This reminds me of the O.J. trial. There's a subculture of people who are following every twist and turn in a gripping story, and from the outside it is completely incomprehensible. The weirdest thing in retrospect about O.J. was that it still took place in a shared media world.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1218350262038999041 …
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The good news is there's lots of ways to try to win in November that don't pull us in to this sucker's game. We'll try some! But it's hard to watch a constant high level of lying go unpunished. It wears people down
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You can try the
@lawfareblog approach, which is to blow the whistle at every infraction and hope that that turns a WWF wrestling match back into proper collegiate wrestling, where there are rules. But you are likely to just get co-opted into the drama or hit by a folding chairShow this thread -
You can simply cover it as entertaining political combat, or pretend it's not happening, which is what most of the press now does.
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Anyways, all that to say I'm sorry if in the past on this site I've bummed people out who genuinely care about impeachment and the moral case for it. I'm not cynical, but I do get exasperated too, and that can in turn exasperate others.
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(For those too young to remember, the O.J. trial was exactly like a modern internet drama except you couldn't *talk* about it anywhere, unless you found real people! Your spicy hot take existed, but had no outlet. And funny cat videos were only on once a week, with a laugh track)
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How about “Trump pressured a foreign government to influence an American election” for ten words that (ought to) make a voter mad?
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