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Drew Westen, PhD. Author, professor, political messaging consultant. Clinician and occasional singer-songwriter. Politics. Psychology and Psychiatry.

Washington, DC
Joined February 2017
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@westen_drew
ThePoliticalBrain
1 year
Vis-a-vis Trump‘s NATO remarks, below is a careful diagnostic profile, based on my decades as a psychiatric diagnostician. Comparisons to Hitler are virtually never apt.This time,they are.Trump presents the greatest threat to world democracy since Hitler.
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@westen_drew
ThePoliticalBrain
2 months
Why did this kid require so many cops? Why do we even know who he is? Because he killed a man who killed, deterred from treatment, or strangled millions with medical debt. If CEOs did not own Congress, corporate murder would be a criminal offense.
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@westen_drew
ThePoliticalBrain
2 months
Talk politics with family on holidays? Keep those "safe words" ready...
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ThePoliticalBrain
2 months
On T-giving, when half our relatives seem like turkeys, what to do? An excerpt from an interview w me for the Sunday Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Probably for the better, she left out the wisecracks, like the kinds of "safe words" that prevent the -uh - bonds of family from getting a little too tight.
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ThePoliticalBrain
2 months
On T-giving, when half our family seem like turkeys, what to do? An excerpt from an interview w the Sunday Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Probably for the better, she left out the wisecracks, like the kinds of "safe words" we might use to loosen the -uh - bonds of family.
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@westen_drew
ThePoliticalBrain
3 months
From my old college classmate. I don't think you could say this any better.
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@westen_drew
ThePoliticalBrain
3 months
From my old college classmate. I don't think you could say this any better.
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ThePoliticalBrain
3 months
@JStein_WaPo Biden did an amazing job with the economy. His communications team was the worst I've seen in my lifetime. They communicated nothing. They warned people of nothing negative that might be coming down the road and how they would be addressing it. He should have had fireside chats.
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ThePoliticalBrain
7 months
Wait - favorite Bob Dylan album? I was on the White Dudes for Harris call, and I missed that part. I thought the Beatles were the ones who did "The White Album."
@dudes4harris
White Dudes for Harris
7 months
Honestly, @ronnychieng... we tried to write a joke about our favorite Bob Dylan album but then we... ended up getting into a debate about our favorite Bob Dylan album. #whitedudesforharris
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ThePoliticalBrain
7 months
Wow, I never knew he was a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader! I guess he was DeSantis' sartorial inspiration for the white cheerleader boots.
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enrich12
7 months
@TheRickWilson Donald Trump is weird. And #scared.
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@westen_drew
ThePoliticalBrain
7 months
@1drcole Really good point. Never dignify him by calling him President Trump or former president Trump. He is Trump, Donald Trump, or little Donnie.
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ThePoliticalBrain
7 months
@bradbaumn How do we buy one?
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ThePoliticalBrain
8 months
Every Democrat needs to pin this on every Republican, everywhere: Vote GOP for no contraception, no IVF, no abortion, no freedom. This is not only a women’s issue. It’s a person’s issue. Guys, enjoy rubbers? Vote Republican. #HandsOffMyBirthControl
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Skyleigh Uhrich
8 months
These are the Trump-aligned Republicans who just blocked a bill to protect a woman’s right to contraception. -@SenateGOP all 👀on you. The war on women will end at the ballot box in November as we name and shame you every day till. #HandsOffMyBirthControl
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ThePoliticalBrain
9 months
Great example in which President Biden’s focus on ALL Americans’ health – dramatically cutting the cost of inhalers, as he did w insulin – reduces the disproportionate impact on people from poor communities of color, where asthma rates are highest. #BreatheEasierWithBiden.
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Christine Pelosi
9 months
Millions of Americans are living with asthma — and egregiously high inhaler prices. But @JoeBiden and Democrats fought corporate price gouging and won. Starting June 1, families will #BreatheEasierWithBiden when the monthly cost of most inhalers will be capped at $35 a month.
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@westen_drew
ThePoliticalBrain
9 months
Make America great again. (BTW, in characteristic style, Trump stole that campaign slogan from Ronald Reagan.) #NoOneIsAboveTheLaw
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@westen_drew
ThePoliticalBrain
9 months
Time for the Supreme Court to stop their faux “deliberation” on whether Trump is an absolute monarch and stop colluding with him to create doubt about the judicial system. He is not a king. He is a con man and a convict. #NoOneIsAboveTheLaw via @YouTube
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@westen_drew
ThePoliticalBrain
9 months
Either he has dementia or he’s partying all night with the next round of recipients of hush money.
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ThePoliticalBrain
10 months
There is increasing evidence that radicalization of college students in the US was systematically planned by Iran and its proxies. Their protests beginning while Israel was still defending itself on October 8 and had not yet fired a shot at Gaza, the use of the same words, e.g., colonizers to refer to the original inhabitants of Palestine who were kicked off their land 2000 years ago), genocide (against the people who suffered the greatest genocide in human history, fighting an enemy whose charter recommends martyring their own people and who surround themselves with women and children or place their munitions and command hubs below hospitals and tunnels below the most densely populated civilian areas), apartheid (without explaining the history of why Jews needed their own state, which would turn into an Islamic califate and repeat the genocide of the Jews the moment they became a minority in their own homeland, which is what led to the idea of a two State solution in 1947), from the river to the sea (which I would guarantee less than 1% of American college students had ever heard before or know that the geography it describes is the entirety of Israel or that it comes straightout of the Hamas charter as a pledge to drown Jews in the Red Sea); and miraculously, somehow tents that look identical just showed up at dozens of universities at the same time, as students were visiting those universities with their parents to decide where to attend next year, and just in time for graduation. I agree with you, Brooklyn dad, this is not being coordinated by the students themselves. But I believe they are being manipulated, and all it takes is a few bad apples illustrating the “strength“ that comes with violence, and some good kids will follow suit. And I agree with you that protest is essential to our democracy. Violent protest is poison to it.
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@westen_drew
ThePoliticalBrain
10 months
After decades of negative branding by the right, Biden has taught a new generation the value of unions. Without a voice and a seat at the table, CEOs have no incentive to share the fruits of productivity with the people who created it. Don’t count on largesse. Count on leverage.
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Skyleigh Uhrich
10 months
“I’ve walked proudly in union picket lines while Trump bashed unions from nonunion shops.” FACT -@POTUS 😎🔥
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@westen_drew
ThePoliticalBrain
10 months
This is what Biden is doing for ordinary Americans by executive order, even without the help of Congress. In his 2nd term, we will see this kind of reform in industry after industry. A Democratic Congress would make these orders permanent. #VotingMatters.
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