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At bottom, Trump's efforts to foment rebellion against legitimately elected governors reflect his ongoing claim that Democratic governance is fundamentally illegitimate.

What we're seeing here is a very deep contempt for democracy itself.

New piece:
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Remember "Second Amendment remedies"?

That phrase was infamously used by a tea party Senate candidate in 2010, to hint at the possibility of armed rebellion against the Dem Congress.

We're hearing similar language from today's anti-lockdown protests:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
You can draw a straight line from the tea party's ugly rhetoric about "takers," right through to Trump's treatment of Democratic governors as illegitimate.

It's herrenvolk democracy meets minority rule.

With help from @AdamSerwer and @jtlevy:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@AdamSerwer @jtlevy Trump's treatment of the Democratic opposition as fundamentally illegitimate and his depiction of Blue America as a diseased and depraved threat to virtuous Red America is constant and ongoing:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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