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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Mar 19
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    Do people who've spent every waking moment since 2016 screaming about the urgent need to preserve our sacred "norms" really not understand that abolishing the Electoral College and packing the Supreme Court would also constitute norm violations

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      1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Mar 19
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        I'm not expressing a view one way or another on the validity of those proposals: just observing that they're not consistent with the popular "But Our Norms!" ethos, which again indicates that it was never really about "norms" per se, but finding a convenient angle to attack Trump

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      1. JBrowne‏ @cvd6262 Mar 19
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        Sacred norms are whatever I like or gets me what I want. Other norms (normatives) are all bad.

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      1. Brazilliance 🌹‏ @TheBeardCaucus Mar 19
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        The people who whine about norms aren't the ones who want to abolish the EC or stuff the court. Two entirely different camps. They've refused to touch the subject of EC until Warren shoved it into the spotlight.

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      1. CA Conservative‏ @Doobydoobydo Mar 19
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        They have only one goal - the accumulation of power. They will necessarily reject the Constitution to accomplish that goal.

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      2. Middling Me‏ @MiddlingMe Mar 19
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        Yeah, agreed. I think this is an odd response to Trump's norm-breaking. I do like the idea of trying to think of ways to restructure the SC in order to depoliticize it permanently. However, packing it with liberal judges just to get back at the GOP is insanity. It wouldn't end.

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      3. Rob Campbell‏ @mjolinor Mar 19
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        I think it would, and it would do it quite badly.

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      2. Art Vandelay  🇵🇸‏ @moriyakari Mar 19
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        Why do none of these people push abolition of the electoral college outside of their presidential campaigns?

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      1. Rob D‏ @dueckman123 Mar 19
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        But they are better and smarter than anyone else so their ideas are righteous

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      1. furious_delecto_a‏ @furious_a Mar 19
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        That assumes self-awareness on their part.

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      1. jalanhi‏ @jalanhi Mar 19
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        The norm is capitalist exploitation, rationalized by racism and obtuse egotism, and abetted by imperial warfare.

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      1. Randy Torres‏ @randytorresnyc Mar 19
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        I only have 2 sacred norms: free Willy and free weed!

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      1. Techni Myoko 🎀‏ @NeoTechni Mar 19
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        They never heard of it before. Up till now they thought we went by the popular vote

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      1. Biden Wrote The Crime Bill‏ @AlexTrevelyan1 Mar 20
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        That was generally liberals talking about norms so they didn't have to talk about actual policies. The left mocked the whole concept of norms.

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      1. Helzy Delecto‏ @Helzbaby Mar 19
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        Good question for the team at Morning Joe who spout "Muh Norms!" for three hours every weekday.

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      1. Circle Game Master 👌 👌 👌 AKA Hate Symbol‏ @Dangerous_Donny Mar 19
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        It all depends on whose "norms" are being violated

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      1. ¡K Smith!‏ @K_Smith_MI Mar 19
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        Maybe they know, but they don't care? Tit for tat, I guess.

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      1. 'Stache‏ @Stache2020 Mar 19
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        Changing the number of supreme Court justices has precedent.

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      1. E.‏ @lnTransit Mar 19
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        They meant bombing and destabilizing the Middle East.

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      1. Chnty‏ @Dreaddcp Mar 19
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        "it's ok when we do it"

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