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"With Hawley -- follow the money. Missouri is the dark money capital of the US. Hawley took in an enormous amount of NRA money right when the NRA was taking in Russian mafia money. He also has unnamed mega-donors. Find out who they are." -- @gaslitnation
"Hawley has no moral core. There's no 'there' there. He's a malleable actor and that's what makes him so dangerous -- he can be pushed in whatever direction his donors want him to go. He's full of greed and contempt for this country." -- @gaslitnation
"Now that we don't have Trump creating a new crisis every hour, we have time to research the hard questions like 'Who funds the GOP sedition Senators?' And 'Who paid off Brett Kavanaugh's massive debt?'"
"This applies to the Dems too -- vet them all! Look at shady donors like Len Blavatnik who fund both sides. Vet the elderly reps too -- don't assume you know everything. Campaign financing changed over the decades and they changed too." -- @gaslitnation
More on Josh Hawley from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT -- and on Missouri as the bellwether of American decline: https://t.co/IpjLWPjBH8
"Hawley has no moral core. There's no 'there' there. He's a malleable actor and that's what makes him so dangerous -- he can be pushed in whatever direction his donors want him to go. He's full of greed and contempt for this country." -- @gaslitnation
"Now that we don't have Trump creating a new crisis every hour, we have time to research the hard questions like 'Who funds the GOP sedition Senators?' And 'Who paid off Brett Kavanaugh's massive debt?'"
"This applies to the Dems too -- vet them all! Look at shady donors like Len Blavatnik who fund both sides. Vet the elderly reps too -- don't assume you know everything. Campaign financing changed over the decades and they changed too." -- @gaslitnation
More on Josh Hawley from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT -- and on Missouri as the bellwether of American decline: https://t.co/IpjLWPjBH8
Interesting thread but unfortunately I disagree. We've had those inflection points: Charlottesville, Helsinki, Comey firing. He's always been very unpopular. Little changed.
Public opinion matters less when leverage -- like fair + free elections -- disappears. Protect leverage.
I have said since 2016 that Trump is most likely to lose power through legal means -- indictments for his crimes -- not by change in public opinion. He will not concede even if he loses and he will rewrite laws to protect himself. That's why he always was an extraordinary danger.
That's why it was crucial for Mueller and Comey before him to act early, because Trump consolidates power like a typical kleptocrat. But they didn't.
Best move now is to help Dems take Congress so that investigations can be carried out -- and investigators be protected by law.
Even in this best-case scenario of Dems winning and investigations continuing, there might be no justice, because Trump has now packed courts and purged agencies.
But knowledge is power. The public has the right to know what Trump & co have done. So keep pushing anyway.
Public opinion matters less when leverage -- like fair + free elections -- disappears. Protect leverage.
There will be something so stupid and lame and weak that people realize who Trump really is. Sure, he'll keep his 20% or whatever base, but he'll lose others.
— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) October 21, 2018
But I know I might be wrong. The challenge with predicting the future is that it hasn't happened yet.
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I have said since 2016 that Trump is most likely to lose power through legal means -- indictments for his crimes -- not by change in public opinion. He will not concede even if he loses and he will rewrite laws to protect himself. That's why he always was an extraordinary danger.
That's why it was crucial for Mueller and Comey before him to act early, because Trump consolidates power like a typical kleptocrat. But they didn't.
Best move now is to help Dems take Congress so that investigations can be carried out -- and investigators be protected by law.
Even in this best-case scenario of Dems winning and investigations continuing, there might be no justice, because Trump has now packed courts and purged agencies.
But knowledge is power. The public has the right to know what Trump & co have done. So keep pushing anyway.
