Avenattization of politics

[Roland99]

Link to tweet

I tend to agree. He’s bombastic and hogs the spotlight.

[qazplm135]

1. As usual

Republicans get to act a fool and if Dems act even a little bit out of line folks get the vapors.

[ehrnst]

2. I'm actually glad that he's the one being truculent and insulting.

It gives those who want their own feelings acted out in the public sphere some gratification.

That way Democratic leaders can do their job, and keep the mantle of "calm and reasoned."

[manor321]

3. As always

Republicans can be fascists and Nazis but heaven forbid if Democrats fight back.

[Bettie]

14. That is the whole problem

why is that? Why are we just supposed to stand there and get hit in the face over and over with never a single hint of hitting back?

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Trump is the very first American "Insulter In Chief".

Don Rickles is our President.

[flibbitygiblets]

10. More like Andrew Dice Clay

[Funtatlaguy]

16. Whoa...Hickory Dickory Dock, that a really really small ____🤗

[lunatica]

23. Hammer meet nail...

[mythology]

18. Don Rickles was funny. Trump's a joke but not a funny one

[marble falls]

5. Avenatti has been a force for good, he hasn't lied and he's proven every single one ...

of his "bombasts" as factual and true. He may not be nice guy but he is a effective guy who brings out the truth. I wish we had more like him. I don't care if he defends porn stars or not.

[Trust Buster]

6. +1000

[rzemanfl]

7. We don't usually disagree, but if Avenatti weren't in the spotlight, the spotlight wouldn't be

on Democrats. Going high hasn't worked very well.

[blue cat]

8. Amen 🙏 n/t

[Squinch]

9. What democratic norm has Avenatti trashed, as the tweet accuses? Representing sexual assault

victims? Shouting to get them a hearing?

I don't see anything being trashed there.

[flibbitygiblets]

11. Everything Avenatti says is true

He's battling on our behalf. He's fighting for good.

Let's let him, okay?

[marylandblue]

12. This was inevitable when Trump was elected

His insulting self-serving brand of politics was bound to elicit an insulting self-serving reaction.

[EffieBlack]

13. Republicans tear everything apart, Democrats are mocked for being weak

if we don't fight fire with fire ...

But when anyone fights back, we're attacked for coarsening the debate.

[Bettie]

15. Exactly!

We NEED to fight back and if our elected representatives want to keep their hands clean, then Mr. Avanatti is a good surrogate.

[shanny]

17. The usual "can't we just get along?"/ both sides codswollop from the Atlantic. smdh

[ChoppinBroccoli]

19. Look Where Taking The High Road Has Gotten Us

I think it's high time a few of our guys dropped the gloves and start throwing haymakers too. And I've got news for you, our Presidential candidate is going to HAVE to be someone who's not afraid to brawl with the big, bad bully. Not Avenatti, but someone.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. I go back and forth. I don't like viewing him as a partisan hero for using legal means or media

sensations for bringing political change. I don't like seeing him as an "ally" or "one of ours" for political reasons -- I wouldn't want him to see him run for anything big, for example. I do delight in watching him turn the screw, but I agree that it helps degrade an already crumbling political process.

[Roland99]

21. Bingo!

[H2O Man]

22. Darned him!

[lunatica]

24. Avenatti has proven that men can be activist Feminists

I champion him! He doesn’t turn the other cheek and he doesn’t back down.

[LincolnRossiter]

25. Trump, enabled and emboldened by a complicit GOP caucus...

and throngs of fanatical cult-like supporters, has spent the last three years pissing on every “norm” and convention in national politics, but Dems are supposed to blame Avenatti for the continuing degradation of our national discourse.

Just so I’m tracking: On one hand we have a compulsively dishonest, amoral, corrupt to the core President of the United States, a cadre of enablers in a GOP-controlled Congress, and a Supreme Court that’s about to seat a sexually predatory, drunken, unhinged, ideological partisan fanatic.

So basically the whole government has been this asshole’s cudgel against every person and institution who won’t kiss his ass.

On the other we have a lawyer and TV personality who ruffles some feathers.

Yeah. If only we rein in Avenatti everything will go back to being copacetic.

What a bunch of self-indulgent tripe. That writer must be insane.

[Wounded Bear]

26. Does The Atlantic have any progressive cred any more?

[LincolnRossiter]

31. They aren't the only conventional mainstream outlet ...

that feels the need to pepper their content with right wing bullshit in order to seem “fair.” It seems as though conservatives’ decades-long crusade, to paint any media that doesn’t report their slanted lies side-by-side with and as an alternative to objective truth, is paying off.

[quadtetra]

27. Avenatti isn't a politician

He is just a private citizen attorney. What norms exactly is he breaking? Trump is POTUS. The article is rubbish.

[lapfog_1]

28. you should look more carefully at who you agree with

Seth (from his twitter feed) is obviously a Trumper... and here is another example of his "wisdom":

"While everyone's busy mocking them Kanye will get prison reform and Kim will get criminal-justice reform and they will be the most politically effective power couple on earth at the moment"

Riiiiight!

In another tweet he says that RBG has already Politicized the SCOTUS.

"I can think of very few justices of the Supreme Court who have been more openly and vocally partisan than Ruth Ginsburg--maybe Stephen Field. She is undermining an important norm that most justices have respected, and she damages the Court"

[dalton99a]

36. +1

[FreepFryer]

29. MEH. Depose Trump first, before we go after our own. (n/t)

[Autumn]

30. Fuck that noise. I'm going to need proof Liberals have been trashing certain Democratic norms.

Stinking pile of bullshit.

[violetpastille]

33. Right? Avenatti is a private citizen.

He's not an elected official. As long as the ABA Board of Ethics is fine with how he is representing his clients I don't see a problem.

At all.

While he's not my choice for President if he is the candidate I will vote for him.

[Autumn]

34. I like the fact that he's out there keeping all this to the front where it can't be ignored.

[Beakybird]

32. Avenatti lacks the wisdom to be a great statesman

He is ego driven. Nevertheless, he is a pugnacious fighter on the good side of the fight. I'm glad he's there.

[dalton99a]

35. So what law or ethics code has he violated?

[GeorgeGist]

37. He's a threat ...

to white privilege.

I say tough shit.