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Very important point by @chrislhayes - Democrats face a 2020 environment in which the things Mueller found are both past and present. Not only does Russia have an interest in meddling again to help Trump, the Saudis, N. Korea, China etc do too. And AG Barr has signaled his OK.
If Dems impeach, McConnell will surely help Trump in the Senate trial as will Lindsey Graham and the other Rs, 20 of whom are up for re-election. Exoneration, if not aggressively turned against Republicans by Dems, could demoralize the Dem base and energize Trumpists.
And yet, not impeaching wouldn't stop part one (foreign help subverting the election for Trump) from happening. A free and fair election on healthcare and new roads is far from guaranteed. And Trump's base is already energized and utterly devoted. Not impeaching changes nothing.
Not impeaching also emboldens Trump to go full autocrat. It renders impeachment a dead letter going forward and clears the way for what amounts to an American monarchy - an unrestrainable, unindictable unitary executive - just as Barr wants. It weakens congress vs any POTUS.
And it basically ratifies what Trump has done. So that's the Democrats' choice: impeach, defend the constitution & put that eternal stain on Trump and risk the politics, or don't impeach and roll the dice on endless hearings (maybe FBIers on trial?) & beating a normalized Trump
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One of the hallmarks of this era is that the strongest and most compelling condemnations of Trumpism are often coming from women & POC (Liz Warren, Kamala Harris and Julian Castro for example) plus the handful of current (Justin Amash) and former Republicans willing to speak up.
Republicans for the Rule of Law is another example, which we will be discussing on today's show. thehill.com/homenews/house…
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Joy Reid
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Apologies for Twittersplaining, but this comes up enough that I think it bears mentioning: "gerrymandering" does not mean "rigging a statewide election." It means (re)drawing the boundaries of state and federal LEGISLATIVE districts to give your party more state & DC seats.
Gerrymandering will not impact whether Trump wins re-election, since all but two states allocate Electoral College votes via winner-take-all, not by districts. It will impact congressional and state legislative seats, though. Great explainer here: washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
I guess you could call the Electoral College "gerrymandering" based on how state lines were drawn, but what voters fear will happen in 2020 vis-a-vis unfairness or cheating isn't gerrymandering. Twittersplain complete!
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Joy Reid
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Important point. Democrats consistently practice the politics of caution, seeking the path of least resistance, when the last two presidential elections where they won both the popular vote and the EC were won by the high risk black candidate who ignited the base & new voters.
The history of presidential elections is that passion tends to win them, not caution. Dole, Romney, Dukakis, Gore, Mondale, Kerry... all were safe, inoffensive choices meant to soothe the electorate with a promised return to "normalcy." HRC touted Trump's rank abnormality.
Maybe the Dems are right that the utter Trump exhaustion people feel will cause them to choose the "cautious normal" over another turn at "big change" (or FTM, the national convulsion of impeachment). They absolutely could be right. But it seems like quite a roll of the dice.
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