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Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank
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The important thing about Schumer's preemptive attack on Barrett is the dictum that your enemies will tell you who they fear.

My guess is "Chuck Schumer doesn't like her" will not be a big deterrent to Trump.
Trump is not immune to bad press or public criticism, but if there is one thing we should have learned about him by now, it's that you don't talk him out of things by telling him, "if you do this, people will be mad and there will be a fight."
Also I suspect Schumer is already visibly worried that "you don't understand why contraception is important to women" is not going to be the most effective argument against a mother of seven.
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