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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: When besties break up [1]
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Date: 2025-06-04
David Brooks/New York Times:
I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge. Elite snobbery has a tendency to set me off, and here are two guys with advanced degrees telling us that regular soldiers never fight partly out of some sense of moral purpose, some commitment to a larger cause — the men who froze at Valley Forge, the men who stormed the beaches at Normandy and Guadalcanal. But that’s not what really made me angry. It was that these little statements point to the moral rot at the core of Trumpism, which every day disgraces our country, which we are proud of and love. Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies.
You hear from liberals, progressives and centrists all the time. Herein are some conservatives who have had it.
Peter Baker/New York Times:
Denouncing Antisemitism, Trump Also Fans Its Flames President Trump’s effort to punish Harvard over antisemitism is complicated by his extensive history of amplifying white supremacist figures and symbols. The appearance of the figure, the alt-right mascot Pepe the Frog, was the latest example of Mr. Trump’s extensive history of amplifying white supremacist figures and symbols, even as he now presents himself as a champion for Jewish students oppressed by what he says is a wave of hatred on American college campuses. As a younger man, Mr. Trump kept a book of Adolf Hitler’s speeches in a cabinet by his bed, according to his first wife. During his first term as president, he expressed admiration for some aspects of the Nazi Führer’s leadership, according to his chief White House aide at the time. In the past few years, he has dined at his Florida estate with a Holocaust denier while his New Jersey golf club has hosted events at which a Nazi sympathizer spoke.
Oh, yeah. Pepe.
x Elected Republicans are coalescing around the talking point that CBO's tax cut estimates are complete fiction and that tax cuts pay for themselves.
Well, CBO's 2018 and 2019 revenue estimates - which included the previous year's TCJA - were ... 99.5% accurate. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Q1qkBG2yWi — Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 (@JessicaBRiedl) June 3, 2025
New York Times:
Musk derides Trump’s bill, saying it will ‘massively increase the already gigantic’ deficit. Elon Musk lashed out on Tuesday against the far-reaching Republican bill intended to enact President Trump’s domestic policy agenda, posting on X that it was a “disgusting abomination” and telling House members who voted for it: “You know you did wrong.”
These two tweets posted w/o comment:
x I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore.
This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.
Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 3, 2025
x In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people
https://t.co/GTRc9Rjled — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 3, 2025
Well, almost without comment. This is a falling out.
New York Times:
Newark’s Mayor Sues a Top Trump Lawyer, Claiming Malicious Prosecution The mayor, Ras Baraka, is suing Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, who dropped charges against him soon after his arrest near an immigration jail. Mr. Baraka’s lawsuit accuses the federal authorities of false arrest and malicious prosecution. It also accuses Ms. Habba of defamation. The suit comes as polling locations opened Tuesday for six days of early voting ahead of a June 10 primary that has pitted Mr. Baraka against five other Democrats.
Timing is everything (when it’s not location).
x Here's the latest ISM survey, reporting what actual manufacturers are saying about the tariffs.
“Most suppliers are passing through tariffs at full value to us.. the supplier considers it a tax, and taxes always get passed through.. Very few are absorbing any portion.”… pic.twitter.com/CIE7ZQdJpX — Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 2, 2025
POLITICO:
White House allies ‘disappointed’ at Musk’s opposition to megabill The GOP faces internal opposition over its legislative priority. The House-passed megabill represents the president’s chief — and potentially only — major legislative priority this Congress. But Elon Musk’s opposition suggests that the coalition that vaulted Trump to the White House is still facing internal disagreement over it as it makes its way through the Senate. It marks another dust-up between the MAGA and Tech Right. And it raises the possibility some members face pressure from Musk if they ultimately support it.
Axios:
The final straw for Musk appeared to come Saturday night, when Trump abruptly announced he was withdrawing the nomination of Jared Isaacman, a Musk ally, to be NASA administrator. The intrigue: After Isaacman's nomination was dropped, word quickly spread in the White House that Sergio Gor — the director of the Office of Presidential Personnel who had clashed with Musk — was behind the decision.
I can’t tell you how bad this Trump-Musk split is, but I can tell you that it is real.
x Democrats outraged with DHS after Nadler staffer handcuffed
https://t.co/ZI1Y3kFizT — The Hill (@thehill) June 4, 2025
David Shuster on hypocrisy, Texas style:
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