Thread by @TenuredRadical

What seems most obvious to me about the reception of the #MuellerReport is that media, and citizens, on the left and the right have not yet learned that taking extreme positions on something that, as yet, we know very little about. THREAD

For example, go ahead and crap on #WilliamBarr if you like, but we do not know that he has not characterized the report correctly BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT YET SEEN IT.

My friends on the left take the absence of a condemnation of Trump in the letter as evidence of more corruption. And surely, even though we have been repeatedly warned that removing the President has perils, somehow waiting to defeat him in an election seems intolerable.

I say: GET A GRIP. Politics and organizing takes time. Democrats have time; they have already used their time well in taking back the House. There is no left revolution coming, no matter what @BernieSanders and his people tell you. WE need more democracy, not less.

My friends on the right, on the other hand, are all about the President's innocence, and that because the #MuellerReport found nothing, it was obviously a waste of time and tax dollars, and mere harassment.

Also not true. May I point out that the @GOP started this, with the #Whitewater investigation in the 1990s, where every single business connection investigated exonerated the Clintons. But along the way, there was #monicalewinsky, and some other really disturbing stuff.

At which point, the @GOP tried, and failed, to remove the President.

The similarity I would draw here between #Clinton & @realDonaldTrump is not sexual, although differently, they both strike me as sexual predators. Both were serial liars, whose lies were supported by others, inc. partisans who claimed they were innocent well beyond plausibility.

Multiple associates of @realDonaldTrump have been prosecuted, mostly for lying, but also for the side hustles they created within our electoral process. Ask yourself: does a man who lies, and associates himself with liars and grifters, seem like a person who should be reelected?

I would say no. He should not be. Furthermore, it is quite clear that Trump has built a career on falsehoods and cheating people, from plumbers to bankers to his own investors. Much of this came out because of the #MuellerInvestigation.

In addition, a President who does not make his tax returns available to others, might rightly be understood as hiding things, BECAUSE HE IS. (Are you listening, @BernieSanders?) If you are not wiling to make your life transparent, you do not deserve the public trust.

But please, Democrats: stop acting like this is a Monopoly game, and you can just pass go and collect $200. It is a Democracy. Defeat @realDonaldTrump in an election. Win independents. Talk about policy. Let Americans know you understand their struggles and aspirations.

Finally, do not repeat the lie that #MuellerReport, or Barr's decisions, must be fraudulent bec. the Trump family is not packing and leaving for Switzerland. Much was accomplished: cleaning out three dozen grifters, one (Manafort) who has harmed people around the globe, was good.

Because, in addition to an election to prepare for, this isn't over. #Mueller has opened the Pandora's box of the Trump Corporation, and now @SDNYnews takes its turn. There is about to be a whole new season. Stay tuned.

#NoImpeachment #VoteTheBastardOut. END THREAD

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