"State Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft. [They have] studied Donald Trump’s crusade to overturn the 2020 election. They have noted the points of failure and have taken concrete steps to avoid failure next time." @TheAtlantic
"Some of them have rewritten statutes to seize partisan control of decisions about which ballots to count and which to discard.... They are driving out or stripping power from election officials who refused to go along with the plot last November."
"What we know already, and could not have known [on Jan. 6], is that the chaos wrought on that day was integral to a coherent plan. In retrospect, the insurrection takes on the aspect of rehearsal."
"Most Republican politicians would likely confess that Biden won in 2020, but the great mass of lumpen Trumpers, who believe the Big Lie with unshakable force, oblige them to pretend otherwise."
"Other things being equal, insurgents were much more likely to come from a county where the white share of the population was in decline."
Yikes. 21 million "committed insurgents" in the U.S. 👇 
"The more we learn about January 6, the clearer the conclusion becomes that it was the last gambit in a soundly conceived campaign—one that provides a blueprint for 2024." Bingo. @bartongellman gets it.
"Trump needed 38 electors to reverse Biden’s victory, or 37 for a tie that would throw the contest to the House of Representatives. For all his improvisation and flailing in the postelection period, Trump never lost sight of that goal."
The Big Lie is destroying election integrity.
"In at least 15 more states, Republicans have advanced new laws to shift authority over elections from governors and career officials in the executive branch to the legislature."
"In at least 15 more states, Republicans have advanced new laws to shift authority over elections from governors and career officials in the executive branch to the legislature."
They drive out neutral election officials with terrorism, then replace them with "Big Lie" proponents.
This is a chilling article. "There is a clear and present danger that American democracy will not withstand the destructive forces that are now converging upon it. Our two-party system has only one party left that is willing to lose an election." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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