helaineolen.bsky.social
A woman with many opinions, all my own. American Economic Liberties Project/contributing columnist MSNBC. Previously: WaPo, Slate. LA/NYC.
👤 Joined on 05 July 2023
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@helaineolen.bsky.socialWhat people need to remember about 2024 is that people outside Trump's MAGA base didn't vote for him because they were enthusiastic about him. They voted for him because Dems did not magically reset prices back to 2019 levels while keeping 2024 wages and Trump promised that he was magic businessman.
Show PostThe sole, even-barely-positive uniting vision of the Trump administration is “make America 1987 again.”
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Show PostI’m keeping an eye on how hard NYT, WaPo, WSJ and AP are avoiding writing about Jon Ossoff’s compelling, fact-based, hugely popular critique of Trump’s corruption, ineptitude, and venality. So far: Very hard. (Next, they’ll Mamdani him.)
Show Post“Ogre” isn’t the most offensive part. “Head on a pike” is. 2 Democratic legislators & their spouses were shot last year, two fatally. The President has called for Democratic Senators to be executed. And Gov. Whitmer was the target of a plot to kidnap & murder her. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
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