Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

[linux07]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

 

[JGalt]

Democracies are for Greeks. It's a "constitutional republic."

 

[Ben Thomson]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

True democracy scares the hell out of right wingers..an authoritarian oligarchy is their idea of a perfect system of government.

 

[theHawk]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Well I certainly wouldn’t expect the mental midgets at The Atlantic to understand that Mike Lee is 100% correct, we are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.

 

[theHawk]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

True democracy scares the hell out of right wingers..an authoritarian oligarchy is their idea of a perfect system of government.

True democracy is a lynch mob, which is why the Democrats have their name.

A Republic has inalienable rights, that cannot be taken away from the masses.

 

[okfine]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Trump dislikes our best of allies and loves the dictators. It is clear as hell.

If any of you haven't voted yet please do not vote for the incumbent when you do.

 

[night_son]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Listen very closely Mr. Linux. A very large number of Americans—all of them good, upstanding, tax paying, commie hating, Christians—are already on board with an authoritarian incarnation of Donald Trump. Whether or not that surprises you matters not to me or anyone else still moderately sane. However, we think you should at least know why we are good with a King Trump I, why we fear a King Trump not in the least.

Because the now radicalized atheist, sadist, Satanic democratic party has driven our American civilization to the brink of the abyss; the abyss where nations turn into the dust of history. You radical leftists have mercilessly attacked our history, our traditions, our God given and guaranteed rights, our culture, our race and our history. Not least of all, you have relentlessly attacked the minds and bodies of our children; that was a monolithic mistake—a mistake of epochal proportions.

You have stretched beyond the point of breaking the acceptable bounds of human tolerance and you keep on stretching it. So don't be shocked, don't be surprised and don't stand around with your peckers in your hands and thumbs in your mouths when the authoritarian (and righteous) smackdown crushes your party, your ideology and any future hope of its existence—ever again in human history yet to come.

You psycho-circus clowns have brought what's incoming down onto your own heads. Sure, many innocent Americans will be caught up in the smackdown. You have only yourselves to blame. Then again, we're at that point in the historical cycle of civilization when the people, thoroughly disgusted by what radical movements have visited upon their daily lives, pray night and day for someone to rise up and crush the freaks. Enjoy the coming storm.

 

[Ben Thomson]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Well I certainly wouldn’t expect the mental midgets at The Atlantic to understand that Mike Lee is 100% correct, we are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.

A Constitutional Republic that practices democracy..for now anyway.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

True democracy scares the hell out of right wingers..an authoritarian oligarchy is their idea of a perfect system of government.

True democracy is a lynch mob, which is why the Democrats have their name.

A Republic has inalienable rights, that cannot be taken away from the masses.

As the old saying goes “ democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for lunch”.

 

[MarathonMike]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

That's hilarious. You are voting for an Oligarchy takeover of America. Biden is a vegetable who will quickly be swatted aside as the Socialist Race Baiters change all the rules to retain power indefinitely.

 

[flacaltenn]

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens

You should be lecturing BOTH parties on restructuring democracy.,. Like the party that threatens to "pack the court" or end the fillbuster or hobble Exec powers.. ALL these will backfire on your "revolutionaries" in the same fantastic fireworks as their other evil plans.. Go lecture them on adding puerto rico and DC to statehood..

Or just wait and see how these evil plans to make America a ONE PARTY nation blow up in their faces on election night and the MASS MAIL crap and "Popular Vote Initiative" ends up pissing off their own base...

When CALI, NY, MASS and ILLINOIS TURN RED on the map because these hot-heads signed a pact that DEMANDS their electors to electoral College IGNORE THE WILL OF THEIR OWN VOTERS and bind them by the "popular" vote..

The only thing protecting America from these two power hungry meglomaniac parties is how INEPT AND STUPID they are....

Here they are --

 

[Ben Thomson]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

That's hilarious. You are voting for an Oligarchy takeover of America. Biden is a vegetable who will quickly be swatted aside as the Socialist Race Baiters change all the rules to retain power indefinitely.

