A lot of people who dislike Mamdani seem to be missing this difference: Kamala embracing Cheney, or Jeffries meeting with Kushner, send terrible public messages. Jeffries is the guy we are counting on to lead criminal accountability and punishment for corrupt assholes like Kushner. Soon! In Jan!

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I hope people can see through the headlines and knee-jerk superficial similarities, and consider what each individ is trying to achieve and the real costs and benefits of meetings. There is some cost to the public of Mamdani meeting with Trump. but it is very different than the other cases.

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thus Mamdani isn’t being hurt by meeting with Trump. And any normalization of Trump is outweighed— because the thing is that Trump is already normalized. The diffs in costs and benefits are real and substantive.

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Kamala was trying to say she represented change. But doing a bipartisan with Cheney signaled status quo. The public appearance hurt Kamala.

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It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.

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