Most of the Resist organizing I've seen is about *maintaining* norms and rule of law where this admin would rather do away with them.
Trump has made me worry about living in the US more than any President in my lifetime...yet losing the norms of democracy would be far worse https://twitter.com/RandyEBarnett/status/865161124995584000 …
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They chose "Resist", not "Defend". Insurgency violates democratic norms which are far more important than exact limits on executive orders.
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Defending democracy sometimes requires resisting slides towards fascism.
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Your doublethink is strong if you can twist "delegitimizing the peaceful transfer of power via elections" into "defending democracy"
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Was Watergate "delegitimizing the peaceful transfer of power via elections"? We want to know if crimes were committed during the campaign.
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I support special prosecutor, Russia investigation, etc. That's not the delegit, it's
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Great. There's plenty we agree on here. A broad movement is going to attract a wide range of factions. I'm not defending outright anarchists
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Trump is in fact my president pending investigation outcomes, and that sucks, and I continue to work against near everything he stands for.
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