Minority Rule

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Timothy Synder is a Yale University history professor and the author of the excellent short book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. He's an expert on the history of fascism and totalitarianism and in the latest issue of his newsletter he describes how the United State in on a fast track to tyranny.
The scenario then goes like this.
  • The Republicans win back the House and Senate in 2022, in part thanks to voter suppression.
  • The Republican candidate in 2024 loses the popular vote by several million and the electoral vote by the margin of a few states.
  • State legislatures, claiming fraud, alter the electoral count vote.
  • The GOP House and Senate accept that altered count.
  • The losing candidate becomes the president.
  • We no longer have "democratically elected government."
No one is seeking to hide that this is the plan.  It is right there out in the open. The prospective Republican candidates for 2024, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley, are all running on a big lie platform.  If your platform is that elections do not work, you are saying that you intend to come to power some other way.  The big lie is designed not to win an election, but to discredit one.  Any candidate who tells it is alienating most Americans, and preparing a minority for a scenario where fraud is claimed.  This is just what Trump tried in 2020, and it led to a coup attempt in January 2021.  It will be worse in January 2025. 9/11 led us to the invasion of Iraq, the foreign policy disaster that marked our century.  1/6 leads us to a catastrophe on that scale, but inside our own country.
Via BoingBoing

DL Open Thread Monday June 7th 2021

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In today's news, some guy from Dover is getting some national attention for getting the Mandalorian Party recognized by the Dept of Elections because the new loves stupid bullshit. "Digital producers" on Gannett’s Atlantic Digital Optimization (DOT) team have decided to unionize.  Good for them, I suppose. John Carney's take on legalizing marijuana is straight out of 'Reefer Madness'. I'm beginning to believe that Carney is just not that smart. And speaking of dim bulb elected... Joe Manchin reviews are coming in.

Shorter Joe Manchin

The terrorists who are trying to end voting must be included in the effort to stop the terrorists who are trying to end voting.

Congratulations Coons! Your Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus is Working Wonderfully!!

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Manchin says he will vote against Democrats’ sweeping voting rights bill

Emma Newburger@EMMA_NEWBURGER
  • Sen. Joe Manchin said he will vote against the sweeping federal election reform bill introduced by congressional Democrats.
  • The decision by the moderate West Virginia Democrat essentially guarantees the legislation will fail to pass in Congress.
  • The bill, also known as S.1, would require a minimum of 10 GOP votes to move past the filibuster and move to a final vote on passage.

Coonsian

I would add Chris Coons and Joe Biden to the list of Dems who don't grasp the reality of what Republicans are trying to do, but otherwise,  Michelle Goldberg does…

Lessons Learned

These were fun stories while they lasted:
Jan 29, 2021 — 'Played' by GOP in the Obama era, wary Democrats and Biden go big ...
“We have learned from past crises that the risk is not doing too much.