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Robert #Resist Sandy @frodofied
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There are no words for how damaging any of this is for our international credibility, internal British politics, and for Theresa May's position.

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"Donald Trump says UK's proposed Brexit would kill trade deal with US" twitter.com/i/events/10176…
While the Conservatives would have lost the last election had Labour not been led by an even more acerbic, arrogant, ineffectual, and inflexible version of Bernie Sanders, they were at least smart enough to choose May over the toxic showboat that is Boris Johnson.

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But May's position is tenuous and slipping. Johnson left the government last week and is waiting for the moment that he will usurp May's job.

Johnson will be probably happen now, and he will be a disaster for Britain, Brexit, and the world.
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It's really not that complicated. How we got here and the things that happened to get us here may be complicated, but it doesn't take more than a kindergarten level education to understand the 'when all is said and done' reality.

Donald Trump cheated to become President.

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More than half of America believes that and has from the beginning.

We know this and yet.

There is no game, test, sport, or monitored event on Earth where cheating is accepted or rewarded in the way we have awarded Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

Not a single one.

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You cheat in sports and unless you're the New England Patriote and are discovered they will destroy you.

Look at Lance Armstrong, that man survived cancer, then started a foundation that inspired countless others and raised millions for research.

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I'm going to address a couple points & then mute this comment thread.

If you don't think that @HillaryClinton or the people around her, many of whom were brilliant & socially conscious POC, didn't know of or understand the data you're referencing then you know nothing of HRC.
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You certainly don't seem to recall the finer details of 2016 and, despite your claims to understand the particular pressures she was under, refuse to give those pressures their proper due.

In an election filled with fake news & populist hyperbole from the far right & left..

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...an election that was overwhelmed by such virulent misogyny it actually started to feel normal, where Clinton was mocked for being too prepared, and was lectured for being too wonky, and where she was already offering some pretty nuanced and in depth arguments on race...

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Not understanding your point. You expect that Clinton would come out on the losing end of such a comparison?

I totally disagree.

I've listened to @HillaryClinton speak passionately about race for three decades.

Race and racism were a central focus of her 2016 campaign.

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She didn't speak about it just every once in awhile @amikegreen, she spoke about it every single day of the campaign.

In fact, race and criminal justice was the topic of her first policy paper for the campaign, which she presented in April 2015.

sipa.columbia.edu/news/hillary-r…

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She continued making major speeches on the topic of race throughout the campaign.

Here again from June 2016.

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#Brexit as a concept is increasingly drifting from having anything whatsoever to do with the mechanics of leaving the EU. It is now primarily a culture war and both sides will totally ignore the details except for when they are temporarily convenient.
The consequence of this is that our future relationship with the EU will be just as readily ignored as our activities as a member. They said Brexit would make us isolated, self absorbed and insular but it seems that was always the case and there are no signs of that changing.
As ever the details will be delegated to officials and civil servants while our establishment politics drifts further into its cycle of decline, unable to usefully influence external events making us entirely passive and reactive to events rather than self-interestedly engaged.
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