Oh, I know! You invite the chief architect of the former president's coup attempt to give a talk at your annual meeting, thereby lending your credibility to that effort and raising the odds that it happens again!
https://twitter.com/APSAtweets/status/1440375288181886982
@APSAtweets "strongly condemns... all those who have continuously endorsed and disseminated falsehoods and misinformation, and who have worked to overturn the results of a free and fair Presidential Election." Not strong enough to disinvite them from your conference though, eh?
It's easy to gloss over this. Who gives a shit who a relatively obscure academic group invites to their conference! But it drives me nuts because this is *precisely* how democratic backsliding gets normalized.
It sends the message that if you consider yourself a public intellectual in good standing, you can participate in the attempted overthrow of a democratically elected government and still be invited back to polite society afterwards.
The next crop of would-be insurrection enablers are watching all of this carefully. They're weighing their participation against the potential risks to their professional reputation.
And by and large, Eastman and all the other Federalist Society types who went along with this have faced very little in the way of professional consequences.
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