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Damon Linker
@DamonLinker
Senior Lecturer in Political Science @Penn / Senior Fellow @NiskanenCenter / Newsletter scribe
Philadelphia, PA
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    Damon Linker
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    Nov 13, 2024
    Is this his 1st wife? Or the woman w whom he cheated on his 1st wife? Or his 2nd wife? Or the woman w whom he cheated on his 2nd wife & had a child while married to the 2nd wife? Or his 3rd wife, who is the woman w whom he cheated & had a child while married to the 2nd wife?
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    Andrew Quackson
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    Nov 13, 2024
    New secdef. I am so ready
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    Damon Linker
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    Jan 20, 2025
    IT'S OK WHEN OUR PRESIDENT PREEMPTIVELY PARDONS HIS ENTIRE FAMILY FOR CRIMES THEY MAY HAVE COMMITTED OVER A PERIOD OF MORE THAN ELEVEN YEARS BECAUSE WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS, UNLIKE THE OTHER SIDE.
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    Damon Linker
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    Nov 16, 2020
    I think Dems are wildly underestimating the intensity of anger college loan cancelation is going to provoke. Those with college debt will be thrilled, of course. But lots and lots of people who didn't go to college or who worked to pay off their debts? Gonna be bad.
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    Tom Winter
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    Nov 7, 2020
    Schumer saying Biden can cancel first $50,000 in student debt via executive order. And will do so in first 100 days. This will change so many lives.
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    Damon Linker
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    Feb 22, 2025
    At the end of an extremely alarming week, the most alarming development is prob Trump firing the Chairman of the JCs & heads of the Navy and Air Force, along with the top lawyers for the Army, Navy, & Air Force. Those are the people who will tell a POTUS "you can't do that." 1/4
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    Damon Linker
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    Aug 15, 2021
    Five Thesis on Afghanistan: 1. It’s always possible to find things to criticize when events go worse than one might have hoped. But this is the reality Joe Biden faced: The Trump administration negotiated with the Taliban for American withdrawal by May 1, 2021.
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    Damon Linker
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    Sep 26, 2020
    My daughter is 14. There could be a female Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court until she’s in her fifties.
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    Damon Linker
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    Nov 13, 2024
    Just asking perfectly reasonable questions.
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    Damon Linker
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    Oct 14, 2020
    Who has the cultural power to determine that "sexual preference" is now a slur? And who gave it to them?
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    Damon Linker
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    Aug 15, 2021
    Replying to @DamonLinker
    2. All Americans should be furious w Petraeus, Allen, McMaster, and the other generals. They have either been horribly wrong for at least a decade about the state of Afghan forces or lying to the American people for longer. Or both. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/…
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    Damon Linker
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    Jun 28, 2024
    Every Democrat in American should be white-hot livid that this has been permitted to happen.
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    Damon Linker
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    Nov 5, 2025
    Young women hate Republicans. A smart Republican Party would think about how they can do a better job of appealing to them. But MAGA responds by fantasizing about repealing the 19th Amendment. Which gives us a pretty good explanation of why young women hate Republicans.
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    Rachel Janfaza
    @racheljanfaza
    Nov 5, 2025
    Young women are the story of tonight. 81% for Mamdani in NYC 80% for Sherrill in NJ 78% for Spanberger in VA per NBC's exit polls.
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    Damon Linker
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    Jul 21, 2024
    One lesson: For all of its abundant problems, the Democratic Party in 2024 is still a party and not a cult of personality around one man.
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    Damon Linker
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    May 9, 2025
    With the Pirro appointment, we see once again that Trump is just an elderly man who watches Fox News all day and thinks the on-air talent is as good as it gets. Which makes sense, because the on-air talent is chosen to impress elderly men who watch Fox News all day.
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    Damon Linker
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    Aug 15, 2021
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    Without the US fighting for them, the Afghan military was worthless, which means it was worthless, full stop. 20 years. 40 years. 100 years. It wouldn’t matter. There was no viable plan to succeed.