The extraordinary juxtaposition on Tuesday night -- open lawbreaking combined with an invented narrative in which Biden and Dems are the corrupt party -- showed a GOP that has unshakable confidence in its ability to act with utter impunity.

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Dear media:

If your conclusion is that voters won& #39;t care about serial lawbreaking and corruption, then perhaps that& #39;s grounds for introspection, not for validating the idea that this is a savvy and realistic calculation on the perpetrators& #39; part.

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Trump is using levers of government to illicitly hold power:

* Lawbreaking at convention

* Senate Rs manufacturing fake Hunter/Ukraine probe

* Bill Barr downplaying 2016 Russian sabotage

* Intel officials muting truth about Russian meddling right now https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/26/gop-convention-just-ripped-mask-off-trumps-corruption-lies/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...

In a sense Trump campaigned in 2016 on his own corruption: All politicians are crooked, so elect me; I& #39;ll break rules for *you.*

Media treats this as populist grandstanding.

But now we need to be clearer. Trump is trying to hold power via illicit means:

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