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I'm becoming increasingly convinced that this is an in-house coup. Remember, the Democrats have a very undemocratic nominating process. It doesn't really matter what their voters want. The superdelegates will pick the nominee. Bossism 101. Now, Trump's strength is that, right or wrong, he is perceived as anti-Establishment, as the guy standing up to drain the Swamp. How does a failing incumbent president get in on some of that? Now that there's been a movement to dump Biden, he can run against the Democrat Establishment (of which he is a longtime key member.) He can argue that the Establishment hates...

Imagine this: It’s Jan. 30, 2007. Following President Bush’s State of the Union Address, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) deliver their responses. In contrast to the President’s call for making his tax cuts permanent, the two Democratic powerhouses say they intend to repeal them all. In addition, they call for a joint congressional committee to investigate alleged “unconstitutional” actions by the National Security Agency and vow to re-examine the administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina and 9/11. Filibusters will not be an issue, Reid pledges, because with the Democrats’ controlling the Senate they will...