All right, Democrats: if you’re serious about “looking forward, not back” then at the very least you should use these past four years as a learning experience and strengthen some things we took for granted.
(1/x)
How about:
- Require all future Presidential candidates to disclose 10 years of tax returns
- Draw a line in the sand about when it’s acceptable to nominate SCOTUS replacements & stick to it
- Better yet, get rid of lifetime SCOTUS appointments & make it a 10-year limit
(2/x)
- Have a serious discussion about abolishing the Electoral College. (It’s just affirmative action for red states now; if they want a seat at the table, they should have to fairly compete in the marketplace of ideas.)
- Strengthen punishment for overt sedition
(3/x)
- I keep coming back to the way the Senate Republicans virtually bear-hugged Trump to protect him during the impeachment hearings; as it stands, I am unsure what rules we could implement to prevent this from happening in the future & am open to suggestions
(4/4)
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Trump thought that threatening Congress with his goons would wrest the Presidency away from Biden. It did not.
Americans are rightfully concerned with what they will do next in the service of Trump’s monomania.
I think there’s a word for people who deliberately inspire terror.
Make no mistake: nothing that happened yesterday changed Trump’s mind about anything. By several accounts, he appeared to enjoy watching the chaos on TV.
A few more Republicans seem to understand what we’re dealing with. Which is good.
Does she think that if the MSM were nicer to Trump voters, they’d start paying more attention to the media when they report the objectively terrible things Trump is doing?
Which sect of Trump voters does Meghan McCain believe are worthy of respect?
The aggressively deceitful ones who know that Trump is lying, or the deeply gullible ones who are brainwashed into believing that Trump and only Trump is telling the truth?
So the official view of the “Trump Always Wins” sect of the Republican Party is that it is perfectly reasonable for a Presidential candidate to win the popular vote, win the electoral vote, but still not ascend to the Presidency if 51 Senators say “Nah”
To be honest, I don’t know if this is even a mainstream view of the GOP or simply the mantra of a tiny but vocal sect of Trump dead-enders who believe “Trump Always Wins” is an immutable law of the Universe that the mainstream media just hasn’t figured out yet
I don’t know WTF these people think is going to happen on January 6th after Congress inevitably confirms the Biden election but clearly they think the Proud Boys are going to serve as some kind of MAGA enforcement militia
“Patriots” in 2020 translates to “Angry white guys with guns”
Most Trump supporters looked at Kyle Rittenhouse and thought “What a patriot!” Which makes perfect sense if you interpret “patriot” to mean “an angry white guy with a gun”
The State Capitol Building was surrounded by “patriots” who were there to protest Michigan’s social distancing ordinances.
Many people considered these “patriots” to be a threat.
Reports later came of a plot by “patriots” to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
COUNTERARGUMENT: The Trump supporters who do know Biden supporters have steadfastly refused to listen to a word any of us have said because they have all been brainwashed into beliving that mainstream media is a tool of the Deep State & never to be trusted washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
The implicit solution of the article is that Trumpism can be cured by exposing the participants to friendly voices from the other side, but the very structure of the cult is designed to reflexively reject such voices as unwitting participants of a huge anti-Trump conspiracy
LESSONS LEARNED
- When you eliminate shame from the equation, Republicans will happily lie again & again to get what they want
- When truth & power are at cross-purposes, the GOP will always choose power
- Sunlight is not always the best disinfectant; it is merely the easiest