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21 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Trumpsters are complaining about the Trump transition. Let's open the book by Governor Chris Christie, who headed Trump's transition in 2016-2017, to hear from him. Page 6
More Chris Christie on the Trump transition, p. 6
Chris Christie on who wrecked the Trump transition, from p. 7 of his memoir, "Let Me Finish." hachettebooks.com/titles/chris-c…
The Trump transition was indeed botched and bungled - not by President Obama, not by Hillary Clinton, not by the Deep State, but by Trump's own failure and the buffoons Trump surrounded himself with. Who says so? Trump's own transition chief said so. hachettebooks.com/titles/chris-c…

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22 Nov
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21 Nov
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"Plaintiffs ask this Court to disenfranchise
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19 Nov
No more happy talk about the "uniquely American transition of power." Trump presidency and this post-election period confirm that the US is *less* committed to democratic norms - and has *weaker* institutional safeguards for democracy - than peer wealthy democracies.
I asked a German diplomat friend to detail the safeguards against, say, a German chancellor trying to extend her tenure despite losing an election. He replied that such a thing was utterly impossible, he couldn't begin to enumerate the reasons why. And he was right of course.
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18 Nov
"Everyone ... has adjusted to a world in which US influence is declining" - @anneapplebaum in @TheAtlantic
today. To some degree, relative decline is dictated by objective facts. Trump hastened it. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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My latest in @TheAtlantic : the GOP's two paths away from Trump - forward toward democracy, back toward the methods of Jim Crow: leveraging anti-democratic local rule to wield national power theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@TheAtlantic A last-ditch Trumpist plan to overturn the 2020 election results: beg GOP state legislators in Biden states like Pennsylvania to substitute pro-Trump electors.

This idea was thinkable because GOP had won majority in PA legislature with 500,000 fewer votes than Dems in 2018. 2/x
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In the end, the legislators flinched. The idea was illegal anyway. (Little Trumpists care about that.) But it demonstrated ... 3/x
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Those of us who have lived in the vicinity of malignant narcissists will recognize Trump's behavior pattern 1/x
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"minimizes social interactions and uses 'messengers' to communicate with the outside."

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