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You all realize that from now on Trumpists are going to add harassment, both sadly-real and madeup-and-paid-for, to their bag of dirty tricks to bring down every progressive candidate they find dangerous, in 2018 and 2020, right?

It will not be hard to find women they could pay a small (by political-campaign standards but life-changing for the rest of us) amount who would bring 10-years-ago harassment charges, dismissed under scrutiny, of course, but nicely accomplishing the goal of creating ambiguity, shifting narrative and creating doubts about any candidate they don’t like.

How the Democrats Are Failing the Resistance

“This is not a good omen. If Gillespie wins, or the result is close, it means the Trump-transformed GOP is electorally viable in every swing district in 2018. That it could win in the state where actual white supremacists marched this past summer and when the president is 20 points underwater is a sobering reminder of the actual state of play in our politics. I can only hope it’s a wake-up call to the Dems. In 2017, they are either useless or actively counterproductive in the struggle to resist right-authoritarianism. They have learned nothing from 2016. Their intelligentsia seems determined to ensure that no midwestern whites ever vote for the party again. Their public faces are still Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi. They still believe that something other than electoral politics — the courts, the press, the special counsel — will propel them back to power. They can’t seem to grasp the nettle of left-populism. And they remain obsessed with a Russia scandal that most swing voters don’t give a damn about.

They think they are “woke.” They are, in fact, in a political coma.”

How the Democrats Are Failing the Resistance