The mailbag episode is here! Thanks to all who sent questions, and apologies to those who didn’t get answers. We hoped to get through more, but brevity isn’t our strong suit and we ran out of time. But the answers we DID deliver are choice, in our opinion.

We touch on:

* Ezra Klein’s terribly wrong ideas about the political impact of blue-state and blue-city misgovernance;

* What Donald Trump’s attempt at an unconstitutional third term will look like IF he tries;

* How Biden could go out with a bang, even without relying on presidential immunity (but probably won’t);

* Matt’s candid thoughts about Pod Save America (as Brian demurs).

This episode is free to all, a small token of gratitude to all of our subscribers this holiday season for making this podcast possible. We’ll do more of these in the coming year, and if you want your questions answered (or at least included in a lengthy Google document that we might not get through in the allotted time) you know what to do:

Further reading:

* Brian offers a new, important reason people should reset their relationships with social media.

* Michelle Goldberg on this great capitulation.

* Greg Sargent discusses the challenges of rebuilding in this climate with Ben and other DNC candidates, Ken Martin, and Martin O’Malley.