This is Biden’s golden opportunity to de-program Trump sympathizers. My latest for @Independent...follow this thread or read here: independent.co.uk/voices/biden-c… The most defining — and rejuvenating — characteristic of the new commander-in-chief is his extraordinary empathy. That’s because the 46th president really does feel your and our collective pain as a country — no gimmicks or shrills attached.

I want to reflect on how societally we can reduce the disinformation-terrorist nexus after publishing today’s new pod w/@QanonAnonymous. (Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2hQidT….) The first and most important order of business to deradicalize was done by social media days ago. Moreover, law enforcement and politicians woke up. Trump/GOP and QAnon social rhetoric have, for years, posed an existential threat to civil society. In recent months, they converged in virtually identical criminal incitement and terrorism, which should be punished.

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She’s a Justice for now, but we can impeach Amy Coney Barrett if she tries to stop a fair election—and then add a 10th Justice.

Read @Independent fully: independent.co.uk/voices/amy-con…. If Barrett rules against the rights of voters in these days leading up to or during vote-counting — refusing to recuse herself from decisions that amount to a quid pro quo for Trump’s re-election — Dems need to impeach. (2)

At the debate next week, expect Chris Wallace to ask Biden why he should get to fill the Supreme Court seat. Biden should direct his answer to Trump... “The majority of the American people simply don’t support you. You didn’t win the popular vote last time, and you’re not going to win it, or the Electoral College, this time. The people deserve a court that represents them, not your extremism and division.”

1) It’s not court packing, Democrats. Do NOT accept the premise. It’s representative democracy. The court should look like the people. Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and the new nominee are the anti-democratic packing—packing that subverts the will of the people. 2) @SenSchumer needs to show some testicular fortitude. We all know it should be Duckworth or Murphy or Schatz as the Democratic leader. Starting today, the line is: If his illegitimate nominee is confirmed, @JoeBiden and D Senate will expand to the Court to represent the people.

Trump is not fleeting bizarreness but fundamentally unmaking America. “I alone can fix it” turned out to be he, with GOP collaborators, could kill it, dividing and literally plaguing us into our current misery. Read @thedailybeast my latest: thedailybeast.com/trumps-weird-s… Donald Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday night, a deranged Fidel Castro parody of maniacal gaslighting proportions, could not be mistaken for an American president’s.

AMUSING U.S. TO DEATH: Only in America could another celebrity be entertained as a (spoiler) presidential candidate during a pandemic ravaging our country, after a failed one has amused fellow citizens—and much of our democracy—to death. There is nothing more repulsive than @kanyewest’s publicity stunt/scam candidacy, while Americans are dying precisely because celebrity know-nothingism hijacked our public life and political process.

A thread on our @OpenMindTV episode w/@ProjectLincoln founder @jwgop.

In short, the coalition of the decent is battling a cult of treasonous bigots in 2020. We the Decent will win.

(You can watch here: thirteen.org/openmind/publi…) I ask John: @ProjectLincoln spots have lasered in on the immorality, negligence, and corruption of this administration, but do you fear that the American people are desensitized to the traffic of malfeasance?

Powerhouse @ProjectLincoln pod w/@madrid_mike dropping here...🔥🔥🔥preface to next week’s @OpenMindTV episode w/@jwgop. We discuss their critical initiative to end Trump’s dismemberment of the Union. open.spotify.com/episode/5snozu… Meanwhile, a few thoughts on @ProjectLincoln. We’re going to invite every one of this band of brothers and sisters fighting the plague of Trump and its hate-filled negligence.

In early Feb, I put forward a similar thesis in @USATODAY to @RachelBitecofer NYT op-ed (usatoday.com/story/opinion/…). Dynamics have shifted. The pandemic has united core Democratic constituencies—probably more than Republicans. While not a national case study, Wisconsin high turnout is evidence (election of non-POC woman to SC).

Look, the Chinese origin of the outbreak, the unaccountability, cover-up, and design of a virus that paralyzes society, should be scrutinized, as must Donald Trump’s complicit failure to protect Americans. I am frankly surprised no one has asked the conspiracist-in-chief if he believes this was a lab malfunction or engineered disaster, especially in light of the real Wuhan Virology facility.

There is some awful Dem groupthink that impeachment proceedings hurt the 2020 nominee. Not only is this the lawful and moral course but it will help—not hurt—their prospects. First off, an impeached (even if not convicted) Trump is less electable than a not impeached Trump. Remember this would be unprecedented—an impeached president up for re-election—and a strong argument for returning to normalcy (i.e. lawful order).

This is indeed "under the radar" as @joshgerstein reported. A curious development. Here goes an experimental tweet-ed /1 cc'ing my coauthor @liam_dalton13 and Russia/DOJ reporting czars: @NatashaBertrand, @woodruffbets,@StevenJHarper1, @KenDilanianNBC @benjaminwittes, @nytmike

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Josh's article points to a double standard in the treatment of McCabe contrasted with an unnamed FBI agent who was cleared w/o criminal referral, according to the IG's release today. /2