This midterm election is a national referendum on the extremist Republican party. Just as we rallied to fight against Trumpism in 2020. The 2022 midterm is about GOPism and it’s white nationalist, race baiting, obstructionist extremism. It’s not just local. It’s our democracy.
This thing has rapidly become the world’s exasperating good news/bad news story. If your head isn’t spinning, you’re not paying attention.
A 🧵on my take on both the good news & the bad, with an emphasis on the things that have changed in the past few days... or minutes.(1/25)
1/ While Democrats argue over which kind of voter appeals will work best in '22 and '24, the GOP is seeking to take over election apparatuses in key states. This means narratives and issue focus won't matter because even if you win you don't win. Do y'all not get this?...
Journalist @bartongellman says there's a serious risk that American democracy, as we know it, will come to an end in 2024. TODAY: We talk with Gellman about about plans that Republican operatives are putting in place to overthrow election results.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @bartongellman says with democracy in peril, his approach to journalism is changing. We're accustomed to journalists not taking sides in a political dispute, "but what we're for, as journalists, is democracy."
Listen: https://t.co/Dglbdt5AJS
I worry how numb we have become to our near brush with authoritarianism - when it is revealed that there was a memo with a 6 step plan for a coup, and it doesn't even get top of the hour news coverage - let alone consequences for all involved. We are in danger of a repeat folks!
I am 67 years old.
I have never seen a young American Indian/Native American woman's disappearance covered like the #gabbypetitio disappearance.
Not once.
That is horribly wrong.