Armed men are showing up at elected officials houses and Republican election officers in Georgia are begging for GOP leadership to stop all this ""before someone gets killed"—to no avail. The clownishness of the attempt does not make it funny or harmless.https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1335766211687313409 …
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I've seen three versions of dismissing the alarm. "This is always the way it is" (not sure how this is comforting but it's not even all true); "It's not technically a coup" (true, but we're not contesting a grade here) and "he will lose." (The path we're on is the same...).
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This is exactly right. (I did not try to get into that in the piece because it was already long.) Yes, minority rule is not at all unprecedented in this country, but no we have not fully grappled with it—and that makes the need for alarm, now, more urgent.https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1335956395682902016 …
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More here. What's going on isn't just some legal, if distasteful, wrangling. It's a blatant—and yes, incompetent and buffoonish—attempt to steal an election, and that effort is being supported and allowed by a party that is entrenching minority rule.https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1335973811255209987 …
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All of that can be true, but not change the substance of the threat we're facing, especially with all the structural, minority-rule entrenchment.https://twitter.com/umanoid/status/1336026581278593025 …
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Look, this is *today* and the Republican leadership is not standing up to defend an R governor while GOP election officials are begging for this to stop before "someone gets killed" & armed protesters are showing up at elected officials houses. This isn't just some norm-bending.pic.twitter.com/jbCkrEyAMe
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I've just published a strong counterargument to my essay about the seriousness of Trump's attempts. Go read
@Pinboard's worthy rebuttal titled "This was the Most Ordinary of Elections." (Counters will be a regular feature of@insight, my own newsletter!) https://zeynep.substack.com/p/is-this-a-coup-introducing-the-counter …pic.twitter.com/PssI3SLH7n
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Another counterargument to mine from
@dandrezner who highlights "the near-total absence of violence or mobilization toward violence" (well, kinda true enough... yet) and says Republicans are not lockstep (I think the elected ones are pretty lockstep!)https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/07/its-not-coup-its-not-even-bad-coup/ …Show this thread -
So, yeah, nothing to see here.https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1336763665580765187 …
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Yes, very normal. Back to bipartisan civility.https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1337135543373733889 …
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Can we have accurate headlines? It may be “almost certain” to fail but it’s an attempt to steal the election—one that is not being condemned by Republican leadership, and supported by many, and that should be the top story everywhere instead of this normalizing tone.https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/1338116738064527360 …
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Normalizing of the idea that making it easier to vote is "partisan" just happens now. Even if it benefited one party more, the right to vote cannot be considered a partisan threat. But it's not even true, as the last election showed.https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/1338189444311101441 …
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