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I have been reading Ed Kilgore since he was blogging for the Washington Monthly. With amazing consistency, Ed is sensible, sober, well-reasoned, stubborn (gracefully) and deeply moral. So when someone I respect as much as Ed calls on us to consider the moral consequences of a second Trump term, as
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Ian Millhiser says it doesn’t give us a way to get rid of bad presidents. Impeachment? No. He calls that “a paper tiger”: There should be a way to remove a criminal president from office, but the impeachment power ain’t it. The power of impeachment is a paper
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If nothing matters but power, Trump can do no wrong.
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Below is the Times’ Maggie Haberman. She tweeted this yesterday. She’s defending an earlier tweet (see the screenshot) in which she agreed with her Times colleague Adam Goldman that yesterday’s Mueller hearing didn’t reveal anything new and therefore had very little worth paying attention to. Fact: Mueller
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They are driving me crazy. Maybe it’s a short drive. The Post’s Aaron Blake https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/1154046500126593024?s=20 The Times’ Glenn Thrush https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/1154046909092265984?s=20 The Times’ Trip Gabriel, Maggie Haberman and Adam Goldman https://twitter.com/johnastoehr/status/
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The case against Donald Trump won't fade after he testifies.
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Everyone is talking about Robert Mueller’s testimony tomorrow. Here are few thoughts. 1. Mueller is going to tell us what he’s already told us. 2. It’s important for people to see that on TV. 3. GOP says if Mueller doesn’t have anything new, Trump’s in
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Never-Trumpers are paving the way for a revival of liberalism.
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Tim Wise wrote this Twitter thread over the weekend. It influenced today’s edition of the Editorial Board. He related his experience campaigning against David Duke’s bid for Louisiana governor. He said the key was treating Duke as a threat to democracy, not as anything close to a normal
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We need a liberal, moral and anti-racist vision of nationality.
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My theory is that children are the final frontier of human rights, and I’m thinking this because so many Americans don’t seem to give a good goddamn about what’s happening to children at the border or about the former child victims now seeking justice as Jeffrey Epstein’
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Charges of hypocrisy only apply to people with values.