what's the missing mood in people who are happy about impeachment
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What do you mean missing mood?
I’m happy about it, but don’t think it makes a difference to anything, so it’s entirely about adding an official question mark to the historical record of trump that he and his descendants can’t shake off
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AFAICT first use of "missing mood": econlib.org/archives/2016/
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Ah got it. The missing mood in that case is fatalist defiance.
“We can’t write this chapter of history, but we’d rather trash it than let you write a self-serving maga version of it”
This mood is missing. Actual mood is wishful hope of impact.


