Promising a revolution thatโs simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasnโt happened.
Kevin Drum[David] Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about [Donald] Trump's idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn't engage.
Kevin DrumItโs certainly true that itโs easier to be patient about change when youโre not personally suffering...
Kevin DrumWhy aren't Democrats voting against President [Donald] Trump's cabinet nominees en masse? Is it because they're just a bunch soft-headed Beltway lifers who don't understand that the base is pissed and wants them to fight fight fight?
Kevin DrumThe folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but theyโre still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. Thatโs bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything.
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