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Does that seem fair?

Bret: Mine would be a little different: Kamala in 20/20 hindsight: She failed to be bold and sounded like a scold. In the meantime, I have a foreboding that Trump is going to win.

Gail: Stop! Stop! We havent even gotten to Iowa yet. Rudy Giuliani hasnt shown us the documentary hes been shooting on his version of the Ukraine scandal. (Hope it includes at least a couple of Martians.) Before the election, we may very well get to see the Trump taxes. Don Jr. and Eric may announce theyve sold the rights to a Trump hotel to a wealthy war criminal. Cheer up. Its the holiday season. Peace on earth and good will to everybody who isnt a member of the Trump administration. Or his personal lawyer.

Bret: I have a bad feeling that Trump is to political scandal what Typhoid Mary Mallon was to typhoid fever: He spreads it widely but is somehow immune to it himself.

Gail: Hey, I like that analogy.

Bret: Trump will be impeached and we will no doubt learn all sorts of scuzzy details regarding his family, his associates, their associates, and all of their associations. But at the end of the day, hell be acquitted in the Senate, possibly without a single Republican voting in favor of conviction, and maybe even with a Democrat or two voting for acquittal. And hell herald it as his most triumphant vindication yet.

In the meantime, unemployment is at 3.5 percent and may go even lower. And Democrats strike me as nearly as hostile to one another as they are to Trump. Thats no way to beat an incumbent who already enjoys a huge fund-raising advantage.

Gail: Well get over our hostilities when its down to Trump vs. X. Dont you think? I predict even your worse-case-scenario Elizabeth Warren would start looking good to you if shes the only alternative.

Bret: Not to me! And Im the kind of reasonable (well, semi-reasonable) party-switching voter the Democratic nominee, whoever it ends up being, is going to need to attract in order to beat Trump. Please, Democrats, dont make me wind up voting for Bill Weld just to salve my conscience and save my wallet. Nominate a moderate!

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