“We are witnessing a blatant ploy to undercut a core premise of our constitutional democracy — that the people (and party) leaving office have an obligation to transfer their powers peacefully and professionally. Period.” @AriMelber, on the Wisconsin coup. wapo.st/2SATBex
In another conspicuous grasp for power, the Republican majority in Wisconsin’s Senate pushed through 82 of defeated governor @ScottWalker’s nominees in one day. Eighty-two in one day. At least one was for an office that Walker had left vacant for a year. huffp.st/3jR6c1l
“For all the attention on Donald Trump as a threat to American democracy,” @jbouie writes, accurately, “it’s these actions—from ordinary, almost anonymous, Republican politicians, uncontested by anyone of influence in the party—that are much more ominous.” slate.trib.al/9pUM3mZ
