NEW: The events in Texas this month should highlight just how idiotic state-level secession is—but pro-Trump secessionist rhetoric is only going to grow and grow. nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
Think for a second what an unmitigated disaster secession would be for Texas (or any state).
It's a complete fantasy that the economics, the security, or the population(s) would somehow remain static.
nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
It's a complete fantasy that the economics, the security, or the population(s) would somehow remain static.
nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
The recent secession chatter on the Trumpian right can't just be laughed at. It's qualitatively different than anything before—and it continues to gain new adherents.
And it has to be condemned as being little more than calls for armed, authoritarian treason.
And it has to be condemned as being little more than calls for armed, authoritarian treason.
Like Trumpism, this secessionist chatter on the Trumpian right is little more than nativism, xenophobia, and white racial grievance.
https://twitter.com/wsteaks/status/1365484882999312384
This all dovetails with disturbing numbers from @BrightLineWatch: Half of Republicans in the South (plus Kentucky/Oklahoma) are now fine with breaking up the U.S.: brightlinewatch.org/american-democ…
@538politics had a good podcast on the new numbers here: fivethirtyeight.com/features/polit…
@538politics had a good podcast on the new numbers here: fivethirtyeight.com/features/polit…
One other thing: Unless you want violence on the scale of the Partition of India—primarily targeting non-white and immigrant populations—liberals should really, really stop encouraging secession of so-called "Red States."
https://twitter.com/cjcmichel/status/1366026993683292165
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