With the obvious Godwin's Law disclaimer, this is what happens when you have a lazy dictator who wants to keep his fingerprints off the most radical parts of his agenda. Ambitious underlings internalize his persona, and compete to outdo each other in pursuing inferred goals
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The fight to defeat Trump is a race against the clock before competent people rise in his shadow. We’ve gotten a bit complacent about that this year, because Trump and the circus surrounding him are so ineffective and unserious. But the serious people are coming.
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Failing to win the midterm elections decisively—crushingly—would not only validate all the buffoonery and tawdriness of the last year, but embolden a rising generation of skillful, morally unencumbered young jackals waiting in the wings of American politics.
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All dictators are to some degree ridiculous. Stalin fancied himself a master linguist. Romanian chemists had to add Elena Ceaușescu's name to their papers to get them published. Ridiculousness offers no protection against tyranny.
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There are a lot of things that can thwart Trump personally—impeachment, indictment, a McNugget willing to take one for the team. But the only thing that can check the rise of that capable next generation of authoritarians is a cataclysmic defeat at the polls this November.
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I've been raising money for political campaigns not because of a sudden fascination with Congressional politics, but because I think this is a desperate fight that we are not doing enough to win. Please join me, whether by giving money, or time, or both.https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
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as long as we can expend effort on practical things like elections, and not pointlessly tilting at the Twitter windmill, I'm 107.2% for it.
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anyways I sent another $500 just now, to match the $500 I sent a day or two ago. My advice to people these days is shut the fuck up and send money
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Me too - telling everybody to quit bellyaching and donate with me to beat every last GOP congress member in California. They are to be liquidated.
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‚Liquidated‘? Sound like that drone shit you guys pull off in Africa and Asia. Definitely not the right choice of words for a democratic process.
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we need their precious bodily fluids. California is a desert state
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Okay, okay! Wild West it is
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