In all the years I worked in GOP politics, from local races to the White House it never occurred to me that it was even remotely possible that there were people sitting in rooms with me that would one day be in favor of overturning a Presidential election and making the loser
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West, towards home. The home they never got to go back to. They died so we could live in freedom. They were mostly young men with their whole lives ahead of them. What would they say about this? Don’t let anyone tell you for a second that signing an Amicus brief is no big
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Deal. It is a monumental event. It is a declaration of repudiation. A repudiation of American democracy and our birthright to pick our leaders. They are attempting to impose the fired President on the people who fired him. We have never seen anything like it and that is
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disorienting. Yet, we do know what to call this. Don’t we? What would we call this in Germany or France? Trump has let the demons loose. We will be fighting them for decades. There is no certainty about what side will win. Should ours lose let there be no lack of certainty
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About what will be lost. America will be lost and all the assembled generations of Americans watching from heaven will weep. The light of American liberty will have been extinguished.
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"We cannot unlearn who those people are." The truth in those words hits hard. My life and relationships are forever changed.
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Heartbreaking that it includes family, and people who you may have once admired. Such a deep fundamental divide.
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And for history's sake, the
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As LBJ said in his historic Voter Rights Act speech before Congress, to deny a person their vote -- “is not only to do injustice, it is to deny America and to dishonor the dead who gave their lives for American freedom.” Mar 15, 1965 http://www.lbjlibrary.org/lyndon-baines-johnson/speeches-films/president-johnsons-special-message-to-the-congress-the-american-promise …pic.twitter.com/EnmnDK29VS
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