I‘d be shocked if he didn’t pardon pretty much everyone before he leaves office.

they don’t the powerful ones will be able to drag out cases for years if they’re even brought and get pardoned by the next GOP president. Blue states honestly need to be the focus for criminal accountability where there’s a legal basis for it

I don’t think we should pull licenses but aggressive antitrust action is justified on the merits and to rectify complicity with Trump’s attempt to turn the country into an autocracy. I’m more pessimistic about the chances of punishment for federal crimes. Everyone will get pardons and even if

I honestly wonder how much of the reaction was saltiness over Balko achieving mainstream success and recognition from liberals while not maintaining a “both sides” posture in the Trump era

As a former Reason reader who was familiar with Balko’s takedown of Hughes but not aware of this spat with TFC, they come out of that looking terrible. Extremely petty and thin-skinned. You guys could have been far more harsh than you were given how credulous they were towards central claims of TFOM

I’ll take that as a no

Can you give a single recent example of a candidate similar to Mamdani winning a statewide race in a state with similar baseline partisanship as Virginia by 20 points?

No worries, thanks for the welcome.

(Btw idk if you remember me but we were mutuals on Twitter for a bit before you left. You were one of my favorite follows. I finally got around to creating an account here. )

The collective mass amnesia around Trump’s first term is one of the most baffling phenomena I’ve ever seen. I will never understand how people just completely forgot what he was like or even who was President in 2020