A challenge to those inclined to dismiss this statement as rhetorical hyperbole: Show me the evidence-free challenge that Republicans are making to any sizable contingent of white votes in any of the states at issue.
I know of none. Maybe @KristenClarkeJD or @marceelias or @emilybazelon can help me out here. Or maybe some of the Trumpists can point me to an example.
But remember: 40 percent of white people voted for Biden. If you want a huge pool of votes to delegitimization, you should be interested in counting only the legal ballots among those votes. Why are Republicans not fishing in those waters?
The answer is simple and it is ugly. And we should call it by its name.

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To everyone flipping out on Twitter right now. Stop. Breath. And let’s go over what’s going to happen. Tomorrow, the electoral result in Georgia will be certified. Monday, the results in Michigan and Pennsylvania will be certified.
Arizona will follow in a week.
Nevada and Wisconsin will certify on December 1.

The electors will cast their votes on December 14.

Congress will count those votes on January 6.

That is what’s going to happen.

All the rest is antidemocratic noise.
The reason you are hearing nothing but calm seriousness from the president-elect and his team is that they know this.
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Who knew?
To be precise. It's excerpts from Mein Kampf. Not clear to me why they published it at this stage--more than a decade after its publication.
There does not appear to be an editor's note explaining the editorial purpose. Given the time of publication, June 1941--during a prior of US formal neutrality but backing of UK--I assume it must have been to show how horrible he was. But I am not sure. Does anyone know?
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Republicans elected and appointed officials are behaving terribly. It is democratically corrosive. It is very bad. But here is what’s going to happen.
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