@ProjectLincoln You need to use this as a pivot for your hard, unflinching, messages. This message needs to get to Georgia, & to the country.
There is something astonishingly ugly about an entire party willing to submit itself to such astonishing nonsense to appease such a loser.
The fight is indeed not over. Trump is done. But what remains is Trumpism and the GOP that supports and enables him.
Every report reveals more about the craven cowardice of the Republican Senators who want to speak in secret, who want to coddle Trump, let him down easy...
It is reported that they do not want to upset Trump's voters. That Trump may turn on them if they do not continue to sing Trump's song and continue to dance to his demands.
What does it say that these are the people that these GOP types require in order to stay in power?
What does it say about the timid, craven, nature of the men & women who have so feathered their nest under the protection of the chief liar and deceiver of his supporters that they can no longer stand on their own? No longer can face the most blatant of facts.
A lot. Especially
What is especially telling about the cowards that are the GOP is that they are not leaders for a renewed America.
They have proven in word & deed who they serve. And it is not the country. It is Party First... And most especially the failed leader of their party, The Donald.
Whatever the lies and snow job that the Republicans/Trumpies have put over on the "Red States" it needs to be figured out and the truth told in a way that breaks through the fog; that breaks the grip on the mind of these low information people.
How that is done is up to people
that know how this was done. The message has been inculcated for years that the Democrats are the enemy of the country. It has been a successful message that has resulted in the rise of Trump. The @SteveSchmidtSES@davidfrum@MaxBoot@ProjectLincoln and the rest who figured out
the damage that has been done. These need to fix the problem they helped create. They know what was done, they know how to combat it.
This is not an issue of Conservative vs Liberal. It would be great if it were so simple. It is not even a simple partisan matter any longer.
Not in the old terms of Dem vs Pub. Something else has gotten into the GOP party that has infected it. While the shell has the same name it has been taken over by those foreign to its charter.
It is rightfully said that Reagan much less a Lincoln could be elected in today's GOP
So posts like this, manifestly wrong by every objective measure. Hypocritical beyond imagination - imagine if Clinton had tried any of the trickery Trump is pulling - and she had more of a chance to succeed! - The GOP would have gone nuts in its barred teeth howling. Did anyway.
This outright lie that the election of Biden is still questionable, and that there is sufficient evidence to withhold judgment is a point held not in integrity, but out of craven fear of the fool that has taken over the Republican Party.
Where are those who will tell the truth?
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state being threatened with kidnapping... These are the actions that have spawned by the believers who believe what Trump has been teaching them.
It seems likely there will be more as Trump fails to concede, the violence will get ramped up.
It will be met. And it will create
Listening w interest to @NoahRFeldman podcast Deep Background on the Federalist Society.
The argument thus far concerning originalism seems nothing so much as a religious one. Is the Bible Gods word, or do we learn principles fr it.
Originalists seek to find shelter in the
safety of "This is what the Founders meant" and thus excuse themselves, in their mind, from any culpability of having to make a decision based on principles.
Judges are supposed to be wise. Not legalists.
Just like even the most fundamentalists of Jewish sects today do not
practice the sacrifices and live according to all the laws of laid out in the Bible. Same with fundamentalists Christians who lay claim to some ancient heritage for current beliefs. So the Federalist Society member's claim to be governed only by the original text and meaning
My 2bits, adjusted for inflation, on this charade.
Not only this absurd moment in this tragicomic theatre performance but extended in general to the open air take over of the country being played out in one of its final acts.
some future "Gibbon" will look at this moment, not as the cause, but one of the final effects of the long deterioration of the Republican Party, how they cynically used fear & xenophobia to coalesce power.
As Steward Stevens says it: "It was always a lie".
Here the lie is being told again.
At this moment in time, it is still an open question, one that in a few months time will be answered one way or the other, whether these antiAmerican servants will win this battle & consummate
@GrassleyPress@ChuckGrassley You, Mr Grassley, are dim-witted, easily tricked, a stooge in the play, doing your part; or perhaps part of the cabal of people who, for as yet unknown reason [but will end up being something to do w power, money, fear & family] are willing to void your oath & subvert the country
@GrassleyPress@ChuckGrassley 2/ To pose such a question and accept such an answer when everything about this man, Trump, this administration, this nominee tell you exactly the opposite is to be willfully unwilling to look at the most basic of facts and truths in this moment.
@GrassleyPress@ChuckGrassley 3/ If you do not know that Trump demanded, and got, assurances of her loyalty is to not understand the basic contours of what is happening to the country these 4 years.
Thus, you must be either a participant in the farce or a mark and a useful idiot.
Maybe both.