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Chris Geidner

11 Dec, 6 tweets, 1 min read

This story is enraging. theintercept.com/2020/12/10/bid…

Look at what happened tonight with Trump and Barr and SCOTUS and Brandon Bernard. Look at what happened all day with the GOP in the Texas ignore-democracy SCOTUS litigation. Look at what McConnell is doing to decrease relief for Americans suffering due to the pandemic & economy.

How could you be in the position of preparing to take over the presidency in the midst of all of this and not say, “Yes, I am going to do everything in my power to help Americans get through this and be able to come out as whole as possible on the other end”?

And his take on policing is just so tired. Thank god we at least have people like Gascón taking office and making change immediately.

Anyway, Bill Barr was eager to and got to kill another man tonight and GOP AGs want to disenfranchise entire states, so I’m a little unhappy.

(And, yes, those 106 Members of Congress, too. Disgusting.)

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A problem — not “the problem,” bc there are many — is that the Republican leadership’s approach to Trump now is basically what it’s been all along: “That’s ugly, authoritarian, and almost certainly won’t work. We’ll just stand aside, and if it doesn’t, fine. It is does, cool.”

Of course, there are some who go along, affirmatively, but the party leadership generally has tried to take the “we’ll try to get the benefits of his attempts to undermine the country’s foundation without taking ownership of it” approach.

It’s always been a bad and irresponsible approach, but we’re seeing how actually dangerous it is, day by day, right now. At some almost imperceptible point along the path, the Republican position stopped looking like idly standing by — and became a part of Trump’s efforts.

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