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Good thread. I just want to add: "rising above", behaving decently, in no way precludes calling out bad behavior. It does require thinking hard before you criticize, because you might be wrong. It also requires not being needlessly venomous. BUT ...
2 ... being a decent person does not require keeping silent when you believe, after due reflection, that someone has done something genuinely wrong. Quite the opposite.

McConnell has subverted our political norms (cough, Merrick Garland, cough.)
3/ He has blocked election protection bills at a time when we are under attack. When Obama wanted to deliver a bipartisan warning about election interference in 2016, McConnell said he'd make it a partisan issue.

Criticizing this behavior is what decency requires.
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Besides the obvious (why should we have representation according to land mass?), I'm always puzzled by the idea that one side would be "totally ignored."

If we elected Presidents by popular vote, anywhere where voter turnout could be driven up would not be ignored.
2/ Are you in a red district with a lot of people who don't normally bother to vote? You will not be ignored!

Whereas today, all the safely red or blue states *are* "totally ignored." (Speaking as someone who lives in a reliably blue state.)
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1/ Bret Stephens, just stop it.

Here's what he took away from the debates.

Lots of us speak Spanish, or other languages. Lots of us had ancestors who got into this country when there were no rules, or were kidnapped and enslaved.
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1/ @joshtpm thinks we need to worry because (oversimplification) there's no one around to restrain Trump's worst impulses on Iran. I disagree.

Time to Get Very Worried About Trump and Iran (membership required) talkingpointsmemo.com/prime-beta/tim… via @TPM
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Trump is profoundly ignorant. He has only a very few thoughts, like "everyone is taking advantage of us", and "everything Obama did was bad."
3/ He also has a few go-to instincts, like "always hit first", and "stop the immigrants", and "you will respect my authoritah!!!".

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