The way the never-Trumpers are collapsing all the way to Romney I can't help but suspect domino sequence of blackmail leverage being applied
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I can understand random GOPers caving, but Romney's *rich*. He could exit public life, be a dissenter, 3rd partier etc. Blackmail I tell ya.
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Mormons tend not to have colorful private lives, which Dem oppo research would have used in 2012 if Romney was the exception
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. im thinking more the soft kind of blackmail that can come from the general backroom complicities of public life, not affairs etc
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if I could meaningfully speculate, I'd be blogging this 😄. I just assume everyone inside the old machine is in an inescapable web
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might also be a weird Schelling sorting. If one by one your buddies cave, eventually you fall in lines even if last
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that would mean his original stance was more about lending a voice to groupthink that has since dissolved, than principles
feels like you're not applying your own GvP ideas about Sociopaths in this case? (which all pols by definition are)
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