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Roving journalist, friend to all dogs mtracey@protonmail.com / Signal: mtracey.57

Aug 28, 2020, 5 tweets

With the conventions over, here's what seems to be the Dems' argument against Trump: Democracy is on the verge of collapse and everyone needs to be a lot more conscious of racial identity. Maybe they'll still win. But it's kind of tedious and dumb argument
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Maybe the constant five-alarm-fire catastrophizing about Trump will ultimately be electorally effective. But it's also done long-term mental damage to the country and obscured the actual flaws in Trump's governance. Oh well!

Here's your occasional reminder that you can help fund this independent writing/reporting/ranting/video-making/etc. if you find it at all valuable. This summer has already been very successful in this regard, so thanks to all who have contributed

Doing a YouTube stream now on the stupidity of the "catastrophist" case against Trump (and, for that matter, Biden)

As I dramatically announced on the stream, over the next few months I'm going to make non-catastrophist cases against both Trump AND Biden. If nothing else, just to show that it's possible. And that you don't have to drive yourself insane with the brain-melting hyperbole

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