MSNBC: Claire McCaskill surprised that "Susan" voted against allowing documents

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17. You missed what happened. That panel have no illusions

about what the Republicans have become. But this morning, with the time for each Republican senator to leap over a giant cliff arrived, the panelists had hope that even just a few would balk. This afternoon, they'd lost that spark of hope.

This election isn't about MfA, it's about saving Medicare. Social Security. ACA. Saving the clean air and water laws and fighting climate change. Civil rights, including women's. Children in cages. Eleven million still to be deported, brown citizens caught up in it. And on and on.

This election is not about advancing Sanders' vision but about stopping, or falling to, a far larger and more advanced RW authoritarian revolution.

“If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” David Frum

Strong conservatives came to realize they could no longer win democratically and that it would only get worse. This is what's happening.