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Jun 3 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
"The “fight for America,” as Brooks puts it, is premised on the idea that Republican election losses are intolerable by definition, even if they’re procedurally legitimate."

#DemocracyInDanger
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"What will the institutions of democracy do when Republican officials simply refuse to concede Democratic victories?

The question isn’t as far-fetched as it may seem, and the reckoning may be coming far sooner than most expect."
~@DavidOAtkins

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"Republican Party operatives instructing activists to become paid election operatives in Democratic precincts and giving them tools to collaborate with party lawyers to contest the validity of votes."

#DemocracyInDanger
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“Former president Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election are evolving into a movement that may be a more potent threat to democracy: one that places his supporters in elected roles with oversight of elections at the local and state levels.”

"Steve Bannon has made it his mission to recruit people who don’t believe in democracy to serve as municipal poll workers."

#DemocracyInDanger
"The prospect of this democratic collapse is not remote. People with the motive to make it happen are manufacturing the means.

Given the opportunity, they will act.

They are acting already."
~@bartongellman

See 🧵
News org @Reuters has documented more than 900 threatening or hostile messages sent from Trump supporters aimed at election officials in a series of investigative reports.

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"the idea that elections should be subject to overturning at the state level is becoming increasingly entrenched among GOP state legislators across the country."
~@ThePlumLineGS

#DemocracyInDanger
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Jun 6
"Never mind that the same factions who have argued that mask-wearing and books about Tommy’s two mommies are unacceptably traumatizing for young children are now implying that kindergartners should be kitted out with makeshift body armor."
~@crampell

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"Perhaps, with unlimited funds and an indifference to child psychology, every school could be converted to something akin to a maximum-security prison.

Perhaps a moat and a round-the-clock occupying army ..."

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"By the logic of Republicans resisting firearm restrictions, the only way to preserve innocent life is to also “harden” all those other “soft” sites that have been targeted before..."

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Jun 6
What does GOP policy protect: Our kids or the guns?

GOP policy protects the guns.

At the expense of our children's lives.
The GOP LOOSENS gun laws after shootings:

“Seven of the deadliest mass shootings in the history of the US happened in the past decade.

And four of those shootings, including the Uvalde shooting, happened in Texas."

#Uvalde
#TexasSchoolMassacre
You know how those Uvalde cops stood around & did NOTHING...

while the children of Robb Elementary were being gunned down?
😡

The GOP is preventing gun safety laws from even being discussed...

while American children are being gunned down.
😡
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Jun 6
"Our democracy doesn’t work when the will of the majority is consistently ignored (repudiated, even) by a minority out of step with the nation’s views and values.

This takes place primarily with four antidemocratic tools:..."
~@JRubinBlogger

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Antidemocratic tools of the minority:

-the electoral college
-thinly populated, overwhelmingly White states’ disproportionate power in Senate
-the filibuster, gives minority party a veto over the majority
-lifetime tenure of Supreme Court justices
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"The problem is not lily-livered Democrats or “polarization."

Our democracy is being thwarted again and again by an increasingly radical, antidemocratic GOP driven by white grievance and nostalgia for a pre-civil-rights America."

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May 24
"If the court overturns Roe...

It will also signal the dramatic expansion of religious authority into far-flung corners of American life, as conservative Christians impose their moral ideas on the general public."

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"Part of [Christians'] objection to the legalization of abortion was the way the court simply assumed that the US was a secular, civic republic.

Roe marked the culmination of a 10-year interrogation of the role of religious groups within American society"
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"Through these cases, the court rejected the stance of Christian religious groups...

By the time the court took up the question of abortion, religious conservatives had grown outraged that their moral positions received no consideration."

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May 23
" House GOP leadership is playing footsie with a rancid and racist conspiracy theory with a history of inciting mass murder...

Is there a way — any way at all — to make the Republican Party pay a political price for any of it?"
~@ThePlumLineGS

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"Rep. Elise Stefanik, the House Republican chairman who previously endorsed a version of that “great replacement theory,” recently doubled down on it, even after Buffalo. So apparently... the answer to that question is no."

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"The [@ProjectLincoln] ad singles out three major companies — PricewaterhouseCoopers @PwC, Home Depot @HomeDepot and the Altria Group @AltriaNews — and rips them for donating to Stefanik.

Watch it here:"

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May 17
"Elected Republicans haven’t merely inspired far-right extremists. They have become far-right extremists.

A new report shows just how extensively the two groups have intertwined."

#GOPDomesticTerrorists
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"The study, released on Friday by ... a decades-old group that tracks right-wing extremism, found that more than 1 in 5 Republican state legislators in the United States were affiliated with far-right groups."

#GOPDomesticTerrorists
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“The ideas of the far right have moved pretty substantially into the mainstream...

... not only as the BASIS FOR ACTS OF VIOLENCE [emphasis mine] but as the basis for [GOP] public policy.”

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