Will Trump destroy opposition research or will it destroy him? I spoke to folks in the business of digging up dirt about how opposition research has changed in the age of Trump.
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This, from a researcher who worked on Obama, Clinton and Sanders' campaigns, sums it up well: 
And this, from Alan Huffman — who wrote the book on opposition research — on how November is a test for the truth and the usefulness of this kind of work:
Huffman's conclusion is that the pandemic will be a reckoning:
“Now, it feels like you're watching opposition research in real-time [...] When you've got people dying, the truth matters more than ever. I think something like that just becomes impossible to ignore.”
“Now, it feels like you're watching opposition research in real-time [...] When you've got people dying, the truth matters more than ever. I think something like that just becomes impossible to ignore.”
This is kinda relevant to the discussion.
