I haven't decided who I'm voting for in 2020 & won't until after the primaries, but it won't be any of the 24 Democrats. Calls like this are a 1-way street. Liberal/progressive pundits are never asked to do the same. Democratic candidates are never asked to offer us anything.https://twitter.com/julianzelizer/status/1140222278547980288 …
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The wrongest take on Trump is that he represents an existential threat to our system by overreaching the powers & norms of his office. The greatest existential threat is what the reaction to Trump will empower progressives to do to our system.
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The second greatest threat posed by Trump - the one that gives me most pause about supporting his re-election - is that his weakness in commanding the loyalty & obedience that the executive branch normally gives a president could prove ruinous in an international crisis.
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Contrary to the popular narrative, Trump has often not followed through on his worst instincts thanks to his staff & allies (eg, Don McGahn). That has happened because of residual conservative values: Republicans still want rule-of-law judges, for example.
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By contrast, an empowered progressive successor would face calls from his or her own side's intellectual class to do the opposite: bulldoze the existing norms & institutions conservatives value. Where Trump has swum against the tide, a Democrat will have the tide at his/her back.
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There are no good answers for conservatives right now. This Administration deserves re-election. This president does not. His opponent will be bad, & may well be bluntly hostile to the American system's continuance. Some have cast their lot with Trump, some never will. I'll wait.
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For a guy who praised the USSR, Castro in Cuba, and Chavez in Venezuela, that is no small thing. And if only that was the only consequence.
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Biden too? Give me a break. In no way could a Biden election be construed in that way.
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Then why are you afraid to take on Trump in your own party? These pollsters telling Trump he’s losing big are correct. We on the Dem side will take beating him and the GOP as a mandate for change. Why shouldn’t we?
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People are taking on Trump in the GOP, but they are few and far between, because Trump is the best President the base has seen in their entire lives. Trump is not extreme, his political opposition is extreme.
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