Sadly related - Republican majority on New Hampshire Executive Council not only block federal funds to promote COVID vaccination, but threaten the status of the NH vaccine registry, which is essential to making sure every kid gets protected vnews.com/Executive-Coun…
Sadly related - Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch and everyone on the Fox board are helping to poison the well
Despite @ezraklein's constructive intervention, the great Dem messaging debate is one of the worst in recent memory on the bird site. So many cases of people talking past each other, changing the premises of the argument, attacking straw men, & assuming the worst of others. Sigh
True; many institutions performed well in resisting Trump (state election administrators, the judiciary, the military). But also true that a second term of Trump could pose a more profound threat - look at Orban's Hungary after he regained power.
More fundamentally, I have to admit I don't understand the impulse to rush into contrarianism on this point. Even if Kagan et al. are overestimating the risk of a successful coup or the equivalent, @DouthatNYT grants that such outcomes are possible. Isn't that a case for alarm?
If @DouthatNYT were at the airport and the gate agent said, well, the pilot may try to crash the plane but the co-pilot and the crew probably won't let him get away with it, would he tell everyone to calm down about the risks?