They again confirm that only one of the candidates is a lawless extremist. And it isn't Joe Biden.
But Barr and Trump are operating from a genuine worldview. I tried to engage it here:
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That's disgusting: Officials are balancing competing imperatives. But the Barr/Trump worldview doesn't permit for this:
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By painting the leftist enemy as an existential threat, they lay the groundwork to justify extraordinary and extralegal means of their own to crush that enemy:
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In Barr's case, the crisis is largely invented to justify Trump's lawlessness.
Relying on @lkatfield and @ProfessorShaw:
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