Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@RobAbramowitz @davidaxelrod What I mean—and tried, maybe unsuccessfully, to address later on in the thread—is that realism treated as its own endpoint *is* cynicism. Axelrod is saying his realist assessment of the situation means we should in our heads "skip ahead" and prepare to "move on"—that's cynicism. — PolitiTweet.org