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A thought experiment: It is, alas, is EXTREMELY PLAUSIBLE that four years from now Trump will have won a rematch against Biden and we’ll be in the exact opposite situation.

Trump is still gaming out ways that GOP judges might steal the election for him, and he and they seem to be circling around this strategy.https://crooked.com/articles/trump-corrupt-endgame/ In their just-filed brief,

The “prioritize popular things” school doesn’t account for issues like court expansion and impeachment where public opinion follows elites. If Dems unify, it’ll become a 50-50 issue. If they let

All respect to Dan, but the bar for “right” here shouldn’t be set at “Trump attempts procedural coup and fails,” or “Dem landslide buries Trump’s election stealing ambitions.” Both of

My position has been: 1) no rescue that doesn’t include election protection, 2) no stimulus that isn’t tied to conditions and thus of equal benefit no matter who’s POTUS, 3)

Plus, if Dems truly believe health care is a magical election-winning issue, they’ll get Republicans on record supporting the unpopular mandate they claim to hate. Why? Because they want the

Give me a fucking break. “Donald Trump goes full hydroxychloroquine on an unverified vaccine to manipulate the election” is something he’s contemplating right out in the open. People aren’t as

A perfect opportunity to test some of the ideas I wrote about here. It shouldn’t be a total non-story that literally everything Trump says in trying to appeal to voters

Counterpoint: We are not helpless in the face of fake right-wing outrage; it is within the power of mediating figures and institutions to say “they are trying to manipulate people”

Fixed it for you, @nytimes. Fixed it for you, @nytimes. Fixed it for you, @washingtonpost. Fixed it for you, @nytimes. https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1267648829790224386?s=19 Fixed it for you, @nytimes. Fixed it for you,

They just want Trump to steal American cultural pride in the greatest generation and hand it to communist Russia–preferably on TV–and he will probably do it.https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1259490692340088832 TIL a bunch of

Remember when Trump used his daily propaganda briefing to hawk hydrochloroquine, resulting in several deaths and possibly his own personal enrichment, then when it failed as a therapeutic he and