Wrote Klass:
The rational behavior for a dictator or despot is often to silence critics, rule by fear, and generally be a monstrous tyrant. What has held many back is: 1) International norms; and 2) The risk of consequences from foreign powers (almost always in the West).McEwan adds:
When Trump acts like Putin and Kim and MBS are his best friends, it doesn't just legitimize those regimes. It also signals to other authoritarians that there will be no consequences. That international norms no longer matter. You can murder journalists. Trump will do nothing.
This is urgent threat of the Trump presidency: It's not just that he's endeavoring to destroy everything democrats value in the United States, but that he is working in concert with other powerful and tenacious democracy-killers around the globe, like Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, to usher in a new era of despotism.
The Oregon legislature, controlled by Democrats, put forward a bill to create a carbon cap-and-trade system. This is a proven way to reduce atmospheric carbon and reduce potential climate change. In response, the GOP lawmakers fled the state, depriving the Democrats a quorum needed to pass the bill.
Yeah, a similar thing happened in Wisconsin a few years ago, though it was Democrats who fled because the GOP was about to do something nasty to one union or another.
Militiamen are men with guns wanting to enforce their point of view. These are not regulated police officers. These are citizens with guns. They rallied around the GOP lawmakers. Democrats pulled the carbon bill.
Jason Johnson, a journalism professor at Morgan State University, tweeted:
Oregon is just a dry run. Republicans know they are no longer a silent majority. So they'll resort to encouraging extra legal violence and eventually tacit acceptance of terrorism to advance policy. This is the harvest of unchecked white supremacy. GOP embrace of terrorism to intimidate officials when they don't have the votes worked. The DEMOCRATIC run Senate in Oregon has killed their own Cap & Trade bill. THIS WILL HAPPEN again in your state soon!
I had previously reported on credible rape allegations against the nasty guy and that the story amazingly didn’t appear in the mainstream press. Sarah Kendzior tweeted that the story was explicitly removed from the New York Post on orders from upper management.
Elizabeth “I’ve got a plan for that” Warren, candidate for president, offers a plan to protect voting. In introducing it she tweeted in a way that makes a complex issue easier to understand:
Our elections are less secure than your Amazon account. They're under-resourced and undermined by partisan and racist officials who try to stop people from exercising their right to vote.
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