You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
Tim, I'm also experiencing your blood pressure levels and you're *exactly* right when you say that a lot of these people who say one thing behind closed doors and do another in public are going to hand Trump the WH keys simply because they're trying to avoid career fallout in being honest. This is the kind of shit we'd expect from republicans and now we're seeing it within team blue. It's fucking pathetic.
This is just further evidence that, though the healthier party, the Democratic Party isn't immune from the sickness that has overtaken the Republican Party. In the end, humans are humans; we're not really that distinct from each other. This whole thing has been so eerily close to the Trump Republican era, it's been quite depressing.