Something I’ve stressed in talks and interviews since the election is that we will not have restored the peaceful transfer of power in the U.S. until a Republican president willingly hands power to a Democratic president.
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Marc Elias
While it may feel like the 2024 election was normal, that is only because Trump won. There were no false claims of fraud, because he won. On Jan. 6, 2025, there will be no violent insurrection, and Congress will certify the count not because of a new law, but only because Trump won.
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It needs to be challenged.
The deliberate sabotage of the legislative process has left people with no real belief in self-government.
Without any appreciation for the consequences of dictatorship, perhaps it’s easy to be disengaged
If you defend the project, you can justify extraordinary measures to protect it.
But if you defend the procedures, you're then stuck with them or else you're "just as bad".
The GOP has a Maxwell's Demon approach to government power. And, for some curious reason, Democrats pretend this isn't happening. Because "shrill" or some such nonsense.
Should be obvious by now that isn't happening.
Even Elias is saying it!! What gives??
Regardless, Congress doesn't have to listen to SCOTUS.
And yeah, it would be an uphill battle. Would you prefer giving up?
Thoughts?
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when I see Democrats win two consecutive national elections in which a Democratic President hands the reins over to a duly elected Democrat, then I'll know the Republican Party is done for and we are out of this conservative cycle.
In this it reminds me of how South Africa took only 1 election to start its downslide into an extremist version of itself
At some point it will all come crashing down, but it won't be done in by any Democratic hand, but by rightwingers themselves