"We're debating a step that has never been taken in American history" to overrule the voters, says @senatemajldr. "This will be the most important vote I've ever cast."

"Nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale...that would have tipped the entire election," says @senatemajldr.
"We cannot declare ourselves a national board of elections on steroids," adds @senatemajldr. Overruling states and courts would damage the republic forever.
Democracy "would enter a death spiral" and "every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost," says @senatemajldr.
"We cannot keep drifting apart into two separate tribes with a separate set of facts and separate realities," adds @senatemajldr.
"We must not imitate and escalate what we repudiate," says @senatemajldr addressing his fellow senators after objection to #Arizona electoral vote count.
"It would be unfair and wrong to disenfranchise the voters and overrule the courts and states," states @senatemajldr.
"I will not pretend such a vote will be a harmless protest gesture."
"The Congress does not determine the outcome of elections, the people do," says @SenSchumer. "The American people elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to be the next president and vice president of the United States."
"It is a very sad comment on our times that merely accepting the results of an election is considered an act of political courage," says @SenSchumer, referring to "an attempted coup."
The eyes of the world are on this chamber to see if the United States is still a shining example of democracy, adds @SenSchumer. "What messages will we send to those countries where democratic values are under assault?"

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This is a good piece on fissures within the GOP but I think it mischaracterizes the Trump presidency as “populist” & repeats a story about how conservatives & the GOP expelled the far-right in the mid-1960s that is actually far more complicated. /1

I don’t think the sharp opposition between “hard-edge populism” & “conservative orthodoxy” holds. Many of the Trump administration’s achievements were boilerplate conservatism. Its own website trumpets things like “massive deregulation,” tax cuts, etc. /2

https://t.co/N97v85Bb79


The claim that Buckley and “key GOP politicians banded together to marginalize anti-Communist extremism and conspiracy-mongering” of the JBS has been widely repeated lately but the history is more complicated. /3


This tweet by @ThePlumLineGS citing a paper by @sam_rosenfeld and @daschloz on the "porous" boundary between conservatives, the GOP and the far-right is relevant in this context.


This is a separate point but I find it interesting that Gaetz, like Roy Moore did In his failed Senate campaign, disses McConnell. What are their actual policy differences? MM supported taking health care away from millions, a tax cut for the rich, conservative judges, etc. /5

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