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11. Anyway, America’s backsliding can’t be solved with policy, as the crisis we face isn’t the result of “big dislocations, like a depression with mass unemployment and the legacy of losing a major war,” as Professor Grossman put it.

12. If it could be solved with policy, it would be solved, as Joe Biden flipped four decades of economic consensus on their head. No, the backsliding is the result of a lack of good information. And guts.

13. So my beef with the Democrats isn’t a matter of ideology. (It’s nothing like what you will find on “Chapo Trap House.”) My beef is a matter of temperament. At issue isn’t “purity,” as Moulton said. It’s courage.

14. Either the Democrats meant it when they said Trump is a menace to democracy and the rule of law – or they didn’t. Either they meant it when they said that now’s the time for choosing – or they didn’t. Honestly, I’m not sure they meant it.

15. In response to Trump’s renewed threat to prosecute members of the Congress who investigated his attempted paramilitary takeover of the US government, Adam Schiff, who sat on the panel, and who is now California’s junior senator, said:

16. What *is* this? Politics or kindergarten?

17. Schiff went on: “Nor do I think a pardon is necessary for members of the January 6 committee. We are proud of the work we did … It was a fundamental oversight obligation to investigate the first attempt to interfere with a peaceful transfer of power in our history.”

18. Look, I told you. I have defended the Democrats in various ways for years, especially when they stood up for democracy, the Constitution and the rule of law after Trump’s attempt to overthrow the will of the people. But this is so weak, I can’t defend it. No one can.

19. Here’s what Schiff could have said:

20. Schiff could have said any of these things without losing support back home. Instead, we got The Language Police or The Disappointed Schoolmarm, take your pick, who not only failed to show resolve but also validated the allegation that the Democrats are a bunch of pricks.

21. Jesus God, J6 was not an "attempt to interfere with a peaceful transfer of power.” It was a *crime*. It was *treason*. But Schiff couched that fact in abstract multisyllabic words, as if euphemism and understatement were the appropriate mode of presidential discourse.

22. Worse was what the Senate minority leader said afterward. “He did a great job,” Chuck Schumer said, referring to Adam Schiff’s performance on the J6 committee. “And it will stand for itself.” No, it won’t.

23. With the rightwing media apparatus, Donald Trump erased facts. With a new corrupt administration, he’ll try erasing history. And he will succeed if the Democratic Party does not speak for it and fight.

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