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The President is making baseless accusations of fraud and calling for the vote count to be stopped while his political allies are ahead. What would you say if you saw it in another country?
What will he do when it's him on the ballot instead of members of a party he only joined a few years ago?
At least
We're in a dangerous place as a country
From @TomPepinsky, an expert on authoritarian politics: "In a month of harrowing news, this development is still almost incalculably bad for American democracy."
tompepinsky.com/2018/11/12/wha…
.@rickhasen is also worried - "threaten[s] to undermine the very foundation of American democracy" slate.com/news-and-polit…
Read these. Dangerous.
Tufts political scientist
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Orrin Hatch 2018: I don't care if the President's own DOJ has implicated him in felonies. What is a "crime" anyway?

Orrin Hatch 1999: "crimes of moral turpitude such as perjury and obstruction of justice go to the heart of qualification for public office"
source link for the second excerpt: nytimes.com/1999/02/13/us/…
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The situation in WI is straight out of Levitsky & @dziblatt's How Democracies Die. We rely on norms of mutual toleration and forbearance to ensure the peaceful transfer of power. Violating that compact undermines democracy.
As with Trump, most elite Rs nationwide aren't speaking up in favor of these dangerous norm violations, but they're not willing to break from their party to condemn them either. And so we get a kind of tacit acceptance.
Scholars of democratic erosion know how dangerous this situation can be. Will Rs in other states do the same? Will Ds adopt similar tactics? Will GOP base come to demand a similar approach in future? Once partisan goals trump democratic commitments, everything is on the table.
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The peaceful transfer of power is the core of democracy. The losing side stripping powers from the winning side undermines that compact.
States are serving as laboratories of democratic erosion. Extremely worrisome.
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(1) The Prime Ministership of the UK.

Tonight in London, the ruling Conservative party voted on whether to keep Theresa May as PM. The outcome will be publicly known within minutes.

Below is info about how the British system works & what might happen next.
(2) Live updates on the Theresa May vote here:

news.sky.com/story/live-may…
(3) The UK uses the Westminster system of government, which is more or less the same system used in Canada, Australia, NZ and many other countries.

Unlike the US, the head of govt can be selected by the legislature at any time, and does not necessarily trigger an election.
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This is a good article, talking about problems that we have to, that the GOP won't and that we CAN fix! But first, just #Vote damnit!
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The Myth of the Lazy Nonvoter
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2/"If history is any indicator, only around 40 percent of eligible voters will vote in the midterm elections. Most people assume that voter turnout remains this low because Americans are apathetic and simply don’t want to vote. But it’s more likely that most Americans do want to
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!!NEW Q DROPS!! 10/02/18 14:10 EST!! Q Says symbolism will be their downfall!! Seems Reddit is cabal owned!! #QAnon #GreatAwakening #DarkToLight #RedOctober @realDonaldTrump
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Sanders parrots Trump's lie, saying he knows the Mueller probe is a "witch hunt" because "it was based on a false and unverified and discredited dossier."
Sanders claims that Trump's tweet calling the Russia probe "all a big hoax" was not calling the Russia probe a big hoax but rather that he was "referencing the collusion component" he did not mention.
Sarah Sanders asked about Trump continuing to air grievances about coverage of the Putin meeting: That's because "you guys continue to obsessively cover it."

You may recall that Trump complained that the media wasn't covering it enough.
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
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