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I don't love it either, but I'm not sure how you tell a man that he should let his only surviving son rot in prison to respect norms, institutions, and the rule of law, when the country you devoted your life to serving just pretty comprehensively voted they don't give a shit about any of that.

I get it on a personal level, but as a legacy, this is a comprehensive fuck you to the future of the Dems. Wholly depressing at best.

You're right - so I guess I'm just stuck on "if we were going to stop playing by idiotic rules the other side hasn't followed in years, couldn't we have done it sooner and on more meaningful subjects?"

I mean, I think it's reasonable to ask him not to do this before the election in which the Democrats are running on "do not elect the openly corrupt oligarchs". Once America has said, "no, we love that actually..."