"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
"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 ..."
"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..."
"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
-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 washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
"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."
"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."
"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."
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."
"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" washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"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."
"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."
"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.
"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."