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The spectacularly absurd new process arguments from @SenatorCollins and @SenJoniErnst show just how weak the Trump defense has become.

Now that 71% support hearing from witnesses at Trump's trial, it's clear this epic gaslighting is failing.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@SenatorCollins @SenJoniErnst We should be gratified that 55% say House inquiry was fair and 71% want witnesses at trial.

Trump and his propagandists have relentlessly gaslit us with the idea that impeachment is an anti-Trump fringe/elite obsession.

The reality is quite different:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@SenatorCollins @SenJoniErnst Now that McConnell has rejected Schumer's call for witnesses, don't let them memory-hole this.

McConnell *already gave away the game.* He said the trial will be shaped in total accord with Trump's political needs.

Nothing else he and Rs say now matters:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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Great piece by @jayrosen_nyu lambasting the media for being so slow to acknowledge the right's full-throttle use of sheer *disinformation,* and media figures' inability (or unwillingness?) to fully adapt to the deep asymmetries it has produced:

pressthink.org/2019/12/the-ch…
@jayrosen_nyu As @jayrosen_nyu says, this has been clear for years, but certain media figures resolutely pretended not to understand it, because it created professional complications.

Here's my thread (including a book chapter!) from exactly a year ago on this topic:

@jayrosen_nyu One more point.

We *already know* how Trump and the right weaponize disinformation. We *already know* it involves bad-faith efforts to get the "MSM" to launder it for them.

They have *told us* how this works. There's no excuse for not adapting to it:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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Let's be clear on what Trump is really saying now.

He's claiming impeachment is illegitimate on the grounds that the majority that elected the House has no legitimate claim to political representation.

That's what his rally rant really meant.

New piece: wapo.st/38VLNwT
Crucial to Trump's mystique is the idea that his base has a kind of limitless potential, a depth and reach that's incalculably large.

It's almost a form of mysticism.

It's no accident that this idea is reappearing in the wake of his impeachment:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
At his rally, Trump said:

"It doesn't really feel like we're being impeached."

The dark and ugly truth is that Trump/GOP structural advantages are such that Trump really might get through this without "feeling" that way:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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Just an extraordinary achievement, impeaching Trump with almost no defections, in this disaster of a media environment, amid a deafening roar of GOP disinformation about Dem disarray.

I wanted a broader impeachment. But this secured near-total Dem unity. Pelosi pulled it off.
This is also a huge achievement by all those who organized for months to make this happen, including when Ds were too reluctant to take the plunge.

Those folks faced relentless ridicule from large swaths of the political spectrum, but they are the true battlers for rule of law.
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