Thread by @Monaheart1229

"..'if the current Republican Party controls both Houses of Congress on Jan. 6, 2025, there’s no way if a Democrat is legitimately elected they will get certified as the president-elect.'"
PAY attention! GOP must NOT win majority in 22!!
nytimes.com/2021/05/13/opi…

2/"Liz Cheney’s removal from [GOP] House leadership is the latest sign that Newland is probably right. Today’s Republican Party has no political philosophy in the normal sense; it is .. organized around fealty to Trump and the stab-in-the-back myth that the election was stolen..

3/"Cheney had to go because she rejects that lie, recognizing it as inimical to democracy, which she continues to value. Her defenestration is one more indication that the party is preparing to do in the next election what it could not do in the last one.

4/"Absent an overwhelming mobilization by Democrats, Republicans have a good chance of winning the House in 2022. Redistricting alone will probably give them several new seats. They could win the Senate as well.

5/"If Biden or another Democrat prevails in 2024, a House run by Kevin McCarthy, the craven minority leader who helped push Cheney out, seems likely to collaborate in right-wing schemes to change the result.

6/"Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election revealed how much our democracy depends on officials at all levels of government acting honorably. Republicans on state boards of election, like Aaron Van Langevelde in Michigan, had to certify the results correctly.

7/"Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had to resist Trump’s entreaties to “find” enough missing votes to put him over the top. Republican state legislatures had to refuse Trump campaign pressure to substitute their own slate of electors for those chosen by the people.

8/"Congress had to do its job in the face of mob violence and count the Electoral College votes. Trump’s rolling coup attempt didn’t succeed, but it did reveal multiple points at which our system can fail.

9/"Since the election, Republicans, driven by the lie that is now their party’s central ideology, have systematically attacked the safeguards that protected the last election.

10/"They have sent the message that vigorous defense of democracy is incompatible with a career in Republican politics. (Besides losing her leadership role, Cheney could easily lose her House seat.) Michigan Republicans declined to renominate Van Langevelde to the Board of

11/"State Canvassers. Raffensperger will most likely face a tough primary challenge in 2022. As Politico reported, in the next election, there will be secretary of state races in five of the 10 closest battleground states.

12/"Republican candidates for those offices will have an incentive to pretend to believe that a great injustice was done to Trump in 2020, and pledge to help rectify it.

13/"..Think about what 2020 would have been like if Trump loyalists had controlled the local and state level counting and certification process. .. Some legislatures, might even be prepared to go beyond state law

14/"'in a way that invites litigation and uncertainty and delay that then invites Congress to step in.' We’ve already seen how the accretion of lies and confusion about the last election has justified political purges and restrictive new voting laws.

15/"Such lies could also give a Republican-controlled Congress a pretext to object to the counting of state electors. .. the election would be tossed to the House, with each state delegation getting one vote.

16/"Even now, with the House as a whole controlled by Democrats, there are more states whose representatives are predominantly Republican.

17/"With enough procedural mischief, politicians representing a minority of the country could hand the presidency to a candidate who got a minority of both the popular and Electoral College votes.

18/"If this has never been an evident danger in the past, it’s because both parties were at least outwardly committed to liberal democracy, and probably thought their voters were, too.

19/"That is no longer true. The Republican electorate, believing that Democratic victories are by their nature illegitimate, demands that everything possible be done to subvert them.

20/"For rejecting the anti-democratic turn in her party, Cheney — a right-wing extremist in many other regards — has been cast out. Republicans are showing us exactly what they expect of their officials.

21/"They’ve made it clear that while American democracy was given a reprieve in 2020, the work of repairing it has barely begun."
~excerpts Michelle Goldberg, NYT