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Steve Russell
7 min readJul 3, 2019

Head ’em Up and Move ’em Out

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There appears to be more herd-thinning going on in the Democratic Party primary than the herd is likely to concede.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE: Since I did the research for this piece, the minions of the DNC announced there will be a reshuffle between the two nights of debate one and the two nights of debate two based on polling and fundraising. The consequences will be distributed toward the less robust end of the herd and the primary one from the public interest perspective is that Steve Bullock may be released from the squirrel cage and be given one chance to break upward, if I may mix squirrels with cattle. Yes, I know I should be more respectful of those who risk their reputations asking for power but, on the other hand, taking ridicule is part of the job description.

Speaking of ridicule, I know I could have taken this article down and hidden my error, but I have been a would-be pundit all my life and I’ve always tried to be correct but also to own my errors. I am sorry for misleading about the lineup for the second debate nights, but not for my impressions of the first debate nights, which should remain on public display so I get correctly tagged with any further errors. Those who enter politics — as I did in my first career

Steve Russell
Steve Russell

Written by Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)

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