Matthew Yglesias: Anyone nominated by Dems in 2020 will end up the subject of criminal investigation

[highplainsdem]

initiated in the White House and approved by Barr.

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I hope Democrats understand that whoever they nominate in 2020 is going to end up as the subject of a criminal investigation initiated by the White House and approved by AG Barr and FBI Director Wray.

[Iliyah]

1. That will not go well with the American public . . .

They should trend softly and by the way, Barr won't be there . .

Just my opinion.

[uponit7771]

3. Republicans have prospered every time they've done this. I don't see dems analyzing public opinion

... correctly on these issue.

For instance, the republican impeachment process did help Clinton in the late 90s but it did ... NOT ... help democrats win anything.

Claiming the republicans won by less than they could have isn't a logical statement

[Iliyah]

6. You mean GOPers stealing and cheating?

Florida was stolen. With Kerry, Ohio was stolen. 2016 was stolen. Times up.

[uponit7771]

7. +1, and I'm tired of the whistling past the graveyard on the Russian hacking. No one in their

... right minds believe nothing was changed whatsoever even though the level of penetration of hacking was done to the machine level minimum with registration.

Large turnout doesn't defeat vote flipping or large amounts of provisional balloting

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. You mean like Benghazi, and Hillary's emails????? n/t

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[highplainsdem]

5. Exactly. But potentially worse now, with Barr so corrupt.

[anarch]

8. well, of course

And any Republicans at whatever level of government will do everything they can to obstruct the will of the voters (if their will doesn't align with the objectives of our corporate overlords) and continue to steamroll over democratic processes for as long as they are able to get away with it. That's all they've got left at this point; the desperate need to keep the systemic apparatus of de facto white nationalism in power, despite their dwindling significance as a percentage of the overall population.

[Me.]

9. Not If We Take Back The Senate

and keep the House

[highplainsdem]

10. But we can't take it back till after the 2020 election. Yglesias is talking about investigations

launched by this corrupt admin before the election.

[Me.]

11. Good Point

but, by the time they can get it together, the election will be over and, I might add, it would backfire

[Merlot]

12. That's exactly what they did to Hillary

Those investigations were detrimental to her campaign, and comey's statement on the investigations was a major blow.

It's exactly they playbook they will use with any candidate.

[moondust]

13. I think they figured she was being groomed

to become the first female President after the first minority President. First Lady, NY Senator, Secretary of State,...President. Benghazi and emails were fraudulent attempts to derail that train they saw coming down the tracks.