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The savaging of @MittRomney is about signaling to Republicans what they'll face if they get queasy about *future* revelations. We're now learning the NSA withheld crucial info about Ukraine -- info that will likely come out. I have more on that here: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@MittRomney A few points in this piece.

I urge you to watch the whole video Trump tweeted attacking Romney.

The message: Trump is a winner.

Romney lost -- to Obama.

The idea that the Obama presidency represented national humiliation figures heavily in Trumpism:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@MittRomney Another key point:

@RepAdamSchiff told @Maddow the NSA withheld crucial info from the House that was relevant to the Senate trial.

A former NSC official tells me this info was likely intercepted comms among Ukrainian officials about Trump's shakedown:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Greg Sargent
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Need a 2020 message? Trump wants to gut health care for millions -- while demanding billions for the useless, hateful wall he vowed to make Mexico pay for.

Trump's proposed hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts are a big liability. Act like it, Dems.

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Defending Medicaid from Trump can unify Dems. It can bridge the gap between the young, nonwhite and/or urban voters in the base and the suburban whites Ds hope to keep in their anti-Trump coalition through 2020.

Medicaid won for Ds in the suburbs in 2019:
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Hard to overstate how huge a betrayal Trump's efforts to gut Medicaid have been.

Protecting people's health care, and refusing to cut entitlements, were central to Trump's claim that his economic nationalism was a break from conventional GOP economics.

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Here's another Trump abuse of power that should alarm you. Trump will likely pervert classification authority to keep info buried that would undercut his campaign claims and inform voters about Russian interference. I talked to @ChrisMurphyCT about this:
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@ChrisMurphyCT “It is possible the president will be able to keep classified all the information the US gathers about Russian attempts to support his election. That’s the nightmare scenario.”

A bracing @ChrisMurphyCT interview about another Trumpian abuse of power:

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@ChrisMurphyCT This is the next frontier in Trump's lawlessness.

@ChrisMurphyCT has asked GAO to systematically review Trump's abuse of the classification process to bury unflattering information.

Trump has *already* abused this power. It will get worse. Here's how.

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Greg Sargent
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Pelosi ripped up a speech. Trump is ripping up our democracy.

* Unchecked lawlessness

* Treats opposition as illegitimate

* Puts himself above accountability

* Nonstop racism

* Endless lying

In this context, the "decorum" debate is meaningless. New:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Media chatter about Pelosi ripping up the speech and the ongoing erosion in decorum misses the point.

It's a category error. Such breaches of civility aren't the threat to democracy here.

The real threat to it is Trump's daily anti-democratic conduct.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Trump treats the opposition as fundamentally illegitimate in every way, and places himself beyond accountability entirely.

Those are far greater threats to the functioning of democracy than that posed by breaches in civility like tearing up a speech.

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