This entire game--the entire series, the entire season--came down to a discrete series of dingers, lucky catches, hits that fell a few feet short ... just an absolutely wild & random series of contingencies. I can honestly think of about a dozen specific moments that could have gone the other way.

vance answers the question of what if you made a moblin the vice president

On 1/13/21 a majority of the house voted that Trump had incited insurrection and on 2/13/21 a majority of the senate voted that Trump had incited insurrection.

Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇

He keeps doing this same victory tour. In the "person man woman camera TV" interview on Fox News in 2020, he gave details that made it clear he'd taken the MOCA.

Every single person who thinks they can manage an interview with Chotiner is one of those 12% of dudes who think they can win a point off of Serena Williams

one of the most deeply infuriating aspects of american politics is close to half of americans would love if 20% of the country starved to death

Theory one: Trump is going nuts/senile
Theory two: The difference between resisting briefing from qualified professionals and not even having qualified professionals around really makes a difference - Trump's information environment is pure garbage now.

I'm all in on theory two.