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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday that he was getting behind Donald Trump, TPM’s Sara Jerde reported. Hewitt has previously called Trump a slew of names and Trump seemed to return the favor in Septemeber when he said Hewitt had “very low ratings.”
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Josh Marshall: “Almost every day since he clinched the nomination almost six weeks ago has been a surreal tour through Trump’s damaged psyche – the insecurities, silly feuds, the mix of self-serving lies and attacks on people he’s supposed to be courting or justifying a supposed refusal to do things he finds himself actually unable to do (raise a billion dollars). More than anything he’s attacking almost everyone but the person he’s running against – and that, not terribly effectively. The major themes of his campaign appear to be racist “Mexican” judges, his ability to predict terror attacks and the inevitable destruction of the American republic.”
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From a TPM Prime member: “I think what I love about this most is that a truly universal basic income (not means tested or anything) just flat out says that everybody deserves a certain something from our collective GDP, regardless of perceived personal output. It skewers the moralistic notion that people reap what they sow because, you know, they really don’t. Some people reap way more, some way less. This creates, at least, a floor. It eliminates the notion that, “the world doesn’t owe you as living,” which has always struck me as a cruel sentiment when the economy absolutely requires some sort of work for survival.”
Related: A Democratic congresswoman hit back against Republican welfare reform by suggesting that the very wealthy should be drug tested for tax deductions.
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