Every Republican active in politics during the Trump era should be remembered based only on where they drew the line.

Did they draw the line at his openly racist immigration platform?

Did they draw the line when Trump mocked a disabled reporter?

Did they draw the line when he was sued for fraud?

Did they draw the line when he said a Hispanic judge can't be fair because of his race?
Did they draw the line when he urged his supporters to shoot Hillary Clinton?

Did they draw the line when he boasted about assaulting women?

Did they draw the line when he encouraged violence against journalists?

Did they draw the line over his ties to Russia?
Did they draw the line when he tore up every global treaty that keeps the world safe?

Did they draw the line when he banned flights from Muslim countries?

Did they draw the line when his administration shredded civil rights for workers, rape survivors, and disabled students?
Did they draw the line when he banned transgender military service because Fox said he should?

Did they draw the line when he forced a tax bill that gave trillions to the rich despite public opposition?

Did they draw the line when he tried to strip 20 million of health care?
Did they draw the line when he called neo-Nazis "very fine people"?

Did they draw the line when he ripped families apart at the border and threw innocent kids in camps?

Did they draw the line when he paid off a porn star?
Did they draw the line when he put an accused rapist on the Supreme Court?

Did they draw the line when he shut down the government for a month because Congress wouldn't fund his wall?

Did they draw the line when he then stole that money from the military budget anyway?
Did they draw the line when his administration relentlessly ignored every ethics law on the books, hiring family, campaigning in government roles, stealing taxpayer money?

Did they draw the line when he attacked pro athletes who kneeled for racial justice?
Did they draw the line when the special counsel found he obstructed justice?

Did they draw the line when he tried to bribe the president of Ukraine to prosecute Joe Biden's family?

Did they draw the line when he fired every public servant who spoke at his impeachment?
Did they draw the line when he tear gassed civil rights protesters at the White House?

Did they draw the line when he sat back and let 350,000 people die in a pandemic?

Did they draw the line when he sabotaged the Postal Service?
Or did they wait, through ALL OF THOSE THINGS, until he's two weeks from leaving and fomented a violent coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol, and decide, wow, I had no idea he could do something like this, all that other stuff was okay but THIS is a bridge too far?
If you're a Republican, then my respect for you directly depends on how long you took, from the day Donald Trump descended down that escalator in 2015, to realize this guy was a fundamental threat to the basic principles of this country.

If you waited until now...sorry. Nope.

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Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.

6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices

https://t.co/qyl4Bt1i5x


PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.

735 rules
740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
0 media queries
11 unique colors
32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
7 unique z-indices

https://t.co/w7oNG5KUkJ


The legacy site's CSS is what happens when hundreds of people directly write CSS over many years. Specificity wars, redundancy, a house of cards that can't be fixed. The result is extremely inefficient and error-prone styling that punishes users and developers.

The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.