Norm Ornstein
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Norm Ornstein
@normornstein.bsky.social
Political scientist, co-host of Words Matter podcast, contributor to The Contrarian
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There will be a book on right wing men and sydney sweeney someday
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Heritage president Kevin Roberts is on the board of a nonprofit (SLI) led by Nate Fischer who separately launched a venture in 2023 w/ Raw Egg Nationalist who “has a history of posting swastikas & other Nazi imagery,” which Fischer has called “ironic trolling” rather than “genuine Nazi belief” 1/
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We knew that Republicans, who repeatedly flouted the rules and norms, would change the rules in a nanosecond if it blocked any significant part of their agenda. We will soon see if John Thunes long-standing commitment and his word mean anything. Count me a skeptic.
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thune and his colleagues, of course, have piously pledged over and over that they will never touch the filibuster, something they used over and over when Biden was president. Democrats who blocked change, including Manchin and Sinema, took that as gospel. Some of us knew better. 2
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM