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Richard Baris
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Today's economic data don't justify the selloff, which actually started during Pelosi's interview with Atlantic before the quasi impeachment announcement.

The markets shrugged it off after the transcript was released. Then, the ISM yesterday and loss of reason sent it down.
The miss for ADP was just 5k. Mortgage applications were very strong. Crude talking points are important but grossly exaggerated.

Markets don't like political instability. The U.S. is currently unhinged and politically unstable.
This also happens to be the most volatile month for markets out of the entire year.
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Richard Baris
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Senate Republicans can and will do what they'd like. But let me be as clear as I can about this.

No Republican outside of D.C. is looking to @MittRomney for "leadership" on this. They're looking for their party to defend their President.

If they do not, they will be decimated.
@MittRomney There is no going to back to a time when @MittRomney was the best the Republican Party could put up for President and base voters gave a damn what Jonah Goldberg or Bill Kristol thought.

You're deluding yourselves if you believe that.

The party will be destroyed.
@MittRomney I'd STRONGLY suggest you get out of your own head and that cesspool of a town, and talk to real Americans and real Republicans.

They're absolutely furious right now.

And to the extent they care what Mitt Romney thinks?

Trick question. They don't.
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Richard Baris
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I reject the entire premise.

There's no such thing as "Reagan-Bush Conservatism". There's just Reagan Conservatism.

Neither H.W. Bush nor G.W. Bush were Reagan Conservatives. Many who now invoke the name Ronald Reagan opposed him, and only later rode his coattails for careers.
Ronald Reagan nominated George H.W. Bush not because he agreed with him philosophically, but because he was trying to unify and beef up his FP bona fides.

Reagan opposed and feared unelected bureaucrats and shadowy powerful government agencies.

H.W. Bush led one.
In fact, the Bush Wing of the Republican Party later came up with "Compassionate Conservatism" because they sought to distance themselves from the rugged individualism espoused by Reagan Conservatism, which they always believed to be cruel and unelectable.
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Richard Baris
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I'd hate to agree because I don't like when people flatly say polls are "fake," as those of you who know me personally, know full-well.

But we see data indicating his approval rating rising, driven by moderate indy tickup and strong base solidification.
It would make zero sense to have near uniform base approval and, a third (Yes, A THIRD), of those same people still believing he should be impeached/removed.

It's nonsensical and GOP voters aren't persuaded by narrative like Dems are. Not meant as a dig. It's just the truth.
Even 20%. It's just not believable with an approval rating that high.
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I'm old enough to remember Peter unfollowing people en masse for not jumping onto his "unite with Bernie or else" screed. Which was, *checks notes,* five weeks ago, when Bernie was the front runner.
So unity is apparently....off the table...Huh.
Here's that piece.
It's the one that tells Hillary voters they are irrelevant because something something unite around Bernie or else, and then a week later Biden announced, Peter started trashing Pelosi and now he's after Nadler. LOL. Okay.
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It's odd to write a piece you furiously defend and then literally five weeks later you gut it to go after one of the people leading on #impeachment.
I admit, I don't get it. Six weeks ago Peter and I talked and he said getting rid of Trump was his goal. This ain't that.
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