Outside the Beltway

Here we go again.

Trump tried to interfere in GA earlier than we knew.

Hashtag: You’re Fired.

Trump’s lack of fealty to truth and reality gives supporters an out (if they choose it).

AZ, GA, and Pa are on the table.

On the op/ed page of WaPo, the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense say things that shouldn’t have to be said.

The sitting president is asking GA officials to find votes despite the fact that the results have been confirmed thrice.

The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.

It will be symbolic, but the symbol will be an anti-democratic one.

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

Wherein I detail evidence of fraud and take the Heritage Foundation’s database of fraud to task.

Or, more accurately, the lack thereof.

For those wondering what a textbook coup would look like.

Tunisia is freer but poorer than it was before Mohamed Bouazizi’s desperate act.

Too little, too late.

January 6th, when the electoral votes are counted.

There won’t be a Lincoln Party. It isn’t sustainable.

Further musings on the future of the Grand Old Party.

The party is unlikely to suffer consequences for its anti-democracy actions.

The popular former governor wants another crack at it.

The phone tour continues.

Wherein I respond to a ridiculous comparison.

Masklessly criss-crossing the country.

Not of governance.

That which worked for petty business disputes was never going to work on this big of a stage.

That thing that happens when you sow the wind with conspiracy theories.

Because a certain kind of election nerd likes graphs.

A shadowy flight into the realm of evidence that does not exist.

This time in the PA Supreme Court

Arguments and analyses that are, well, turkeys.

That’s unpossible!

Team Trump and the WI recount.

They were rejected bigly.

Why isn’t Joe Biden President already?

Why did Emily Murphy finally do her job?

Was Trump’s attempt to overturn the outcome a one-off or a sign of things to come?

At high noon.

He seems to have taken his ball and gone home.

More on why it isn’t going to happen.

Some Republicans are doing their jobs.

But, still very bad.

We spend so much time fighting over who should be in power that we don’t get anything important done.

They know Trump lost the election yet are aiding his outrageous assault on democracy.

Trumps words, Michigan GOP Canvassers’ actions.

The GOP is behaving exceedingly irresponsibly. Senator Graham and Representative Collins are prime examples.

Gracious concessions are the norm except when they’re not.

Explaining the continuing cowardice of GOP Senators.

Competing priorities.