Definitely an all time “worst person you know just made a great point” moment.
There’s obvious connection between today and the 2000 election’s Bush v Gore court case. I suspect he doesn’t see it that way, and there’s a kernel of truth: applying political muscle to cause a clear coin-flip election to land your way isn’t the same as riling up a mob after a clear loss. It’s still categorically the same though.
Goes to show the current authoritarianism in the GOP isn’t new. What’s new is scope, and what enables it is the lack of guardrails within the party.
That said, the upcoming threat needs to be taken seriously, and I’m willing to bite my tongue for just about anything that helps push back.
Definitely an all time “worst person you know just made a great point” moment.
There’s obvious connection between today and the 2000 election’s Bush v Gore court case. I suspect he doesn’t see it that way, and there’s a kernel of truth: applying political muscle to cause a clear coin-flip election to land your way isn’t the same as riling up a mob after a clear loss. It’s still categorically the same though.
Goes to show the current authoritarianism in the GOP isn’t new. What’s new is scope, and what enables it is the lack of guardrails within the party.
That said, the upcoming threat needs to be taken seriously, and I’m willing to bite my tongue for just about anything that helps push back.
Good thing they did both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
So easy to forget how last generation’s conservatives were doing the exact same shit as this generation’s conservatives.