Today is 700 days on the nose until the midterm elections.

Progress. Tomorrow will be in the 600s.

It's a reminder that in campaigns, which are unique enterprises, that there are two finite

commodities that matter above all other things, time and money, and neither can be squandered.

This is the warning. We are approaching an urgent moment in the United States of America.

This country will be in crisis at exactly 12 noon on January 20th when power transfers subliminally, silently,

and peacefully to Donald Trump, who is the first president in American history to say the quiet

part out loud. He is coming for his opponents. He wants retribution and revenge. And there is no story

that points this out more ludicrously and more absurdly than the New York Times and its masterpiece

of campaign finance reporting focusing on the fecklessness of billionaire Reid Hoffman and his retainer,

the Lincoln Project's Dmitry Melhorn.

Now, Dmitry Melhorn and Reid Hoffman are terrified.

They're terrified of Donald Trump.

Reed Hoffman, the Silicon Valley billionaire, is telling anyone who will listen,

apparently, that he's going to flee the country. He's going to go into hiding somewhere,

apparently. Who knows where? Here's the thing with Reed Hoffman. He funded the lawsuits

against Donald Trump, where he was adjudicated as a rapist.

He funded E. Jean Carroll's lawsuits because he said it was the right thing to do.

He said he did it because he wanted to give a woman agency who was abused.

The thing about Reid Hoffman is with all the money, which for normal people

is like picking up a penny on the ground, giving it to a child and calling yourself a philanthropist.

What he liked was the adulation that came from easy wins and easy victories and all the signal virtueing that's so common

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