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NSA intercept, May 3, 8:44 pm.

Assistant to @POTUS Hope Hicks: "Hi there, it's Hope."
White House Reporter [NAME REDACTED]: "Hi, Hope."
Hope: "Listen, on very deep background--I advised against this Lincoln Memorial thing. But you know how it is. Kellyanne gets these ideas..."
NSA intercept, 8:46 pm.

Assistant to @POTUS Kellyanne Conway: "Hey, Kellyanne here."
White House Reporter [NAME REDACTED]: "Oh. Hi."
Kellyanne: "You can attribute this to a person very close to Trump. He's fuming. He says he wished he'd listened to Kellyanne instead of Jared..."
NSA intercept, 8:52 pm.

Assistant to @POTUS Ivanka Trump: "It is Ivanka."
White House Reporter [NAME REDACTED]: "Oh."
Ivanka: "Attribution: a most highly informed person. The president says his staff are "losers" lacking "worldly experience." He only trusts Jared and Ivanka..."
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1. A short thread on a rainy end-of-April evening.

Tomorrow's May. According to poets and lyricists through the ages, things should start to look up. And pundits in 2020 share the sentiment: That first third of 2020 was rough. But we made it through. The skies will brighten.
2. But will they? What if the first four months of 2020 turn out not to have been the worst third of the year, but the best? What if the pandemic not only doesn't go away but flares up again? What if the economy goes into something more like a depression than recession?
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2. Pelosi needs to make $2b for election funding non-negotiable in the next bailout package (or pass it as free-standing legislation and demand a Senate vote). Republicans need to be asked: Is bailing out our democracy less important than bailing out cruise ships?
3. Every Republican senator and House member should be asked: " Why do you seem fine with disenfranchising your constituents this November?" Their constituents need to call the district and state offices and ask why their senator or representative wants to deny them the vote.
4. In states (e.g., Ohio) trying to do the right thing, Republican senators and members of Congress have to be asked why they're unwilling to help. (Yes that's you, @senrobportman.) And speaking of Wisconsin: you fine with disenfranchising your constituents, @RonJohnsonWI?
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This thread is well worth reading for those interested in seeing the (often veiled, often disingenuous) assault on liberal democratic constitutionalism exposed and challenged.
FWIW (and this is a MUCH longer discussion), I think my defense of liberal democratic constitutionalism might be somewhat more "conservative" than Laura's--but we are very much on the same side as defenders of liberalism broadly understood against the apologists for illiberalism.
"I would, I think, have loved freedom in all times; but I feel myself inclined to adore it in the time we are in."
-- Tocqueville, DA, II 4.7
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