Seems not everyone has heard of Sadopopulism (Timothy Snyder’s term) Trump voters have always suffered from his policies. They suffer from tax policies that makes them poorer. They suffer when they don’t have health care. They suffer from cuts in education and public welfare. But they love Trump because he tells them beautiful lies. He …
Several people on Twitter asked me about this: Trying to steal the election by means of “faithless electors” is a plan doomed to failure. Electors are not state employees or bureaucrats. Each party, ahead of the election, chooses its slate of potential electors. They pick loyalists who they know and trust, people not likely to …
Questions from the “Ask Teri” button in blue. Others from Twitter. Q: I’m already hearing chatter, both online and with friends, that Kamala Harris isn’t a viable presidential candidate for 2024. Do you have ideas on how can we move our country towards addressing and combating our unconscious (and all too often conscious) bias against women …
First, the Great Election Day Con. Then, I’ll answer questions from Twitter followers and questions that came from the “Ask Teri” button on my blog. I: The Great Election Day Con I expanded my thoughts about what is happening with Trump’s election day lies for Just Security (based at the New York University School of Law). …
🎉🥂🎉🤸 Tomorrow, we get back to work. We have those two senate run-off races in Georgia, then lots of healing and repairing. Apologies to people who have sent me questions. It’s been a crazy week. I’ll try to get to a bunch of them in the next few days. I’ll tell you one story from …
[Click here to read on the Just Security website.] President Donald Trump governs—and manages his own life—as if all the world is a reality show. He writes the script and directs the play—and we all find ourselves trapped in a world of his creation. When Trump succeeds, it is because so many of his followers …
We’re almost on the other side. As I write this, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and North Carolina are counting votes. It definitely wasn’t what we hoped for. A Biden win (which seems highly likely) stops the slide to autocracy. But not winning the Senate puts us in a holding pattern: With a Republican-held Senate and …
Remember when Trump said that if we “get rid of ballots” there won’t be a transition of power? Looks like a few Republicans took that to heart. They’re not stopping with absentee ballots. They’re going after any ballots in Democratic-leaning areas. A group of Republicans filed a petition earlier this week to halt “drive-through” voting …
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[Click here to read on the Just Security website] Two important events relating to the upcoming election occurred on Monday evening, October 26: ● Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion in Wisconsin National Committee v. Wisconsin State Legislature in which he mentioned in dicta “those States [that] also want to be able to definitively …
Last night two things happened thirteen minutes apart. At 4:30 pm California time, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in the Wisconsin dispute over whether late-arriving mail-in ballots should be counted. Kavanaugh’s concurrence raised some eyebrows. Exactly thirteen minutes later, Trump tweeted something so inaccurate that Twitter hid it from view …
