1/ More from this must read, balloon-juice.com/2020/07/17/the…:
Unfortunately, the US political system, beginning with the Constitution, is not built to respond to, handle, and/or deal with an irregular, asymmetric, and unconventional insider threat...
Unfortunately, the US political system, beginning with the Constitution, is not built to respond to, handle, and/or deal with an irregular, asymmetric, and unconventional insider threat...
2/ "that recognizes no authority other than that of their own power and sees every law, rule, norm, and tradition solely as a means to obtain power, maintain power, expand power, or direct power to reward allies and punish opponents....
3/ "The President’s actions; those of his two primary protectors Attorney General Barr and Senator McConnell; those of his other protectors like new DNI Ratcliffe, former Acting DNI Grennell, the Republican caucuses in the Senate and the House, the Republican governors...
4/..."govs. aligned with the President, & his surrogates and supporters in the conservative movement & the conservative, news, digital, & social media ecosystem are all part of this irregular, asymmetric, and unconventional political warfare being waged on America & Americans...
5/ An unconventional political warfare campaign that has dovetailed nicely with the one being waged against the United States, its allies, and its partners by Putin since at least 2014*. Their ultimate goals are within their grasp....
6/ AG Barr’s is establishing the presidency as an elected monarchy. Senator McConnell’s is permanently establishing a Federalist Soc. majority on the Federal courts, as well as establishing permanent minoritarian control of the Federal government through the Electoral College...
7/ "and a senatorial election map that after 2024 will be weighted more and more towards ensuring a Republican majority in the Senate. The President’s objective, of course, is being reelected....
8/ Whether it is the Biden campaign, the various protect democracy groups, outside PACs and SuperPACs, the Democratic Party – they all need to be screaming about what is happening and what could happen...
9/ "They need to be all over the political reporters, their editors, the bookers for the broadcast and cable shows about this. The wider the coverage it gets, the more light that is focused on it, the more pushback that can be generated and sustained...
10/ "the less likely that what every bit of my professional expertise is screaming at me is going to happen and what is keeping me up at night will actually occur. Chuck Todd needs to so paranoid over this that they can observe him vibrating away in terror from the Crab Nebula!..
11/ "The way that Federal law enforcement and the National Guard has been used in DC to respond to the protests over George Floyd’s death to what we’re currently observing in Portland have all been not just responses in and of themselves, they have also been probing actions...
12/ "The President, AG Barr, the Acting DHS Secretary, the Acting C&BP Director are using these operations to gauge the responses. If and when they don’t get push back, or sufficient push back, they accelerate what they’re doing...
13/ "The only way to prevent it is to make sure it is getting wide spread coverage to generate sufficient push back to make them stop."
Read the whole thing. And call every D in office that you know, from senators to city/town councillors.
balloon-juice.com/2020/07/17/the…
Read the whole thing. And call every D in office that you know, from senators to city/town councillors.
balloon-juice.com/2020/07/17/the…
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