Republicans are always celebrating small, often narrow legal wins as "MASSIVE VICTORIES."

Too much defense, not enough offense. This mentality ensures that, over time, the left wins.
Take yesterday's SCOTUS decision upholding AZ's ban on ballot harvesting. 100% the right result. It's good the AZ law was defended.

But it's purely defensive. If we lose a few state leg seats and get a Dem governor, boom: ballot harvesting is legal again in AZ.
This happens a lot with religious liberty cases.

Take the Bladensburg cross case, in 2019. Does a 40-foot WWI memorial cross on state land violate the 1st Amendment? No, SCOTUS said, 7-2, because... the cross is old and has a secular meaning. What? With victories like these...
Or the recent Fulton case. SCOTUS said 9-0 that Philly can't force a Catholic foster care org to place foster kids with gay couples.

Correct result, but: if you win a such a case 9-0 with Sotomayor on your side, it was argued super narrowly and its precedent is near worthless.
Masterpiece Cakeshop is another one. The baker won, SCOTUS said he can't be forced to write pro-gay things on the cake he was otherwise happy to bake.

Now the baker is being sued again, for not doing a pro-trans cake. This will continue forever. The process is the punishment.
Yes, we should take every win we can get. But we need to aim higher. Ballot harvesting remains illegal in AZ - great. The law also goes basically unenforced, there is plenty more to tighten up, and voters will demand that we not rest on our laurels. Onward!

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2 Dec 20
AZ isn’t Philly, but we do use Dominion voting machines, the Sec of State has the BLM hashtag in her bio, & she calls Trump supporters neo-nazis. Seems bad!

It's good to be skeptical (“scientific”!) about our procedures, *especially* if your instinct is to say they are perfect.
Easy improvement: get rid of proprietary election software.

Vote-counting is not a technical problem. We've known how to do it for centuries.

Counting should be open, transparent, prompt, and public — all obvious points, yet almost no jurisdiction delivers on them.
"But there’s no evidence that the system is insecure!”

OK. Half the country isn't buying that. First, there's lots of evidence (also noise), just no clear proof of outcome-changing fraud.

But of course: ballots are secret, once they're in the system... it's blind faith.
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I hope @realDonaldTrump wins reelection.

1. Here are some thoughts on why, what Trump is up against, and why I think it’s very bad for our country if he loses. A thread...
2. Joe Biden’s career has perfectly coincided with our country's decline. Sometimes he was an architect of decline, sometimes just a bystander. Today it's not clear he's any more than a prop, for an utterly failed establishment.
3. Four years ago, Trump arrested that decline with something very new. His election was the first thing that woke the zombies up. The 2016 win resonated for elites far more than the twin crises that preceded it: the financial crisis and series of endless wars abroad.
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