I know it’s not fashionable, but I do not think that filing an amicus brief, even ones as dangerous as this one threatened to be, is engaging in insurrection or rebellion under the 14th amendment.

I think that calling it such would set a very dangerous precedent.

Not seating rightfully elected people is not an answer.

You cannot beat fascism with your own dictator.

They are hypocrites and fools and stooges, and I hope they’re all made to bear the consequences for their actions.

I wish every last lawyer who filed these shitty cases loses their license. I hope they are deplatformed everywhere.

These are, I think, legitimate consequences.

But you should seat people who win their elections.

It is not comfortable that a sizable majority of our countrymen have elected people who do not believe in democracy and are willing to throw their support behind a coup.

But I do not think the way out of our path into fascism involves ignoring the results of elections.

I would also be fine with stripping them of committee assignments or otherwise engaging in acts of censure. I’m not saying we just walk away and say “cool, no harm, no foul.”

All I am saying is that we have to respect the results of elections. Literally all.

I hope they never get served in restaurants. I hope all their staff quit. I want eggs thrown at them in public.

Fuck them, completely.

But respect the election.

It is fucking terrifying trying to navigate through a political landscape where one side doesn’t care who dies or what happens to democracy, because they will blow up any old thing to try and make you get your way.

There is a tendency to try and just say, “fine, then we will blow things up, too!”

But we are not made better off by having two parties who do not care who dies or what happens to democracy.

Now, just to be clear, if they now call for armed revolt? That’s insurrection, and the 14th Amendment applies.