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Trump opposing mail-in ballots is the first step in the November presidential election being canceled.

You need to understand he is an authoritarian. He will blame any of his many failures on the constraints of democracy. He will seize power.

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Authoritarians create crises and authoritarians use crises to remain in power. Any faith in our institutions or laws is only as good as people’s willingness to fight for them. You need to understand nothing should be taken for granted with Trump, with any authoritarian.
For anyone saying an election can’t be canceled or delayed. You need to understand this has happened time and time again. Authoritarians find ways, especially with the assistance of a party. Your faith is unfortunately misplaced.
And if you think Trump will accept a defeat by mail-in vote... look at 2016. The “voter fraud” excuse. Look at 2012, where Trump called for a literal revolution as Romney list handedly to Obama.

It’s time to reconsider what you think is possible.
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Just so we're all clear, the Republican Party is intentionally making elections deadly in an attempt to drive down numbers.

We can't tiptoe around this. Call it "strategy." It's not. It's an anti-democratic movement and this behavior is just ghoulish.
Make no mistake, efforts to secure the November presidential election will be fought tooth and nail by Republicans who know that making voting safe and convenient will doom them as a party.

If we want free and fair elections, we need to start NOW. There's simply no time to waste
But we cannot allow Republicans to leverage a deadly pandemic as a means to drive down voter participation or have elections canceled. We can't continue acting like any of this is normal or humane or acceptable.

We're in dangerous times and these are dangerous people.
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What's happening in Wisconsin is a crime against the people. Forcing them to go against public health warnings and risk their lives to vote is the logical endpoint of the GOP's war on free and fair and elections.

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We need to look at Wisconsin today and realize that if we're going to have elections in November, if we're going to continue as a liberal democracy in any way, shape, or form, we'd better get serious about planning and reform.

We don't have any time to spare.
Let’s be clear. The Republican Party attacks elections, makes them inconvenient, opposes reform, and actively disenfranchises people because it knows, as a political body, it cannot win free and fair elections.

This isn’t disputed. They’ve said as much. And it’s fascistic.
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The thing you need to understand about the Trump Administration is that there is no Trump Administration.

There's an illusion of a government presented by a collection of criminals whose only concern is further dismantling government to accelerate profit and consolidate power.
The Trump Administration is the final movement in a decade's old effort by Republicans to destroy governance completely and move the directing of society to the wealthy and markets.

Trump is the deathblow. He's not there to solve problems or save lives.

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When the pandemic set in, the first goal of the Trump Administration was to pretend it didn't exist. It was a corporate PR strategy. Once it became unhideable, the question became: how can we profit from this?

We have to realize we're not watching politics-as-usual.
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