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On reflection, @ewarren's performance was better than many have said. She solved the riddle of whether Trump is aberration or symptom. She attacked him as both: The guy who grabs women's privates is representative of elites gaming the system with impunity.
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@ewarren .@ewarren did a very good job telling a story about Trump, through Bloomberg, that connects the serial degradation of women to our corrupted political system.

The through line here is an indictment of elite corruption — of elites acting with impunity.

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@ewarren Warren is at her best when she attacks corruption and inequality, while staking out a posture that’s both progressive and pro-reformed-capitalism, both populist and technocratic. She showed Dems how to attack both Trump and our deeper maladies alike.

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1) Some Dems are in a panic about @BernieSanders's interview on "60 Minutes." He defended praise of Castro and brushed off questions about the cost of his agenda.

I talked to Sanders' pollster at length about all the electability concerns being raised:

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@BernieSanders 2) A few highlights from my interview with Sanders' pollster.

The Sanders campaign is more focused than you might expect on the idea that the election will be a referendum on Trump -- and that Trump will help unify the party, even w/ Sanders at the top:

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@BernieSanders 3) I asked Sanders' pollster whether the fact that the 2018 win was driven by a large shift in suburban and college educated white voters weighs on their thinking.

Does the campaign see the need to hold those gains? Interesting answers:

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Now that Trump's purge is getting worse, we need to be clear: This isn't really "revenge against the Deep State." It's an active effort to remove obstacles to Trump's continuing degradation of the rule of law for thoroughly corrupt purposes. New piece:
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When Trump demands prosecutions of enemies and rages at DOJ, the media treats this as if Trump *really thinks* the Deep State is out to get him.

That's a serious error. He's actually removing obstacles to *his own* ongoing corruption. And it's working:

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When Trump ousted Alexander Vindman for standing in the way of his Ukraine shakedown, Donald Trump Jr. was explicit:

Others who try this deserve the same fate.

The purges are meant to remove those who defend rule of law against Trump’s corruption of it.

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Greg Sargent
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Let's not mince words. Trump is abetting an attack on our country. The news that he raged over the intel on Russia's new electoral sabotage is already shrouded in euphemism, as if "partisanship" is hampering our response. That's nonsense. New piece:
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It's being argued that House Repubs legitimately don't think the intel shows Russia wants to *help Trump.*

Unlikely. But even if this were possible, it's not exonerating!

This is still an attack on our democracy. And Trump views it as helpful to him.

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In a sense, Trump wants his intelligence agencies to function as an army of Roger Stones. Rather than alerting Congress about outside interference in our election, Trump wants them to keep it under wraps, just as Stone tried to cover it all up in 2016.

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