unconvincing things i heard a politician say in recent memory. any republican right mow who doesn t recognize that they are on the wrong side of momentum and that to the extent that donald trump is anything he s a giant albatross around the party s neck right now. nothing is guaranteed in politics but, man, there s no doubt whose party hand you would rather play? david frum? i think, lawrence, your reading of the intensity is prophetic, true, right. but there s more to the story. one risks underestimating how intense the struggle for power is going to be. and i think that there are people who woke up in the trump white house this morning and said, we have to get more serious about voter suppression. probably we can t win this thing in a fair fight but that doesn t mean we will be content to lose. one of the things that was background fact in the result in virginia was that felons regained the right to vote in
reading of the intensity is prophetic, true, right. but there s more to the story. one risks underestimating how intense the struggle for power is going to be. and i think that there are people who woke up in the trump white house this morning and said, we have to get more serious about voter suppression. probably we can t win this thing in a fair fight but that doesn t mean we will be content to lose. one of the things that was background fact in the result in virginia was that felons regained the right to vote in virginia. because people who had been pardoned from the crimes voting and the result was illegitimate. you will hear a lot about that. and what it is very hard i know this world well. one of the things it is deep conviction of the conservative world is they speak for the people. when they get evidence of that they don t, they don t respond by confessing it but