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1. Also, although Biden hasn't talked about this much, your vote will decide whether America continues as a democracy or becomes some type of authoritarian state w Trump at the helm. He plans to purge the fed gov of all regular people like FBI Dir. Wrey & install hacks as Actings https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1322883829368016896
2. He'll do it this way, and when it is challenged the Supreme Court will uphold it as a presidential prerogative even though the Constitution clearly says that the Senate MUST approve of presidential appointments for key positions. He's already stuffed https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/21/trump-has-had-an-acting-official-cabinet-level-job-1-out-every-9-days/
3. his cabinet full of temps that could not survive confirmation process bc they lack the requisite experience, skills, temperament, and are too partisan for the jobs. And the reason he wants people like THAT in his government is that they will then do unethical and potentially
4. illegal things. Things like investigating members of the FBI, or even arresting them, because they investigated the Trump campaign for its numerous interactions with Russian agents during the 2016 campaign- something Republicans themselves worried over in realtime in 2016.
5. Read any academic book on how fascism/authoritarianism takes root and takes over a democracy and guess what- this is pretty much step 1, along w the other clear hallmark of Trump's presidency- which is that he has convinced a third of the population, the Republican third, that
6. the entire media system is lying to them. Its very convenient you see, if all Reps think the media system is full of lies & out to get him, bc then all of the terrible & corrupt things it sounds like he is doing, well then they must all be made up! Hussein in Iraq, the senior
7. Kim in North Korea, and Hitler in pre-war Germany will all tell you how instrumental it is to control the information diet of the population you wish to control. Hitler has radio & took over the newspapers of Germany. Trump has Fox News & the full cooperation of the right-wing
8. media eco-system. Move his efforts back 30 years and it almost certainly wouldn't work bc the information control wouldn't be there. And keep in mind, a good chunk of this is bc Rep voters are self-sheltering away from bad info about Trump. These are psychological tricks that
9. people use to "protect" their own party, they will avoid bad news about their own party/politicians (people on both sides do this!) In the case we have here, as I have pointed out before, the situation is much worse bc Trump and the RNC have constructed literally an
10. "alternative facts" universe in which Bill Barr is actually restoring institutional legitimacy to the DOJ & Trump is the most ethically pure person in DC. That it is the GOP that is saving the Rule of Law. This is a story that has been carefully constructed and sold on every
11. right-wing media outlet for months so effectively that if you go into right wing world you will find that people who were not into Trump, or even overtly anti-Trump in 2016- people who worried about Trump's coddling to Russia or possible connections to Putin in 2016, have no
12. internalized this idea that there was some kind of conspiracy against the Trump campaigns led by Obama and Biden and Comey that was geared towards denying Trump the presidency. I mean people like Lindsey Graham! He has gone from 2016 Graham to a man that is convinced of the
13. above. He has literally gaslit himself. And I'm convinced you could hook him up to a lie detector and he actually believes what he is saying. Its like the whole of them are experiencing a powerful group psychosis. But its dangerous bc it means from THEIR perspective, they
14. think they are trying to restore law and order and ethics and the fact is, like you can go to international news and confirm this objectively, the fact is, they are destroying the rule of law in America and getting ready to help a crazy man pull an anti-democratic coup! Its
15. mind-blowing. And you need to understand- this is the ENTIRE party. All of them. This is not the Louie Gohmerts anymore. That is where this started, but bc of Trump- this is now the mainstream of the party. So this is an S.O.S. moment. The Republican Party is totally off the
16. rails, and following a president who I think is the the midst of a full blown breakdown.
Good times.
So call every single person you know, and you THEY know, and you THEY know, and you THEY know....
Good times.
So call every single person you know, and you THEY know, and you THEY know, and you THEY know....
