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It was a big smoking fire in north carolina that was caught. the major electoral screwup in new york city was caught. guess what? they were in our view. there's some ways in which the patchwork of election laws in this country helps. there are local officials who stepped up to the plate in 2020 when our election was tested by a president who wanted to steal it. those officials withstood the pressure. some didn't. ultimately, we do need some national standards. a basic standard, basic things people expect, when those votes are counted. a set of national standards like proposed in the voting rig...
The Atlantic Trump leaves behind a wounded nation, and it will take time to heal. January 20, 2021 So what if he was bad at it? The five years of the Trump era—which began with his descent down the gilded escalator in Trump Tower in 2015 and are ending with a massive military presence in the nation’s capital to protect the transfer of power to his successor—brought a sustained assault on self-government. This assault was most often futile, almost always buffoonish, and, as the conversion of the seat of the federal government into an armed fortress demonstrates, unquestionably real. Thro...
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Of the house after a huge mandate to end the iraq war. 2006. democrats come in. win on the iraq war. first thing that happens. george bush says we will surge. more troops in there. the base goes nuts. they say you have to defund the war. at that point there were two parallel tracks. the supplemental and budgeting process. she could have held the regular budgeting process hostage to the supplemental. the base want herd to do it more than anything. justifiably so, i think. they wouldn't do it. that is the relationship the democratic party has the to the base. embodied. we're seeing the exact rev...