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“But the preemptive strike in the whole thing was Mike and the walk, which was huge. He set the whole table for us.”

As you may have surmised, the Columbia Compromise is a preemptive, non-negotiated capitulation in advance to MAGA-style tyranny, in hopes of maintaining a semblance of independence while fending off an all-out assault.

Raab’s boss was sold, and instructed her to “take the novel off the table” in a preemptive deal that would prevent other publishers from bidding.

“So I didn’t want to just kind of preemptively put him in there. I felt good with who we had.”

The president ignited a firestorm by preemptively blaming the left for Kirk’s killing before anyone knew who the shooter was.