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[deadpresidents]

Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun

January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.

An excellent and frightening article by Barton Gellman in The Atlantic on how the January 6th Insurrection was a rehearsal for overturning the will of the electorate and that the traitors who supported the attempted coup aren’t even trying to hide the fact that they’re laying the groundwork to do it again.

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Right now we have a political party that is bowing to authoritarian forces, that is systematically lying about the political process, about the election process itself. [...] We have only one party right now that is small-D democratic. We have only one party that is prepared to lose a legitimate election and another one that's prepared to win by sacrificing the essential elements of democracy. And so I am calling out the mainstream of the Republican Party for its lies and for its election subversion in a way that tonally is different from what I could have imagined writing 10 or 20 years ago.

Barton Gellman, on Fresh Air, December 9, 2021

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There are seldom words or time enough to lay a conspiracy theory to rest. Each rebuttal is met with a fresh round of delusions.

  —  How Donald Trump Could Subvert the 2024 Election

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Like so many others, Patterson is doing his best to parse a torrential flow of political information, and he is failing. His failures leave him, nearly always, with the worldview expounded by Trump.

  —  How Donald Trump Could Subvert the 2024 Election

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Frenzied base, spineless leaders make Biden impeachment likely if GOP takes House: Gellman

Barton Gellman, staff writer for the Atlantic, talks with Alex Wagner about his reporting on why a Republican House majority would inevitably lead to impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden as well as members of Biden's administration given the weakness of anyone in GOP leadership to resist the inflamed passions of the party's base.

[campaignoutsider]

Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Kamala Harris 'Veep' Edition)

Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Kamala Harris ‘Veep’ Edition)

Latest in our long-running series Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan opened up the family-size can of worms with yesterday’s piece about the various and sundry deficiencies of Vice President Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris Needs to Get Serious Her shaky standing is a danger to the country given the position she could be called on to fill. President Biden’s poll numbers are bad and Vice…

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Mark Meadows unwittingly outlines a coup

Mark Meadows unwittingly outlines a coup

Donald Trump’s former Chief-of-staff Mark Meadows, who was also a Congressman from North Carolina, has never been the sharpest tool in the shed. He once dumped money into an organization that believes the earth is only 6,000 years old and that humans lived side-by-side with dinosaurs. Now it appears he created a Powerpoint that outlined plans to end our democracy by staging a coup to keep Donald…

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Let us not hedge about one thing. Donald Trump may win or lose, but he will never concede. Not under any circumstance. Not during the Interregnum and not afterward. If compelled in the end to vacate his office, Trump will insist from exile, as long as he draws breath, that the contest was rigged.

Trump’s invincible commitment to this stance will be the most important fact about the coming Interregnum. It will deform the proceedings from beginning to end. We have not experienced anything like it before.

This was extremely prescient. From "What If Trump Refuses to Concede?" by Barton Gellman for The Atlantic