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1. So, why are heads over at MSNBC exploding?
2. I think the issue is not just general ideological opposition to Sanders or worries about electability but something quite specific: the end of the Ancien Regime Resistance.
3. The Ancien Regime Resistance was based on the idea that liberals and Never Trump conservatives could unite to end Trump and polarization. That has been MSNBC's project since 2016. That is in tatters now. More here: thenation.com/article/politi…
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1. Since Russian stuff is likely to keep coming up can we get some perspective on it? As best we know, Russian gov't invested in troll farms in 2016 & now - these had (to extent it can be measured) a negligible impact. The problem is Trump's response cnn.com/2020/02/23/pol…
2. Russia trying to ratfuck an election would be bad but relatively thing if it weren't for Trump 1) welcoming interference 2) dismissing it 3) refusing to condemn 4) pursuing business opportunities in Russia while running for office 5) spinning conspiracy theories about it
3. It's Trump's reaction to Russia story that has made it problem -- his refusal to simply say (as Sanders did) that Putin is a thug & should stop it. That remains the enduring mystery of all this. We don't need to impute super-villain powers to Putin to see that.
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Jeet Heer
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Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
& admit that the waters
Around you have grown
& accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’
Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

& keep your eyes wide

The chance won’t come again

& don’t speak too soon

For the wheel’s still in spin

& there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’

For the loser now will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin’
Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don’t stand in the doorway

Don’t block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’

It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
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1. What if the problem with Trump isn't just the crimes he's committing but the stuff that is perfectly legal -- in fact, well within presidential powers under the Constitution?
2. The pardon power has become Trumpized: turned into an instrument of purely partisan gratification to reward allies, donors and people you want to win over. Trump's hints about pardoning Roger Stone point where it is going.
3. Trump could, at the end of his presidency, give himself the same absolute pardon Gerald Ford gave to Nixon: complete clemency for everything he did as president.
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