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 complexity of what Trump is charged with doing makes it very easy to obfuscate, and there's no mythical Walter Cronkite figure that an overlapping majority of Americans trusts to get the complicated details right and present a clear conclusion to the country
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I've been pessimistic about impeachment because there's nothing you can tell a low-information voter in ten words that will get them mad. It's game over at "Ukraine". Everyone knew the guy was a liar going in, which has the exasperating effect of politically insulating him now.
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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 chair1 reply 1 retweet 6 likesShow 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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There were a bunch of shows in this niche. Most famous was "America's Funniest Home Videos" hosted by what I hope was a very well paid Bob Saget
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