It Does Not.)
Jonathan Chait - Intelligencer 134d 1 tweets
The president gives his kookiest reason yet to oppose wind power.
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Mysterious Mena
WSJ 134d 1 tweets
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