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Jordan Orlando's avatar

This is (forgive my geekishness) the "Ash Move": in "Alien," when the infant creature bursts from John Hurt's chest and a few of the crew pick up weapons, Ash — the "science officer" who's actually a company plant working to preserve the specimen — shouts "Don't touch it! Don't touch it!" and the crew instinctively withdraw at the sound of his authoritative voice, so the tiny creature runs away and soon they're all dead except for a single survivor.

Every time MAGA is vulnerable or Trump is vulnerable, we're told not to attack. Nancy "Impeachment is off the table" Pelosi says "We want a strong Republican party" or "this is a distraction." Our MAGA relatives must never be made to feel shame or remorse; we must protect their feelings by not insulting them. Trump should not be crudely mocked on "South Park" because we "shouldn't lower the discourse to their level." The Epstein scandal really means that Democrats should "focus on kitchen table issues."

They're not actually androids put there by "the company" to protect the villains, but they might as well be.

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Cynthia Phillips's avatar

The logic of Democrats about impeachment only makes sense in Washington. "If the public views impeachment as overturning the election, then we cannot do it." Or, here's a thought, Democrats. Be leaders in the common understanding of every day people. If the public has a misguided or incomplete understanding of impeachment, then undertake to change the public's mind. That would be leadership. Democrats' failure to engage based on some sort of procedural checkmate mindset, perhaps derived from too many years, in Washington is killing this country.

This weird aversion Democrats have to mixing it up in the political arena by forcefully and righteously making a case that the American people will hear and understand is probably the main reason the Party has lower approval ratings than Donald Trump. People respect the man in the arena because of his integrity and courage. He gets in there and throws some punches even if he is overmatched.

Democrats look like they are coming to the voters and saying, no we can't step into the arena because Republicans will hit us. Yes, Democrats they will. But y'all can and should hit back.

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