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Epic Recall, Epic Fail

The DPP bet the farm on trying to flip the legislature their way by recalling an unprecedented number of KMT legislators. Mistakes were made.

I’ve actually tried to spend less of my one wild and precious life paying attention to the low-stakes yet bizarrely byzantine world of Taiwanese politics. I think they’ve been running on “Countering China and Protecting Taiwan” for as many cycles as I can remember now, while smearing everyone who doesn’t support them as commie-sympathizers. When you tried to take your political enemies down by rather underhanded procedural means with a liberal helping of partisan smears, you can’t expect them to be NICER to you upon returning.

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