They've probably got nothing on the nuttiest lefties I know. "Levitate the Pentagon with meditation" types.
Compared to them, the doctrinaire Leninists seem reasonable. There are very few of those remaining, thank goodness.
The genuinely nutty lefties are sufficiently impractical to be irrelevant. Though it is irritating how they don't vote. (The back-to-the-land primitivism extremists, the meditation-is-magic types, and the "Leninist revolution" types *all* don't vote.)
I've found that most of what's described as "nutty" on the left in popular discourse is actually perfectly sensible ideas being demonized by the vested interests which stand to lose out. Nobody's actually talking about the genuinely nutty left-wing ideas (levitate the Pentagon with meditation!) at all, not for the last two decades.
I know plenty of "new age" liberals. One woman I know well believes the nuttiest things and refuses to believe things that are factually proven. She also watched Rachel Maddow every night and votes in every election. She has admitted to seeing a lot of herself in Frankie (played by Lily Tomlin) on the Netflix show
Grace and Frankie.
Back in the mid-90s I ran into a bunch of people who adamantly believed some "prophet" who predicted by 1998 most of California was going to break off and sink into the Pacific and the Mississippi was going to permanently expand to about 100 mi wide. Some of these people were actually buying property in the Mojave Desert expecting it to be ocean front property.
When I tried to explain the Geology of California prevented that from happening, even if the faults moved suddenly and more than they had in entire human history. They dismissed me as a "denier". Last time I was in San Diego Southern California's coastline hadn't changed much in the last 25 years. I lost track of them so I couldn't check in with them when their prophecy didn't happen.
Though I don't know if they voted or not.
Poll shows Collins is till ahead of Gillion by a mile - ofcourse 51% is nothing to boast about.
Early poll shows Maine voters are unsettled
Moreover - in more recent elections, people tend to vote down ballot based on presidential vote. So that will go against Collins - much like it happened to Kelly Ayotte in NH in '16. IIRC, in 2016 there was not a single instance when Trump lost a state & the Republican senator won.
At the moment Susan Collins doesn't have a clear opponent. There are enough people irritated with her that whoever does run against her is going to have a huge war chest.
A lot can happen in a year and a half. Nixon's approval ratings were actually quite good until the Watergate evidence started coming out. The way McConnell is trying to ram through judges, I suspect he believes all business in Congress is going to grind to a halt when the Mueller report information actually does make it out.
Barr has shown all the signs of someone trying to stall for time for some reason, then McConnell has announced he's fast tracking judges and it makes a bit more sense. I think it's possible Barr has privately let McConnell know how bad the Mueller report is for Trump and McConnell may be thinking that even if Trump was gone and we had Pence things might still be too chaotic to ram through the favorable judges Pence would nominate.
On the other hand Barr might be trying to buy time for some key indictments to come down before releasing the report. Last week there was news of Mueller team whistle blowers who were upset at the delays and the characterizations, but then they suddenly shut up. The most likely scenario there is someone who knows the plan, like Mueller talked to them and assured them that Barr's mischaracterizations are ruses to buy time for indictments.
Or Barr might be playing for time on two fronts?
Speculating about this is like what's going on with another thread here where some of us are going over some fragments of information found in the latest Tesla firmware update that might indicate a new battery pack for the S/X coming.
