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Jan 31 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
In vernacular, former president Donald Trump is a traitor, someone who betrayed our Constitution. And still the GOP cannot bring itself to part with him. Even so-called moderate Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) cannot rule out supporting him

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All of this underscores the moral and intellectual depravity that has gripped the Republican Party
It seems elementary, but each and every Republican on the ballot needs to decide if they stand with Trump and the violent insurgents or with the United States and its Constitution. The two are mutually exclusive.
And the media continues to treat this as politics as normal, to interrogate President Biden as to why he has not cultivated more Republican support for his agenda (maybe because the Republicans have lost their grip on reality and now operate in bad faith?)
We have one party that not merely refuses to break with the former defeated president but also refuses to break with the notion that the violent insurgents seeking to overthrow the election were the true patriots. If that’s not disqualification for holding office, what is?

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Rs have no legit explanation for their efforts to limit access to the ballot and to seize election admin from neutral professionals. And tv hosts routinely do a poor job of pressing them on their rationale for subverting our democracy.
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What could possibly be the justification for subversion bills? Republicans such as Ernst need to be asked whether such legislation undermines faith in elections, increases the opportunity for partisan meddling and discourages qualified election workers from serving.
Ernst and many other Republicans make the specious claim Democrats want to “federalize” elections. Voting law both constitutionally and statutorily has long been a federal and state responsibility. Everything from the 15th A to ECA to VRA reaffirmed the federal government’s role
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Dec 28, 2021
The siege mentality has morphed into an ends-justify-the-means style of politics in which lies, brutal discourse and even violence are applauded as necessary to protect “real America.”
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The doctrinal elevation of the “big lie," the increase in violent rhetoric and the effort to rig elections all reflect a heightened desperation by the MAGA crowd.
While lovers of democracy around the world view these developments in horror, we should not lose track of the damage the MAGA movement has wrought to religious values.
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Dec 1, 2021
calling BS on the entire "pro-life" canard. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Set aside for a moment all the questions about personhood and the fact that many religious traditions do not recognize personhood at conception. (Galling arrogance that “everyone” agrees when personhood begins is indicative of a theocratic movement)
focus on antiabortion activists demand that a woman’s right to bodily integrity must be sacrificed for the sake of another. This is a rule that is applicable in no other situation. In what other context is someone’s body, health and daily life commandeered to save another?
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Nov 11, 2021
As essential as the short- and intermediate-term reforms may be, a more fundamental threat looms. This entails confronting the White evangelical crusade to prioritize White power and Christian ideology over democracy.
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Right-wing pseudo-intellectuals, unabashed champions of nativism in right-wing media and cynical Republican politicians have heightened racial resentment and undermined the building blocks of democracy. In many instances, however, they are merely racing to catch up with the mob.
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Nov 10, 2021
Given how few elected Rs are willing to take on the GOP, no one should not be stingy in praising someone who displays the moral courage needed from her party. It is no easy thing to risk one’s career and the support of one’s “tribe” for principle.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
For starters, Cheney does such a good job of portraying Republicans as utterly unfit to hold power that one wonders why she wants voters to put them back in the House majority. This is a central contradiction
She also could have shown real leadership by making a pitch for educating children about our entire history. A party dedicated to truth cannot selectively edit the past. She need not indulge a party that seems determined to ignore the country’s ability to triumph over its faults
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Aug 29, 2021
any hope of depopulating a war-torn country, and ending the suffering there (including the dismal future for millions of women and girls) is not grounded in reality. It belongs with the magical thinking that we'd create a nation state in Afghanistan.
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He was criticized for “abandoning” Afghans; when we stay to rescue them he gets faulted for risking American lives. The insistence that there must have been a painless way to lose a 20-year war, rescue all imperiled Afghans and avoid any more casualties is a fable
We should have pulled out everyone in April! (Would not the Afghan government have crumbled then?)
Just leave a few thousand U.S. troops there! (And attacks would magically cease? One should think long and hard before increasing the number of Gold Star parents.)
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