They are already in power, where have you been for the last four years.

 

[excalibur]

The word 'democracy' is not in the Constitution. We are not a democracy.

 

[Rambunctious]

We fear that the left seeks an end to democracy and free speech....Trump supporters are afraid to put Trump stickers on their cars.....so yes we fear the loss of freedom....and I'll tell you libs one thing you don't want to happen...and that is to cause us to fear you....if that happens you are done.....

 

[okfine]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Well I certainly wouldn’t expect the mental midgets at The Atlantic to understand that Mike Lee is 100% correct, we are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.

What you say has been thrown around by the right for so long and they still don't get it right. Either do you. What Lee said in his tweet was incorrect. He learned it wrong.
Representative Democracy is correct. You are wrong.

"The Utah Republican's tweets on the matter are linked to a long history of Republicans rejecting the notion that the US political system is a democracy. The GOP's objection to calling the US a democracy is tied to the fact Republicans have reason to fear a system in which a majority of Americans have more say. The Republican party's platform is increasingly at odds with the perspectives of most voters on an array of issues."

A GOP senator said 'rank democracy' is bad for America at a time when Trump is behaving like an authoritarian

The GOP senator is an ally of a president who has rapidly eroded democratic norms during his tenure and is actively working to undermine the election.

www.businessinsider.com

Read the wapo article here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/

 

[BrokeLoser]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

True democracy scares the hell out of right wingers..an authoritarian oligarchy is their idea of a perfect system of government.

The filthy Left often makes this accusation because the Right remains steadfast in their quest to protect and preserve the Declaration Of Independence, The Bill Of Rights, the Constitution, American virtue, values and traditions.

 

[Ben Thomson]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

True democracy scares the hell out of right wingers..an authoritarian oligarchy is their idea of a perfect system of government.

True democracy is a lynch mob, which is why the Democrats have their name.

A Republic has inalienable rights, that cannot be taken away from the masses.

As the old saying goes “ democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for lunch”.

or ten sheep and one wolf

 

[okfine]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Listen very closely Mr. Linux. A very large number of Americans—all of them good, upstanding, tax paying, commie hating, Christians—are already on board with an authoritarian incarnation of Donald Trump. Whether or not that surprises you matters not to me or anyone else still moderately sane. However, we think you should at least know why we are good with a King Trump I, why we fear a King Trump not in the least.

Because the now radicalized atheist, sadist, Satanic democratic party has driven our American civilization to the brink of the abyss; the abyss where nations turn into the dust of history. You radical leftists have mercilessly attacked our history, our traditions, our God given and guaranteed rights, our culture, our race and our history. Not least of all, you have relentlessly attacked the minds and bodies of our children; that was a monolithic mistake—a mistake of epochal proportions.

You have stretched beyond the point of breaking the acceptable bounds of human tolerance and you keep on stretching it. So don't be shocked, don't be surprised and don't stand around with your peckers in your hands and thumbs in your mouths when the authoritarian (and righteous) smackdown crushes your party, your ideology and any future hope of its existence—ever again in human history yet to come.

You psycho-circus clowns have brought what's incoming down onto your own heads. Sure, many innocent Americans will be caught up in the smackdown. You have only yourselves to blame. Then again, we're at that point in the historical cycle of civilization when the people, thoroughly disgusted by what radical movements have visited upon their daily lives, pray night and day for someone to rise up and crush the freaks. Enjoy the coming storm.

What a rant. The Big Blame Game.

 

[flacaltenn]

Pelosi wants her OWN FBI and Federal Marshall authority.. ANYONE on the left think that's a REALLY REALLY STINKY turn for democracy??? Nawwww..

 

[Hossfly]

We fear that the left seeks an end to democracy and free speech....Trump supporters are afraid to put Trump stickers on their cars.....so yes we fear the loss of freedom....and I'll tell you libs one thing you don't want to happen...and that is to cause us to fear you....if that happens you are done.....

I won't put a Trump sticker on my car because I want to stay out of prison and off death row.