Manisha Sinha

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President elect 2024 of Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn

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Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Happy 4th of July, let us preserve the experiment in republican government!

Tyranny of the Minority egged on by a Supreme Court willing to overthrow the Constitution and a political party operating as a neo fascist one to destroy the American Republic.

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It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists. See:

Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuaryketanjoshi.co I got some data that analyses how climate deniers have changed their audience size, relative to pro-climate accounts, on Musk's Twitter. It's....not good.

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NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW NO, ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!

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I don't know how you lose running against a Court that wants to prosecute the pregnant and preemptively pardon that perpetrator.

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The MAGA movement will not be shamed by pointing out the basic features of a liberal pluralist democracy. They don't believe in any of it. They see it as a weakness, something that merely holds them back or slows their efforts to reshape their world.

Tyranny of the Minority egged on by a Supreme Court willing to overthrow the Constitution and a political party operating as a neo fascist one to destroy the American Republic.

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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Checking on prominent originalists on the other site, I can't find one who has criticized yesterday's anti-textualist immunity opinion. All have tweeted on other topics. Here are the reactions: Mocks dissent: Barnett Silence: Baude, Green, McGinnis, Rappaport, Sachs, Whittington

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Official act. Immune.

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Don't forget the Sharpie.

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Historian here the Supreme Court of the United States just ruled that the President can do no wrong in his official capacity and is above the rule of law and the people. Seems like the founders were all wrong to reject monarchy say the “originalists” on the court.

SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.

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CNN's new poll doesn't establish some failsafe alternative to Biden for Democrats. But it does run against the twin ideas that the debate itself doomed Biden and that Harris isn't a viable alternative. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | A new national poll turns post-debate conventional wisdom on its headwww.washingtonpost.com As always, though, we should be cautious about reading too much into one poll.

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Biden’s statement was really good, IMO. And very effectively delivered.

Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.

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My article for @newrepublic “The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.” newrepublic.com/article/1833...

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a Kingnewrepublic.com The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

OMG the Portuguese goalie! For a moment I forgot about the out of control Supreme Court!

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"It seems history matters to this Court only when it is convenient." From Sotomayor's dissent

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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The “joe biden has the chance to do the funniest thing ever” jokes are now literally correct

SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.

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Welp. I think we’ll hear about presidential immunity from SCOTUS today. The fact that this is an open question is stunningly wrong-headed. You certainly can’t claim the founders wanted it. Or rather, you can. But you’d be wrong. Here’s a brief explaining why. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

<p>Historians' Amicus Brief in <em>Trump v. United States</em></p>www.brennancenter.org A group of 15 founding era historians represented by the Brennan Center and Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman LLP have filed a brief challenging Trump's claim of immunity.

I am no political pundit but I think @POTUS should do a long form interview with a major channel on prime time to contain some of the fall out from the debate. Biden was good with that and the State of the Union a couple of months ago.

Unlike many others On Here, I don't think there's a way for Biden to bow out without it leading to extreme risks of a very different kind. We need more of an acknowledgment from the replace-Biden camp that this is not a remotely easy dilemma. newrepublic.com/article/1832...

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Before SCOTUS' ruling, here's our historian's brief which argues there is no basis in founding era history for the idea that presidents should enjoy immunity. In fact, the founders believed that presidents should be accountable under the rule of law. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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This essay by Dallek about LBJ's decision not to seek reelection is a fine reminder of the unpredictability of events, which may be history's greatest lesson.

Here’s a better take www.history.com/news/lbj-exi...

LBJ Announced He Wouldn’t Run Again. Political Chaos Ensued | HISTORYwww.history.com How President Johnson’s exit from the 1968 presidential race rocked politics.

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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”

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National pundits are doing their level best to manifest a world in which Kamala Harris does not exist

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i cannot get over the basic incoherence of “harris dropped out before voting in 2020 therefore she is definitely unelectable” and then in the same breath saying “this governor who has never run a national campaign would be guaranteed to be more successful”

Tom Nichols has the dumbest possible anti-Harris case 1. Harris is an unremarkable VP (unlike almost all of them except his buddy Dick Cheney) 2. She has low approval from racists 3. A batshit conspiracy theory he made up that people will believe Biden has been Harris’s stalking horse since 2020

Historian in France here, when my husband quipped in Toulouse that we may not be traveling from a democracy next year, our French host quipped back that you may not be traveling to a democracy next year. I hope the French reject neo fascism Le Pen and the smarmy Bardella today!