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I just sent today’s Editorial Board. I tried explaining why the president shot himself in the foot when he killed off stimulus talks with the Democrats. I hope it was useful. Politics isn’t easy to get. It isn’t easy to explain either. Real work goes into that. Real work goes into anything worth doing. And…