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    Yes. We also need swing voters like: white, professional suburbanites who voted for Trump because they thought the "grownups" would…
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    • Norm Ornstein has a good thread on Twitter about health care, saying the candidates should have said, "Trump and the…
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    • I'm grateful to Martin for his persistence in, and skill at clarifying what we're all up against. Here are a…
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    • Alternately, we could learn from Trump the value of choosing a few issues (e.g., protecting Social Security & Medicare, infrastructure…
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    • And Obama is a good model---for candidates, officeholders, and for the rest of us---for how to handle health care as…
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    • Thanks for your comment, but I kinda feel like we had this exact discussion a decade ago with the ACA.…
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    • "Not doing the changes this country needs – structure/radical change – is more risky." Okay. Then, in your view, what's…
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    • "Obama mostly qualified because he didn’t have to cast a vote for or against the Iraq War, and before that…
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    • And this is how political change happens. No permanent enemies, no permanent allies, just permanent interests. It's possible, even desirable,…
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    • Perhaps even more interesting than the 12-15 Democrats in Congress who've come out in favor of an impeachment inquiry since…
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    • Sure! And there are a hundred (or more!) other good ideas like that out there, and that will end up…
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    • And in the face of conservative opposition FDR compromised on pretty much every accomplishment liberals now celebrate him for. Social…
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    • No, because we'd almost certainly be wrong. Your point about FDR is probably more relevant. There's an old story about…
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    • Thanks for your kind words. One hopeful example from history: after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Democrats (and…
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    • Just to be clear, I'm not using the Senate as "an excuse". I'm just dealing with the world as it…
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    • We live in a country that elected Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson twice each (just to pick three…
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    • Thanks for your response. I guess I tend to look at the political world this way: you're either moving forward…
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    • Thanks for your comment, but given what we know about the major Democratic candidates and their policy preferences, any one…
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    • Thanks for your comment, but things are probably worse than you think they are. Even if your (or my, or…
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    • Agreed on the question mark. Writing on the morning of the 26th: since Mueller testified at least five Democratic members…
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