I would say the primary culprit of expansion of unchecked executive power has been the courts, which have been increasingly deferential to the executive branch on key civil liberties issues, especially in the wake of 9/11. That trend has continued and mostly worsened under Trump, particularly with the Supreme Court’s…

oh wow, gloating, the key part of coalition building

Gotta say, I’m interested in the tortured chain of logic that is leading you to think I was saying “the global pandemic was a real stroke of luck for us.”

The thing is, if Trump were just a little less incompetent, had a little more self-control, and were able to even feign a hint of normal human empathy, we’d already be well on our way to an authoritarian dictatorship. That there is even a reasonable chance that Trump will be booted out of office after just four years…

I’m not sure how it highlights that.  Probably both the DNC and AOC took it for granted that news outlets that put a tremendous amount of resources into covering this event every four years and explaining it to their readers and viewers would provide adequate context for this simple thing that happens every time there…

You probably thought that call was about you. 

No it’s not illegal to sell m-rated games to Kino's. In fact, such a prohibition is unconstitutional. https://www.cnbc.com/id/43548273. Same with R-rated movies. https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2015/05/are-movie-ratings-legally-enforceable.html. 

That is not an easy lawsuit, that’s an almost sure loser. There is no legal restriction on selling games to minors. Any such restriction would almost certainly not pass constitutional muster (in fact, I believe the Supreme weighed in on this a while ago, possibly in a Scalia opinion( and any lawsuit that would seek to…

And actually, people, or Democrats at least, don’t seem to want to hear much from John Kasich.

Okay great.  I’m not sure what relevance that rather obvious observation has to this article or my comment.

What is your point?

Given how many Democrats seem interested in rehabilitating George W. Bush, it’s not really surprising that Bill keeps getting invites to speak at prominent events (where we then hope he doesn’t put his foot in his mouth like he did at John Lewis’s funeral). But man, do I wish he would go away forever (I say as someone…

She was a sixteen year old victim of sexual abuse performing in pornography. It is possible to recognize that, due to her successfully obtaining a legitimate ID, the people involved in allowing her to perform were acting in good faith without smearing her as some vicious scammer. Again, she was sixteen. It is a…

The thing is, we don’t know that 53% is inaccurate.  And the reason it keeps getting repeated is because it was the first number that came out shortly after the election.

But it’s equally certain she wanted that a the time. 

If an adult, parental figure in someone’s life had been giving them alcohol since they were 12 or 13, and they developed a dependence on it and got a fake ID when they were 16 and started going around to neighborhood bars that served them thanks to the fake ID, I don’t think we’d have any trouble seeing that person as…

She was a sixteen year old victim of sexual abuse performing in pornography. It is possible to recognize that, due to her successfully obtaining a legitimate ID, the people involved in allowing her to perform were acting in good faith without smearing her as some vicious scammer. Again, she was sixteen. It is a…

???

53% isn’t “the wrong number.” Arguably, the 47% Pew number is based on a more robust sampling methodology (I would agree), but even that is subject to error. The margin of error on the entire Pew sample is 3%, the margin of error is probably higher, probably around 4.5%-5.5%.  And Pew still found that more white women…

they meant semi-weekly