“It is not always savvy to be chill” — yes, precisely.
https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1391790185621250051
Take this, for instance.
No one can predict the future — but the potential of an overturned election warrants consideration and response _now_, rather than a decision to cross this bridge once we find it.
No one can predict the future — but the potential of an overturned election warrants consideration and response _now_, rather than a decision to cross this bridge once we find it.
https://twitter.com/billscher/status/1391759683564757004
Why? First: because come 1/2025, *if* the U.S. arrives at a spot where leaders in authority, in states and the Congress, reject popular-vote results, there may be few options left for rectifying that.
https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1391777086076071937
Second, what we see among Republicans—from the effort to cast out Liz Cheney to the election ‘audit’ in Maricopa Co., Ariz.—are actions by people who, to quote @ThePlumLineGS, are “fully devoted to the project of continuing to undermine confidence in our elections going forward.”
https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs/status/1391764177316982789
As this @nataliesurely piece reminds me today, for 10 yrs now Republicans have increasingly told voters “no, shut up”—gutting felon enfranchisement in Fla., ignoring Medicaid expansion votes in Maine & Mo., and kneecapping incoming governors in Wis. & N.C. newrepublic.com/article/162346…
Concern over Republicans and the counting of votes in 2024 _responds to the evidence_ — evidence of a party increasingly comfortable, as the insurrection showed & subsequent voter-suppression bills underscore, with rejecting the clear, explicit will of voters.
https://twitter.com/billscher/status/1391795975019245571
This is right — and should remind us of how Republicans in 2011 introduced the specter of a congressional repudiation of the public debt, despite the plain meaning of the full faith and credit clause of the 14th Am.
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1392506731469676547
Did Republicans step back from the brink in 2011? Sure, yes.
Is ex-Speaker John Boehner, who bargained the deal to resolve that impasse, on the outs with his party? Yes — just like Ga. SoS Brad Raffensperger, and now Liz Cheney, find themselves today. politico.com/story/2011/07/…
Is ex-Speaker John Boehner, who bargained the deal to resolve that impasse, on the outs with his party? Yes — just like Ga. SoS Brad Raffensperger, and now Liz Cheney, find themselves today. politico.com/story/2011/07/…
In other words, to draw the conclusion that Republicans will reliably climb down from threats to violate fundamental norms of American governance — simply because now-deposed Republicans did so before — seems like a hell of a risky bet. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Last thought: some have speculated that polarization would eventually force the U.S. to adopt parliamentary government.
A congressional veto over the popular vote — superimposing the choice of the House, in essence, over that of voters — would be one hell of a way to get there.
A congressional veto over the popular vote — superimposing the choice of the House, in essence, over that of voters — would be one hell of a way to get there.
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1392288885397495813
(* I should clarify that — as my quote of Morris suggests — I don’t think such an outcome should be described as ‘democracy’ at all.)
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