2016 did not teach us polls are meaningless and that’s a dangerously stupid thing to say; it helps Trump’s inevitable attempts to falsely claim the country is behind his efforts to illegitimately seize power. https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1297569309854703617

Polls are not *determinative* and nobody should be complacent because of them. But this “2016 showed polls are meaningless” ignorance-masquerading-as-savvy is dangerous. It helps those (Trump) who can only thrive in chaos; who depend upon uncertainty about the will of the people.

It is very important that there is widespread understanding that Donald Trump does not have a majority of Americans behind him, and that is impossible if everyone keeps stupidly and falsely saying “2016 proved polls are meaningless.”

Trump will prematurely and inaccurately claim victory, and try to prevent vote-counting that would show him to have lost. Pre-election polls will be one indication that his claims are BS.

But faux-savvy pundits will have spent months telling America "polls are meaningless."

We've had nearly four years to prepare for the inevitability of Donald Trump deploying illegal and illegitimate efforts to retain power against the will of the people and our elites are completely unprepared for it.

I'm still mad about this nonsense too: https://twitter.com/jamisonfoser/status/1296315824970403842