The bottom-line allegation in the whistleblower complaint is that Trump sought to "solicit interference from a foreign country" for electoral gain, which was the core animating theme of Russiagate. This is a continuation of Russiagate by another name
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Replying to @mtracey
right except this time it happened. Like, if Trump literally called Putin and asked him to mess with Clinton, you’d agree that would be wrong, right?
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Replying to @ryangrim
The political themes introduced by Russiagate -- "soliciting foreign assistance," aka "collusion" -- provided the narrative underpinnings for why the Ukraine developments have been instantly deemed impeachment-worthy
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Replying to @mtracey
If you read Karl Marx’s letters, half of it is gossiping about which minister is in the pay of the czar or some other foreign king (but often the czar). Comey didn’t invent the idea, but yeah, Russiagate elevated. But this Ukraine stuff is so obviously wrong anyway.
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Replying to @ryangrim
I agree that Russiagate elevated a lot of fallacies, hysteria, and other bad political outcomes, so if the premises underlying Russiagate are now going to be used to elevate this newest flareup, maintaining a critical distance seems more than justified.
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Replying to @mtracey
Critical distances should always be maintained, for sure.
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Would be nice if the rest of the media took heed.
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Here's Grim maintaining critical distancehttps://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1176313285894987776?s=20 …
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