The Day After Election Day (Laurence Tribe recommended read)

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Laurence Tribe
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Every line of this important warning is worth reading.

Stay calm if you can, but don’t turn away from the alarming truth.

Only the truth can keep us free.

Opinion | The Day After Election Day
Current and former Trump administration officials are worried about what might happen on Nov. 4.
nytimes.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/trump-election-officials.html

There will of course be an Election Day — and it could be one of tumult, banners colliding, incidents at the polls and attempted hacks galore. More likely than not, it will end without a winner named or at least generally accepted.

America will probably awaken on Nov. 4 into uncertainty. Whatever else happens, there is no doubt that President Trump is ready for it.

I’ve spent the last month interviewing some two dozen officials and aides, several of whom are still serving in the Trump administration. The central sources in this story are or were senior officials, mainly in jobs that require Senate confirmation. They have had regular access to the president and to briefings at the highest level. As a rule, they asked for anonymity because they were taking a significant professional and, in some cases, personal risk in speaking out in a way that Mr. Trump will see as disloyal, an offense for which he has promised to make offenders pay.

Several of them are in current posts in intelligence, law enforcement or national security and are focused on the concurrent activities of violent, far-right and white supremacy groups that have been encouraged by the president’s words and actions. They are worried that the president could use the power of the government — the one they all serve or served within — to keep himself in office or to create favorable terms for negotiating his exit from the White House. Like many other experts inside and outside the government, they are also concerned about foreign adversaries using the internet to sow chaos, exacerbate divisions and undermine our democratic process.

Many of those adversaries, they report, are already finding success in simply amplifying and directing the president’s words and tweets. And they’re thoroughly delighted, a former top intelligence official told me, “at how profoundly divided we’ve become. Donald Trump capitalized on that — he didn’t invent it — but someday soon we’re going to have figure out how to bring our country together, because right now we’re on a dangerous path, so very dangerous, and so vulnerable to bad actors.”

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1. ALARMING. A MUST READ. one part I must have missed

The current composition of the House, in which Republicans control more state delegations even though Democrats are in the majority, favors Trump.

The House would vote by state?

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2. Must read

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3. Kick

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4. This is important *sigh*

Last kick from me