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10 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Let's be clear: President Trump lost the election. The efforts by the leaders of a major political party to say that is not so and to cast doubt on a free and fair election are an anti-democratic attempt to steal the election. 1/4

washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
It is tempting to say we're just talking about a self-indulgent and semi-delusional leader who is appropriately being given time and space to come to grips with his loss. That is not right. His emotional needs do not take precedence when the democracy is at stake. 2/4
Most likely all of this will stop after the votes are all counted and the frivolous legal challenges defeated. If that is the case, there will still be tens of millions of Americans who wrongly believe the election was illegitimate, which will do great damage to our society. 3/4
If the efforts to deny the results of the election continue after that, or if they are bolstered by politicized actions by state legislatures or judges acting in a partisan manner, then we will be in very different territory. We will be witnessing an attempted coup. 4/4

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