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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes
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Here are 10 thoughts in support of Patrice Comey's comment.
(1) We live in a two-party system.
(2) Trump is the leader of one of our two parties.
(3) That party has not ousted him or controlled him. It is, in fact, organized chiefly to support him.
(4) All of the internal party mechanisms to manage his demagoguery have failed.
(5) Trump is a threat to the rule of law.
(6) A party organized to support him and which has no internal mechanisms available to control his demagoguery is thus also a threat to the rule of law.

Hence, the Republican Party as currently constituted is a threat to the rule of law.
(7) In a two-party system, the only remedy when one party is functioning as a threat to the rule of law is to vote for the other party.
(8) Punishing the Republican Party for several election cycles up and down the ballot in a fashion that will reverberate for decades is the single most important thing to do to protect democracy.
(9) It is much more important than the Mueller investigation.
(10) Because in the end, one way or another in a democracy, the people get what they want. If we vote for a party that wants what is currently happening in our politics, we will get it--because we will deserve it.
From @jon_rauch and me a while back. google.com/amp/s/www.thea…
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