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9 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The professional association of political science literally did a "both sides" statement after a violent insurrection. Do better.
The statement does say this. But the part on what to do about the insurrection is pure both sides-ism.
*Axe Body Spray* managed to denounce the insurrectionist riot at the Capitol without engaging in "both sides" equivalence. Somehow the American Political Science Association couldn't. Sigh. ImageImage

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8 Jan
Also the people with the time and money to go to DC on a weekday are going to be relatively advantaged
More examples here - a lawyer, a teacher, a chief executive (!), a sheriff, and a small business owner. As with Trump's supporters, higher income/status than many assume washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01…
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Warnings like these aren't necessary in stable, consolidated democracies.
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Esper, Mattis
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3 Jan
An authoritarian is trying to overturn a free and fair election. He presents an ongoing threat to democracy every day he is in the White House and should be removed from office.
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1 Jan
Precisely what I'm warned against in podcast with @MattGrossmann niskanencenter.org/how-much-did-t… - the way Trump is now warping the incentives of ambitious Republican politicians
"At least 140 House Republicans to vote against counting electoral votes" - we're at the edge of the precipice; a major party is on verge of refusing to accept the result of an election cnn.com/2020/12/31/pol…. This is how Trump is warping incentives.
Per @BenSasse: "in private, I haven’t heard a single Congressional Republican allege that the election results were fraudulent - not one. Instead, I hear them talk about their worries about how they will 'look' to President Trump’s most ardent supporters." facebook.com/SenatorSasse/p…
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28 Dec 20
Hilarious - this is going into presidency textbooks washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020…
Trump has to be the most feckless legislative president of modern times and it doesn't seem particularly close. (And yet he has still managed to push our democracy to its limits.)
Right from the Trump playbook () - we're currently on #3
1. Present distorted version of status quo
2. Create crisis over distorted version of status quo
3. Restore status quo (often at substantial cost)
4. Take credit for status quo
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21 Dec 20
Election-denying lunatics join forces Voltron-style
whoa
The confederacy of dunces that is urging the man with the nuclear codes to overturn the election. What could go wrong?
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