Rob Reiner on MSNBC talking about end of Democracy

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65. Trump exorting the crowd to "fight like hell" is, in and of itself, damning evidence to me

I'm fucking sick and tired of government officials being held to such low standards that you'd have to be inside Trump's head and know that he explicitly meant "Go violently assault Congress". When you're in that high a position of responsibility, you should damned well be accountable for the results of inflammatory rhetoric even if you're too damned stupid to know you're playing with fire.

Think we better prepare to beat them at polls, rather than spending time trying to keep them off ballot.

Again with the "rather than", as if we're talking about mutually exclusive actions again. That's a mental habit of false dichotomies you should break.

As for "without alienating the 5 to 10%", you seem to envision a situation where indicting, convicting, or excluding people like Trump or MTG from the ballot somehow drives away people who would vote for Democrats and/or energizes more people to vote for Republicans, rather than quite possibly invigorating Democratic voters and demoralizing Republican voters. The latter seems much more likely than the former to me.

If you think Democratic victory can and should depend entirely on GOTV, to the utter exclusion of any other efforts, you'd better be braced for crushing disappointment.