>>>>I think all the rioting and property damage (and the mainstream media trying to make excuses for it) are going to wind up hurting the Democratic cause in the general election. Quite simply, there are many people who are afraid to admit they will vote for Trump, but will quietly do so.
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>>Meanwhile The Atlantic's hit piece about Trump calling vets and casualties losers, is one "cry wolf" too many this close to the election. I doubt the MSM ever will regain prominence in the lead-up to an election-
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>The Atlantic - I'm a longtime subscriber - was never a mainstream news outlet - it's a monthly magazine first published in November of 1857 which billed itself as a "journal of literature, politics, science, and the arts," and that's what it is now.
>It was started by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes and some other Brahmins of that day.
>Most of them were abolitionists, which would make them hate objects of many residents of today's US.
>It's always had an east coast academic liberal/intellectual tilt - that appeals to me- and it has never apologized for that or pretended to be anything else.
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>Any serious editor knows that integrity is the magazine's stock in trade and would never compromise it.
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>Jeffrey Goldberg, the author - and the editor - knows that.
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>Will it have any impact?
>I don't really care.
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>So - we're all practical people - here's a practical exercise:
>We have to make a choice.
>The right choice gives us a new Ferrari.
>The incorrect choice condemns us to write DBase II programs at minimum wage, ad infinitum.
>Here's the choice:
>If your life depended on it... which person would you believe?:
>a. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the Atlantic.
>b. Donald Trump.

After reading the article, b.