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Trump Is No Longer the Problem. His Army of Followers Is
Slate ^ | 11/20/2020 | Dahlia Lithwick

Posted on 11/23/2020 8:27:49 AM PST by Tench_Coxe

"....Indeed, if one were inclined to worry, this current manifestation of legal nihilism, maximalism and nullification are far more dangerous than the version we learned to live with for the past four years, because this new one is now operating separate and apart from Trump. We don’t have to wait to see what happens when Josh Hawley or Tom Cotton runs as a “competent” authoritarian in 2024. Even without a formal figurehead, competent authoritarianism is seeping up from below. It’s coming from Trump supporters who deny the legitimacy of the election, state officials who are pushing false claims, lawyers making laughable arguments. Trump is almost immaterial to them. The real problem is the emboldened Trumpists who refuse to give over, and Ben Sasse and Mitt Romney notwithstanding, that behavior goes from the people who attend the MAGA rallies all the way up to the top of the GOP"

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To: KobraKai

I really doubt that.


41 posted on 11/23/2020 8:47:42 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesi)
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To: DannyTN

It is SOOOO true.


42 posted on 11/23/2020 8:47:50 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Trump never was the problem. The left’s bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome was the problem.


43 posted on 11/23/2020 8:48:11 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: clearcarbon

It’ll take a Seven Nation Army to hold us back!


44 posted on 11/23/2020 8:48:14 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: headstamp 2
They are trying to crush the movement now. The GOPe is fine with this by the way.

Fine with it? They've been PRAYING for it every day Trump has been president. He is their worst nightmare. And we must be extinguished or brought back in line.

45 posted on 11/23/2020 8:50:49 AM PST by montag813
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To: Tench_Coxe

Hawley an authoritarian? Only because he wants to limit the authority of the government over the elected and the populace.


46 posted on 11/23/2020 8:50:59 AM PST by steve8714
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To: Tench_Coxe

I am a soldier of TRUMP army...


47 posted on 11/23/2020 8:52:02 AM PST by nick0786bazpur
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To: Tench_Coxe

Reading this I’m reminded of the meme of Trump saying, it’s not me, it’s you; I’m just in the way. I hope we are a problem for them and their ideas. I hope we’re a bigger problem than even Dahlia imagines.


48 posted on 11/23/2020 8:52:15 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: SpaceBar

The author is NOT EVEN AN AMERICAN! “Canadian citizen”!!!


49 posted on 11/23/2020 8:52:54 AM PST by montag813
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To: Tench_Coxe

Ahhh, the deplorables strike again.


50 posted on 11/23/2020 8:53:36 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Yes, how dare we refuse to roll over for fraud?


51 posted on 11/23/2020 8:54:11 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: polymuser

I don’t call myself a conservative any more. William Kristol is a conservative. I’m for the people, against the tyranny to come, against interventionism but for the defense. For the decentralizing of government and the return to the people of power over their own lives. Call that whatever you may.


52 posted on 11/23/2020 8:55:27 AM PST by steve8714
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To: Flick Lives

Meanwhile, Larry Hogan is an ACTUAL authoritarian angling for 2024. Will they disparage him as well?


53 posted on 11/23/2020 8:55:54 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: steve8714

I call myself now an Economic Nationalist.


54 posted on 11/23/2020 8:55:59 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: headstamp 2

The movement is growing by the day, and pissed, and armed.


55 posted on 11/23/2020 9:00:03 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Damn right we are.


56 posted on 11/23/2020 9:00:13 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (This is all a Soros funded communist insurrection! )
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To: Tench_Coxe

“Everyone must think the same. It is the only way to save the world.”

“Who decides what everyone should think?”

“Why, me, of course.”

“What if you’re wrong?”

“Off to the camps with you, you Conservative!”


57 posted on 11/23/2020 9:00:14 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: SpaceBar

The left has great fear all their lies and dirty tricks failed the brain washing media failed they have nothing left.
They failed with the election lost seats in congress didn’t take the senate fail is the norm for them.
All the next elections will be a blood bath for them they failed to gain all the power needed to control the country.


58 posted on 11/23/2020 9:00:41 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

we learned to live with for the past four year. That is the funniest thing I have read all day.


59 posted on 11/23/2020 9:01:42 AM PST by pas
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To: steve8714

Bill Kristol is a neoconservative — interventionist, warmonger, empire builder.


60 posted on 11/23/2020 9:02:00 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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