Too weird from the party that spent 4 years making wild accusations about Russian collusion based on Russian disinfo & not accepting an election. Note: Republicans have set nothing on fire & smashed exactly zero windows. /1

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They have also not beat up any elderly people, dragged anyone from their cars or destroyed any public property. Nor are they likely to.

However, continuing to deny the obvious irregularities we all saw on election night, won’t help. This is the first time in my /2

nearly 50 years that ballot counting was stopped. Commentators were all shocked & confused that night.

You fix this by answering the questions & transparency. Republicans by nature seek information. Our side coined “facts don’t care about your feelings.” /3

At worst I see this going down like Nixon v Kennedy. Republicans didn’t riot then & aren’t likely to now. Instead, we organize, mobilize & come back stronger. Like the Tea Party. Who also never rioted. But ran the table in 2010. /4

Democrats will overplay their hand again, thinking they have a mandate that doesn’t really exist. A smart GOP will take the policy portfolio introduced by Trump, focused on the prosperity & security of Americans first. Then make a case to the American people. /5

A dumb GOP will not embrace this resulting in another parallel organization rising & primarying their more progressive members. We were the opposition for 8 years. The muscle memory is still there. And technically we were the opposition for the last four years. /6

Even with the White House we had to fend off constant attacks from the corporate media, social media, the coastal elites, Hollywood & academia. Yet lost not a toss up down ballot & have a legit path to keep the Senate. /7

We DO NOT need to accept a strategy of managed decline, transnationalism & multiculturalism. Millions of people flock here for the American Dream. Not some progressive dystopia.

President Trump showed us that dream is alive & well for the first three years of his admin. /8

And by the quick recovery in states that managed the pandemic in a balanced way. UE in GA was back below 5% last month. I recently visited Savannah & there were help wanted signs everywhere. I also can’t see a single small business missing from my own community. /9

Oh, we have always been better at telling our right wing when they go too far. The left might want to consider doing a better job. They literally have flagrant anti-Semites in the halls of Congress. The right would never accept that. We got rid of Steve King for winking at /10

the identitarian right. Those morons abandoned Trump & the Trump coalition long ago. Their ostensible leader endorsed Biden & promotes Ilhan Omar for goodness sake.

Destruction by leftist revolutionaries this summer is in the 10s of millions of dollars. /11

DO NOT let them lie to you. Chin up, nose to the grindstone & up the ground game. Our ideas are better & that is the case we make. And we will do it on the up & up. /end