Thread by @SimonWDC

Let's take a step back, and review what's happened in recent months:

- Trump steals nation's secrets, lies about it to FBI. Historic security breach.

- Trump's CFO pleads guilty to 15 felonies.

- Trump takes the fifth 440 times in an investigation into his crooked finances.

- Jan 6th investigations establish Trump led a massive illegal conspiracy, involving hundreds of GOP officials incl Sens Graham and Johnson, which sought to overturn an American election and unleashed a violent attack on Congress as part of its strategy.

- The Trump family took $2b from the Saudi government, and launched a new business venture with them here in the US.

- The Supreme Court goes on an extremist field day, ending Roe, legalizing coercive prayer, weakening common sense guns laws.

- States pass medieval abortion restrictions, creating a public health crisis in the United States.

- A leading Republican organization brings Putin's closest ally in Europe, Hungary's Orban, to US while we are fighting Putin in Ukraine.

- More mass shootings.

- Election deniers have won GOP primaries across the country. Some of them will get elected this fall.

- Liz Cheney lost her primary to an absolute fucking lunatic.

- Trump has encouraged violence against the FBI/DOJ and attacks have taken place.

It's been a tornado of malevolence and venality unlike anything we've seen in American history.

It's why this election matters so much. Voters must reject what the GOP has become or it will get worse.

Things are moving our way but we cannot let up.

And there is growing evidence that all this criminality, awfulness and extremism - MAGA - is causing the GOP itself to crack, splinter and meltdown in the closing days of the election.

Praise f---ing be.

Thanks to the insights of readers one more example of recent MAGA malevolence:

- We learned just how much Barr corruptly whitewashed Mueller's findings on Trump's rancid relationship w/Putin; little doubt now Barr's betrayal of US natl interest among worst in US history.

W/knowledge now of Putin's attack on Ukraine/West, this historic natl security breach and Trump's ongoing attacks on our democracy, Barr/McConnell's efforts to bury Mueller and Zelensky blackmailing will become known as among darkest acts in US history.

Another addition to the outrageous litany of criminality, extremism and illiberalism of MAGA in recent months:

- we've learned that the Trumpists' penetration of our physical voting systems was far greater than had been understood.

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