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17 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Stunning.

Raffensperger deserves credit for refusing to bow to pressure, and for coming forward with this. According to other reporting he and his wife have received death threats since his refusal to lie for Trump.
What we've seen for 4 years its that a number of Republicans refuse to go along. Think of all those people who marched in to testify in the impeachment hearings.

Had Raffensperger gone along, the outcome wouldn't change because a case needs evidence. . .
Had Raffensperger bowed to pressure, we'd have a Pennsylvania situation where the GOP bring cases claiming fraud, but without evidence, eventually the cases dissolve.

It's stunning that people like Graham don't even PRETEND anymore to care about free and fair elections.
Raffensperger is taking his story to the airwaves.

He says he is a conservative Republican and always has been, but "integrity matters."

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19 Nov
Hungarian scholar Balint Magyar offers a theory that explains why the US is holding out against the same tactics that caused other countries to collapse into autocracy.

His theory also explains why comparisons across nations doesn't always work.
@juliaioffe
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While writing about post-communists mafia states, he talked about the “big bang” theory:

He says that the “conditions preceding the democratic big bang have a decisive role in the formation of the system.”

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Here's how I understand the theory (to use Russia as an example)

At the time of the Russian Big Bang (early 1990s, when a Democracy struggled to be born) the Communist Party had a monopoly on power and resources.

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18 Nov
Another Republican attempt to prevent ballots from being counted loses in court.

(The ballots were received on time, but the voter failed to write the date. No allegations of fraud. Just a simple mistake. GOP wanted the votes not to count)

Nope. Count them.
In Sept. Trump announced his strategy for keeping power: Get rid of the ballots.

He's been trying hard.

It isn't so easy.

He's not just losing because of an incompetent legal team. He's losing because he has no legal argument.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
I actually meant no cause of action, but there is also no evidence.
The common thread behind all Trump's legal challenges is: There is fraud, therefore, throw out all the ballots.

Even if there was fraud, this is not the remedy.

Also, there is no fraud.
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18 Nov
As it turns out, I just finished reading the complaint. It's here: cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/p…

I assume that's the one you mean.

It's about as incoherent as Rudy's performance in court today. The basic argument seems to be: There was lots of fraud so Trump won.
As it turns out, I have some experience in Nevada. I spent two elections as a volunteer lawyer for the NV Dems, so I have some familiarity with NV voting.)

The first problem is that there is nothing to back up the claims of fraud . . .
The second problem is that the proposed remedy is to either declare Trump the winner (which makes no sense) or completely disenfranchise every voter in Nevada in the presidential election. Image
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17 Nov
I don't know how good I'll be at that, but here goes.

This is an oral argument on the defendant's motion to dismiss. law.cornell.edu/wex/motion_to_…

Giuliani is trying to keep the complain from being thrown out.

He is now arguing that mail-in ballots are nationwide problem. . .

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. . . and that what is happening in Pennsylvania is a "small part of the problem."

He just called "mail in voting" a "new form of voting," and is rambling about how it's "widely known" to be riddled with fraud.

And all the problems are in big cities controlled by Democrats.

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Giuliani is rambling. The judge is letting him talk.

"This is not an isolated case" Giuliani says.

From my own (limited) experience (I've only done appeals) a silent judge is not a good sign 😉

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17 Nov
This morning I'm working on my graphic novel about the Second Amendment (no kidding—to be published by Macmillan)

One of my characters just had a similar rant⤵️

I wonder how that happened? 🤔

Thanks again, @IAmPoliticsGirl. You did me better than I do me.
You see, the NRA wants to take us back to that that (mythic) time in American history when white men could do whatever they pleased.

In fact, there were laws to stop them. But they grabbed what they wanted anyway. (Sound like anyone you know in government now)

No worries. I close my eyes when movies get too graphic.

What's funny about this is I always refused to watch movies with guns and violence. Except The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. I'll watch that one.

But I still close my eyes when the shooting starts.
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15 Nov
We had a brief period between about 1932 and the 1970s when we had a strong middle class and functioning democracy (thanks to the New Deal) but Blacks and minority communities were largely left out.

When we tried to include everyone, the backlash started.
People who are shocked by the current income inequality and unfairness and call the system "broken" are not looking at history from the viewpoint of nonwhites.

For a lot of people, this is the best it's ever been. Look at the diversity of Democrats in Congress.
I meant to type 1933 as the start of the FDR presidency. He put a lot of legislation into effect. By the end of his presidency, he had made enormous progress.

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