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Professor, author of "Our Own Worst Enemy." Curmudgeon. Cat guy. Democracy enthusiast. Board of Contributors, @USAToday, Contributing Writer, @TheAtlantic.

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    Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 27 Aug 2020

    Tom Nichols Retweeted Louis Ingenthron

    I agree with @baseballcrank that senior people skate on the Hatch Act all the time. But 1. No one has done it with such open contempt for the law as this WH; and 2. His answer is...what? Just leave it as a random cudgel against, say, ordinary Federal workers? /1https://twitter.com/LouisIngenthron/status/1299140482371661825 …

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    Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron
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    Worse, outlets like National Review are straight up applauding the violations as a promise kept to drain the swamp by breaking laws in plain sight. America is in grave danger. https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1298969269728878592?s=20 …
    5:28 PM - 27 Aug 2020
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      2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 27 Aug 2020

        The whole point is not to let the USG become a campaign funded by the public and to prevent public service from being cronyism. But "well, they all do it, just repeal it for senior people" will *institutionalize* both of those. /2

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      3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 27 Aug 2020

        The answer to "no one punished Sibelius for crossing that line once" is not "so let's hold the f*cking RNC on the South Lawn." It's exhausting keeping up with the constant rationalizations for lawbreaking from people who know damn well they should be fighting it. /3x

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      1. Neeners777 SHOUT YOUR ABORTION‏ @marygribbin809 27 Aug 2020
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

        protests on D.C. city property near the White House Thursday night. Refuse Fascism is holding a #TrumpPenceOutNOW rally down the street in Black Lives Matter Plaza & The Party Majority PAC, founded by former Clinton aides, is organizing a #ThePeoplesHouse demonstration nearby.

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      2. Charles P. Pierce‏Verified account @CharlesPPierce 27 Aug 2020
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

        It’s an affront. That’s an opinion. It’s a crime. That’s a fact.

        3 replies 9 retweets 83 likes
      3. Justin Read‏ @imageflood 27 Aug 2020
        Replying to @CharlesPPierce @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

        I thought Presidents swore to uphold the laws of the United States of America. I dunno, like all of them.

        0 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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      2. RenoSparksCow‏ @RenoCow 27 Aug 2020
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

        If conservatives were outraged that Bill Clinton rented out the Lincoln Bedroom to his donors, then they should also be outraged that tonight Donald Trump is shamelessly hosting a partisan event on the White House lawn

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. Scott Zimmer‏ @zimmersco72 27 Aug 2020
        Replying to @RenoCow @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

        I was then. I am now.

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      1. Valbaby214‏ @valchk214 27 Aug 2020
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

        It’s making me sick. This isn’t right at all. I can’t believe I’m seeing this.

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      1. Chris‏ @ccsnash22 27 Aug 2020
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        As a former ordinary federal worker, I was told a couple of years ago that we could not put Girl Scout cookie signups on our doors. That is what ethics rules have seemingly become.

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      1. John Starbuck‏ @JCStarbuck3 27 Aug 2020
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        It’s a deliberate breaking of norms, laws, and eventually American democracy. And a demonstration of the inability to prevent tyranny in a “nation of laws.”

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