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January 3 - January 13, 2021
refused to allow records of his meetings with foreign leaders hostile...
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer funds are spent at his golf clubs, ...
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His company charges the Secret Service for the golf carts they rent...
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He has refused to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence of the largest attack by a hostile foreign power on the American election system in U.S. history.
openly discussed not leaving office when constitutionally required.
demanded the attorney general of the United States act as his...
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All of these insults and attacks on American democracy have been either cheered by Republ...
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Trump launched his campaign for president with an attack on the legitimacy of the U.S. president.
accusing the U.S. government of being illegal.
the Trump attack was meant to undermine democracy itself and to establish himself as the arbiter of what was legal and illegal.
denouncing a rigged election manipulated by dark forces that included the press.
Trump led the party that once defined itself as the “law and order” party into Nuremberg-rally-like chants of “Lock her up.”
gleefully urges his supporters at rallies to “beat the crap out of” protesters, just “knock the hell…I promise you I will pay for the legal fees.
He’s praised a congressman who attacked a reporter, saying, “Any guy who can do a body slam, he is my type!”
In a speech in front of law enforcement officers, Trump...
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“rough” on gang ...
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When
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a...
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about Vladimir Putin’s record of killing journalists, Trump answered, “Well, I think that our country...
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At a rally before the 2018 midterm elections, when a protester was removed, Trump reacted, “You see these little arms, these little arms?…Where are the Bikers for Trump? Where are the police? Where are the military? Where are—ICE? Where are the border patrol?”
“Trump isn’t inciting violence by mistake, but on purpose. He just told us.”
Trump has launched an assault on the First Amendment unlike any president in history, threatening to use the power of the government to attack
media he dislikes,
as “the enemy of the...
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he has spent his presidency attacking the judicial process that is the essence of American civil liberties.
In the Trump years, Republicans have sent
a message that lying is useful and productive, racism is acceptable, the press is the enemy, and a strong-man authoritarian head of government is the ideal.
these officials made a personal choice to support a man each knew was wildly unqualified to be president.
It’s a familiar pattern,
Adolf Hitler: Getúlio Vargas in Brazil, Alberto Fujimori in Peru, and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, came to power on the same path:
Republicans
tell themselves that the alternative is unacceptable: that if they don’t support and encourage a man who assaults women and lies instinctively, they will soon find themselves facing the red armies of socialism and the
country will start to look like…Sweden.
Republicans are linked to a vast life-support system of lies, terrified that the trut...
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American history has never seen a party so unified in perpetuating a massive fraud.
This isn’t the action of a rogue president like Watergate but a deliberate, calculated decision for a major governing party of the most powerful nation in the history of the world to join hands and deny what they know is true: that Donald Trump is a threat to the country.
This was their moment to stand for something, and they chose to stand for reelection.
every new nonwhite voter in America is a threat to the existence of the Republican Party.
a third of eligible voters will be nonwhite in 2020,
This increase is at least partially linked to immigration and naturalization patterns:
this will mean that the white vote has declined from 77 percent in 2004 to 68 percent in 2020.
in a joint project with the Center for American Progress, American Enterprise Institute, and Brookings Institution, simulations were run of future elections from 2020 to 2036 based on likely demographic trends and past history of performance by each party.
Their model runs three different scenarios, from most favorable to each party to least favorable. Each has Republicans losing the Electoral College from 2024 to 2036.2
For decades during the Jim Crow era, there was no functioning Republican Party in the South, and, yes, segregationists like Mississippi’s senator James Eastland were Democrats.
But to focus on their party label is to miss the point. Whether they had a D or an R by their name meant less than having a big W by their name, W for “white.”
The white power structure has a long history of making it more difficult for blacks to vote, from poll taxes...
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the 1875 Mississippi Plan.
was an effort by whites to reclaim power lost after Reconstruction, when blacks were allowed to vote for the first time.
Barry Goldwater’s opposition to the Civil Rights Act, which made Jim Crow voter-suppression laws illegal, was the
defining moment for the modern Republican Party.
