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Anonymous wrote:Trump‘s rambling’s about wrecking the elections is a red herring. He has no interest in who wins the midterms.

Don’t get sucked into this nonsense story. Keep an eye on his outrageous corruption, abuses of power, and DHS actions.

It isn't a red herring. None of it is a red herring. It is all part of the Fascist blitz attack.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this the moment when conservatives in Congress wake up from the nightmare??? Are they going to remember that they took an oath? Are they going to remember that, under the Constitution, states run elections? Are they going to bristle at the weaponization of the federal police?

Or are they going to say, "duh, he's just joking" and then "you have no idea how frightening it is to contradict him" while they support him unanimously?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/trump-nationalize-elections.html

where are all of those conservative "strict constitutionalists?

We became Never-Trumpers and started voting for Democrats.

Sometimes it seems like we’re more invested in the Democrats beating MAGA than the Democrats are, themselves. Stop demonizing voters and start recruiting them. Instead of telling voters what they want, ask them. If someone disagrees with you on something, instead of portraying them as stupid/evil, find something you can agree on. Stop dividing Americans into subgroups, labeling them, and pitting them against each other, and start treating them as fellow Americans with common interests. Would you rather feel morally superior to someone who voted against you or win their vote?

Who is demonizing people like you? My in-laws, two of my brothers, my dad... lots of people I know used to identify as Republican or conservative but have never voted for Trump. Why would anyone have a problem with them? Respect.

People demonize those who still support Trump.

PP you responded to.

I don’t care if you demonize me, I’ll vote against Trump regardless. However, because I want MORE people to vote against him, I am pleading with the Democrats to stop demonizing the voters.

Allow someone to be pro-life without saying they hate women, and then talk to them about healthcare. Allow someone to want to crack down on immigration without calling them racist, then tell them what the Democrats can do to manage immigration better (streamlined procedures, more judges, fines for employers, etc.) - and point out that even if they support deportations, that’s not what Trump is actually doing when he sends people to prisons without due process. If someone wants some form of school choice through charters or vouchers, instead of treating them as either religious wackos or snobs wanting to avoid the poors, approach them as concerned parents and suggest ideas to improve education (other than just throwing more money at it) and maybe transition into the problems with monopolies, corporate greed, private equity, etc. If someone doesn’t believe in vaccines or global warming, don’t call them stupid, just pivot and find something you can agree on. So many times I see Democrats actively pushing voters away.

Does it really matter if voters are wrong on an issue (or even most issues) as long as they vote for the Democrats? You don’t have to become their best friend, you can continue to feel smugly superior to them, and if you get into power, you can do whatever you want. But unless you get some of them to vote with you, you won’t have the chance to implement your agenda. While I personally disagree with much of the Democrats’ agenda, I don’t want to lose the country in the process. If I can set my personal preferences aside enough for their side to win, why won’t they set aside their own personal preferences enough for their side to win?

No one is demonizing you. And if you perceive they are, then that is a you problem.

Fact: Deniying abortion is anti-woman, it just is. If you don't want an abortion, don't have one, but don't tell other women how to manage their own bodies.
Cracking down on immigration by racial profling is, in fact, racist. No one complained when Obama and Biden were deporting people because they were doing it legally.
Charter schools done right and legally are fine - see how DC does it. But in many states, they are using public money to find religious schools - that is wrong and should be called out.
Vaccines are proven science. Not "believing" in it is...strange. I can understand people not wanting it for religious reasons etc, but proven science is still science.
Climate change is climate change, again proven science that we are all seeing the impacts of every year. One can deny it, but that doesn't make it less real.

Call me smug if that makes you feel better, but really, facts are facts.

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Anonymous wrote:I get not trusting Trump to operate the mechanics of voting.

However, Democrats just spent the 18 years since 2008 bringing literally dozens of lawsuits against at least 20 states (primarily southern and midwestern) for various election and Voting Rights Act violations. Democrats are the ones who have pushed for virtually every federal law constraining states' discretion over voting requirements. Democrats have argued consistently that states cannot be trusted to manage their own elections. I would know! I helped litigate more than 10 of these cases and co-wrote amicus briefs in many others.

Are we really switching horses midstream now to pretend federal control of elections is dangerous and fascist, and 50 different states each running their own show is "democracy"?

This keeps happening -- Trump takes a Democratic idea to its natural conclusion and we panic. It all points to some real shortsightedness and stupidity in our decades-long strategies. We need to think more deeply about how we handed Trump the loaded gun in many ways.

You litigated voting rights acts cases and yet seem unaware that those cases dealt with state actions taken to deny people their right to vote and not federalization of elections? Which side were you on?

You really think you're going to tell me what the cases I litigated dealt with? Our goal was absolutely federalization of elections to the maximum extent possible because the Democratic establishment has not trusted states on ANYTHING in the past 70 years. This was not a secret to anyone, except maybe to dunces like you who think you're going to argue with me about what I spent thousands of hours working on pro bono for years with dozens of other lawyers around the nation.

Again, WE laid the groundwork for the argument that states cannot be trusted to run elections. We just did not see a character like Trump coming to power to use our decades-long efforts as a springboard. In hindsight, that was shortsighted and stupid of us, and people like you are still determined to learn zero lessons.

Anonymous wrote:I get not trusting Trump to operate the mechanics of voting.

However, Democrats just spent the 18 years since 2008 bringing literally dozens of lawsuits against at least 20 states (primarily southern and midwestern) for various election and Voting Rights Act violations. Democrats are the ones who have pushed for virtually every federal law constraining states' discretion over voting requirements. Democrats have argued consistently that states cannot be trusted to manage their own elections. I would know! I helped litigate more than 10 of these cases and co-wrote amicus briefs in many others.

Are we really switching horses midstream now to pretend federal control of elections is dangerous and fascist, and 50 different states each running their own show is "democracy"?

This keeps happening -- Trump takes a Democratic idea to its natural conclusion and we panic. It all points to some real shortsightedness and stupidity in our decades-long strategies. We need to think more deeply about how we handed Trump the loaded gun in many ways.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't think this happens if a bunch of blue jurisdictions weren't pushing for non-citizen voting.

Please name a jurisdiction that “pushed” for non-citizen voting in federal elections. You can’t.

No, they can't. These are the same idiots who claim Dems want men to compete in women's sports or Dems want open borders. They whole-heartedly believe any click bait news they come across. Morons they are.

Anonymous wrote:Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."


She may have simply just said "the white people"