Please Stop Thinking This Will Be a Fair Election

[babylonsister]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-abc-interview-foreign-interference-849062/

June 17, 2019
2:21PM ET
Please Stop Thinking This Will Be a Fair Election
President Trump declared his willingness to betray the country, and Republicans are ready to help
By Jamil Smith

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Consider some of the rhetoric calling Trump “traitorous” too much? Too bad. I mean, we live in a time when the Pentagon deliberately keeps the president out of the loop with regard to U.S. countermeasures against Russian power grids, for fear that he will let sensitive details slip to top Russian officials as he already has in the past. But Trump’s willingness to undermine American democracy is not merely disloyal because of his literal encouragement of foreign interference in our elections.

The untold number of lives lost and the scars borne by people like Rep. John Lewis can’t allow us to say that voter suppression is “un-American.” Unfortunately, it is anything but. Americans still do not have the full protections of the Voting Rights Act, thanks to the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court decision. We should take Trump’s eagerness to accept foreign help and the Republican will to assist him within this context, because like the act of blocking the ballot, their acts vandalize the very purpose of democracy. For all their carrying on about migrants, they sure are in a hurry to give away a say in America’s future to foreign actors, some of whom may even be adversaries.

That is why it is difficult to get caught up in Trump’s gaudy redesign of Air Force One , or even his possibly imaginary Obamacare replacement that he teased during the ABC special. It was going to be tough to make that newsworthy in an age when his administration is building concentration camps for immigrant children. But perhaps news is where you make it.

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One of our holes in the boat, as it were, is that the sitting United States president can remain in office, signing bills and even riding on Air Force One, after he has said the kinds of things that he has. Trump told the nation, on television, that he plans to become a criminal. That he steadfastly denies being a crook in the past, whether financial or political, matters not. Every single claim of “no collusion!” was zeroed out by this interview. We now lay in wait for he and his campaign to collude, whether with Russia or the Saudis or the UAE, or whichever foreign power may seek to sway Trump toward their preferred policy outcome.

This president has no definable moral code to speak of beyond his own personal profit and glorification. In that respect, he is a natural Republican for this day and age. That we know them to be this way, however, does not mean that we should merely shrug our shoulders at their depravity.

The president’s behavior is indeed “disgraceful,” if no longer “shocking.” He and his party do know “right from wrong,” of that I’m sure. They’re grown. So treat them as such.

[demtenjeep]

1. This +100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

"This president has no definable moral code to speak of beyond his own personal profit and glorification."


this is the key!

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I thought your thoughts the night Hillary lost the Electoral College.

[VOX]

3. This is why IMPEACHMENT NOW is critical. No, of course it doesn't get rid of 45, BUT...

The process will at least get all the criminality on record, and will clearly show that most Americans will not tolerate this lawlessness.

"Party over country" runs both ways. Given all of what's known about the lawlessness of 45 and his lieutenants, and that not a damned thing has been done to secure our elections from hostile-power influence, the 2020 election is destined to be a complete maelstrom of shit, and there's no telling what the result would be.

IMPEACH NOW.

[Grasswire2]

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[uponit7771]

5. THANK YOU !!!

[Iggo]

6. Right after I start. (n/t)

[TwilightZone]

7. I don't think anyone on our side of the aisle thinks it will be a fair election.

We need to ensure that the margins are large enough so that it doesn't matter. In 2016, that could have been accomplished with a small increase in Dem turnout in three states.

[struggle4progress]

8. "If you are the big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down"