Let’s not forget:
1) Voter suppression, including: purging of voter rolls; closing of polling places especially in areas likely to vote Democratic, resistance to voting by mail because of feigned worries about voter fraud.
2) Russian and domestic disinformation campaigns, especially on social media, about which neither the Impeached President’s administration nor the Republicans in Congress have done anything to stop (“Moscow Mitch” McConnell deserves the onus for an important part of that).

Jeff, it really does seem as if all too many U. S. voters are addled. They are either angry about the right things but blame the wrong people or system, or they are angry about the wrong things such as an end to discrimination against groups that have been historically discriminated against and a push for an even closer approximation to equal justice under the law.

I have been at a loss for some time by the perception seen in polls and elections among a large segment of the U. S. population that Republicans are better at handling the economy than Democrats are. Look at how many Republican presidents have had second term recessions, including major recessions. Look at their ballooning of the national debt. Feeding the already rich with ever more money is not good for most Americans’ economies.

I didn’t read the article; it throws up a “turn off your ad blocker” screen whether my ad blocker is off or on.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-has-91-percent-chance-of-winning-reelection-political-science-professor/

Brere Eli did a few pieces on eco-modernism a while back: I think that there was a fair framing of the shortcomings there and in the comments that appeared below.

Shellenberger is simply Lomborg redux. He even uses the same strategy in an attempt to legitimize himself: write a screed producing arguments at odds with the vast majority of empirical studies and the opinions of scientists (myself included) but add a disclaimer claiming that he is a truly progressive environmentalist, and that his background spent in Latin America is somehow proof of his good intentions. Lomborg also claimed to be a member of Greenpeace (highly disputed) and is a vegan who rides a bicycle, but then writes a heavily criticized book (and later more books) claiming that environmental problems are exaggerated, that things are getting better and better for almost everyone, and that a rosy future is in store. Both Lomborg and Shellenberger are acolytes of neoclassical economic theory with its tenets of unlimited economic growth and technology as a solution for any problems arising from our consumer culture. This is where the term ‘ecomodernism’ emerged. And it is primarily garbage, because it downplays or ignores the connection between the material and natural economies.

Nothing makes a better story than someone who changes horses midstream. Patrick Moore was probably the first to do it, cashing in his ancient Greenpeace affiliation to shill for corporations and anti-environmental groups. Lomborg and Shellenberger are already the darlings of the far end of the political right: Lomborg regularly speaks at think tanks and for business groups while Shellenberger was recently interviewed by Glenn Beck and Tucker Carlson. Note how Shellenberger’s piece went viral in the denialosphere. Like Moore, they both know who their true constituency is and they milk it for all of it is worth. What was especially galling about Shellenberger’s admission was his quite arrogant claim to be ‘speaking on behalf of the environmental movement’. Bullshit. He was speaking for himself. It takes remarkable hubris for anyone to make such an outrageous claim. Like Lomborg, Shellenberger is clearly a bit of a legend in his own mind.

Flynn was a military man, a general, and I just don’t believe your story that he was such a snowflake as to melt under questioning and admit to having done things he didn’t do — or to become unsure that he didn’t actually do them either. That’s sound like part of a plot from a bad movie.

Personally, I think Flynn should have been prosecuted long ago for trying to feed classified information to his Russian friends (why he was removed from his security job) and going over to Russia and accepting a fat fee from Russia Today (I believe) to show up with Putin and metaphorically kiss his ring to signal his lackey status (as it was seen in Russia).

Tyvor, the appeals court ruling declares misconduct by the FBI, the first time a court has acknowledged this.
The admission by Flynn was likely because they threatened to prosecute his son for FARA violations, which DOJ admitted were not valid in another case that was tossed by a federal judge.
It’s possible Flynn thought he had made false statements after FBI claimed he did.
The editing of interview notes should have drawn the judge’s suspicion.
The released 302s does not have any appearance of ‘sanctions’.
https://www.scribd.com/document/412593612/Peter-Strzok-FD-302
yet they told the court about sanctions which they then described as including expulsions.
Flynn made a distinction at the time between the two at the time:
https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/14/exclusive-defiant-flynn-insists-he-crossed-no-lines-leakers-must-be-prosecuted/

Rather, unless I’ve missed some relevant Trump family trivia these past four years, this individual appears to be the first person in Trump’s immediate or extended family with demonstrable evidence of possessing a BRAIN. If true, this is a substantial finding that should be immediately written up and submitted to the Journal of Comparative Neurology.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10969861