tRump is mounting a coup and republicans are letting him.

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Enough is enough: Republicans' fealty to Trump imperils America itself



The Republican party has spent four years enabling Donald Trump: backing up his lies, defending his most egregious misbehaviors, shattering longstanding democratic norms to keep his, and by extension their, iron grip on power. But by refusing to push him to concede an election he clearly lost, they’re truly following him off a cliff – and threatening to take America with them.
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But there was some question of when enough would be enough. Surely there was some line the president could cross that would directly imperil America itself and make Republicans finally say: enough. Now, the president is mounting what in any developing country would be called an attempted coup. He is spreading outright lies about America’s system of free and fair elections, claiming he won when he didn’t. His sycophantic legal team is pulling issues out of thin air to undermine the American system of voting. He is wielding his power to try to install himself as an unelected leader. He is refusing to concede so that he might find some way to illegally grab power. And Republicans are letting him.
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America is as much an idea as it is a land mass; our democracy is an agreed-upon set of rules and norms, many of them written, but many of them customary. Americans have always sought to make the rules fairer, and to extend more rights and privileges to a wider swath of people: that’s what the civil rights movement did, and the women’s movement, too. But the goal was to get in on the system, not to undermine its legitimacy.
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What Trump and his Republican enablers are doing is a wholly different thing. They aren’t saying that the system is unfair because it excludes some people who deserve to be a part of it. They aren’t even saying that they lost because the rules were unfair. They are saying that one side cheated, that the system is rigged. Once that cat is out of the bag – once you sow widespread distrust in the entire concept of free and fair American elections – it’s awfully hard to put it back in.

When the president refuses to concede, it also has a real, tangible impact on the nation’s future.
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It’s sad and stunning that it has even come to this: that the integrity of the American electoral process is at stake, and many of the most powerful and prominent members of Republican party still declare fealty to their Dear Leader, even at the expense of the nation. This isn’t just about one party acting unscrupulously because they’re sore losers. This is how democracy itself comes undone. - The Guardian

[Proud liberal 80]

1. Damn, he really does look like a turtle...lol

[Sogo]

8. LOL!! My first thought, too!!

[Earthshine2]

10. In particular, Cecil Turtle from Loony Tunes

[Bettie]

2. Not "letting" him, encouraging, enabling,

collaborating.

This is by design and they are all in on it.

[OLDMDDEM]

4. I think

he is going to take this to the USSC because he is losing all his cases in the states. Since he has three appointed associate justices on the court, he believes they will give him the election. I believe the USSC would not take the case and he would look like a neutered puppy.

[lagomorph777]

9. +1 I wouldn't have agreed, two days ago.

But Justice Beerbong and Justice Robber have made remarks in the ACA case that seem to show some concern for their reputation.

[OLDMDDEM]

11. Credibility

There is very little credibility among the last three justices. Their one saving grace is ignoring any appeal of Dumpy's law suits.

[msongs]

5. and who is stopping him, just a few court losses nt

[Cartaphelius]

6. And the Democrats are stoping him?

[stillcool]

7. Jill Filipovic, the author of the piece..

is very impressive...to me. Thanks for the link.