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Feb 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There are about 470 House and Senate seats up for grabs and there are over 7300 state legislator seats total in the US, many of which are elected in even years like 2022. That doesn’t count other “local” elected positions. So, 40 you say? In the whole country?
The GOP chose to drive black voters away 58 years ago and have yet to make any meaningful effort to reverse that. Not sure that tweet is gonna do it.
I’ll let Jackie Robinson, a lifelong Republican, have the last word.
Back in the 1860s and 1870s there were about 1500 elected Republicans in the country, when the nation's population was about 10% of what it is now. I wonder what happened?

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Feb 6
One part of Rogan's impact on American society that I haven't seen mentioned much is the key role he played early on in helping the Proud Boys promote themselves using his platform. Spotify has removed his interviews with PB founder McInnes, like they have with the n-word.
Screen shot is from this article. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
Let's go to the tape.
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Feb 5
It seems highly likely that this was the playbook. This was the strategy the far right street fighters in Portland tried to use to get Trump to bring feds into the city to put down "the violent left."
Here's a Proud Boy allied far right figure in the summer of 2019 telling folks on FB to tag Cruz and Trump in everything they post. Their goal was to get Antifa labeled a "domestic terrorist" group so that federal force could be brought in against them.
Their "1st Amendment" protests were entirely aimed at generating selectively edited footage of "the violent left" that propagandists like Andy Ng0 and Fox News could broadcast into the White House to justify bringing federal force to bear in Portland.
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Feb 5
Yesterday the GOP declared that violently storming the US Capitol to overturn an election is “legitimate political discourse.” Currently, on the WaPo app, it takes 7 scrolls to get to a story that mentions that.
Ah, there we go. That lede is buried in the story on Liz Cheney.
Thank goodness, however, that we get to see Thiessen, one of the most mendacious public figures out there, attacking those who track racist hate groups and McArdle telling us to stop being so outraged…the DAY AFTER the GOP officially condoned political violence.
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Feb 4
A regular reminder that at any time, any time at all, GOP elites in elected office & prominent "conservatives" in the media can disaffiliate from the GOP and urge others to never vote for a Republican again until the party retracts its endorsement of domestic terrorism.
Parties will sometimes endorse things individuals disagree with. That's normal. But also, sometimes parties can step over a clear line that is simply unacceptable. And in that situation, if one does not act, one becomes complicit with that line crossing behavior.
Republicans have agency. It's not just up to the ~70% of Americans who are not Republicans to deal with the problem of the radicalized GOP.
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Feb 4
YAF, an organization on the right edge of the GOP, cut ties with Malkin in 2019 because she was too far right for them.
For context, THIS is just a sampling of the speakers they currently find acceptable. Not exactly a high bar.
Their list of recommended books contains a few doozies as well.
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Feb 3
"Every constitution...naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right." Thomas Jefferson writing to James Madison, 6 September 1789. jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/selected-docum…
For more on Jefferson's anti-originalism, via Peter Onuf's insightful analysis of the subject.
You can agree or disagree with TJ's take on the Constitution (James Madison sure didn't buy it in its entirety in 1789), but anyone who knows anything about the founding era would know that it's not "spitting in the face" of the founders to talk about Constitutions evolving.
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