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The only take that matters: To win in 2020, Democrats need a nominee who agrees with all of my preferences on policy and rhetorical style.

Washington, DC
Joined July 2008

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  1. Everything comes back to exclusionary single family zoning

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    Many central‐city residents label their community “suburban” or “rural,” & many outlying residents label their community “urban.” People use “urban” label when they perceive local schools to be bad & their neighborhood to be unsafe

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  3. Pre-Trump take on this. The problem is congress and the president have independent sources of democratic legitimacy and there’s no clear way to resolve the standoff at the polls, encouraging an escalating series of hardball tactics.

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  4. Trump is a buffoon and this is an absurd idea, but the potential for this kind of constitutional crisis is baked into the cake of the flawed structure of our government.

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    M.I.A. - Paper Planes

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  7. Fresh WEEDS on the Great Steel Slat Shutdown of 2019 featuring and

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    Lou Dobbs guest Ed Rollins refers to sitting congresswoman as "the little girl"

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  9. I expect no less than three senate investigations into this theory

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  10. I’m a bit of an impeachment skeptic as I’m not really sure making Mike Pence president would solve very much but I do like novelty t-shirts.

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  12. I feel like this would be a popular shirt.

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  13. Presumably they will find two or three other Dem-leaning gerrymanders to strike down while leaving all GOP-tilted ones intact and not just stick to Maryland.

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  14. Smart of Warren to start formally campaigning, she excels in these kind of settings.

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  15. Week three of a shutdown is going to be a *lot* more disruptive than week one.

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  16. In Garrison’s idealized version of Trump he is buff and also has normal-looking skin. Real Trump is pudgy and his bronzer makes him look orange in a weird way.

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  17. It’s funny to me that conservatives have turned liberals saying “orange man bad” into this big satire point when Trump is both weirdly orange and also quite bad.

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  18. The rule is probably enforced imperfectly, however, so obviously we need to build an impenetrable physical barrier down the middle of the river and anyone who says otherwise supports open borders.

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  19. When I was a kid you could canoe on the St Croix River in Maine and just camp willy-nilly in campsites on either the US or Canadian bank. Now, though, the rule is that you need to stick to the US side to prevent Canadian canoe terrorism or something.

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  20. Try to hire a foreigner to come work at your company some day and you will swiftly see that the borders are not very open at all.

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