“we may have additional tools now that we didn't before, including a Justice Department that may be willing to pursue criminal contempt when people deliberately flout compulsory process."
This thread outlines part of the reason that I simply don’t believe the GOP can be “saved.” The institution itself has been captured and infiltrated. There is no one who can stand up to it, even if they wanted to.
This is why we have to undo the party’s structural advantages.
-Outlaw the dark money that is anonymously funding it
-Ban partisan gerrymandering
-Counter GOP state laws enshrining their power/control
-Expand SCOTUS & expose its corruption
-Outreach to middle of the road voters, to explain what is going on
Most of these things are already addressed in Dem legislation - like the For the People Act.
But Dem “moderates” are slow walking these initiatives, and blocking us from using tools like filibuster reform that would allow us to implement them.
For more background on ALEC, if you aren’t familiar with them, read this thread to get an idea of how integral they are to the GOP - from organizing evangelicals in the 1980s, all the way through writing the GOP’s voter suppression bills today.
This is the Oath Keepers' attorney. The FBI has seized her phone.
What's really interesting is that she is now starting to call out Kirkland Ellis.
Yet, as usual, their biases and previously ingested conspiracy theories can only seem to reason that this must somehow point to Obama, the Clintons, and Seth Rich.
I can't help but think that some of them may even be genuinely trying here.
Because they aren't really wrong about Kirkland & Ellis.
It's just that their massive blind spots (created by right wing propaganda) prevent them from seeing things clearly.