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Greg Sargent

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Peter Clarke (@MediaActive.bsky.social)(@MediaActive) 's Twitter Profile Photo

THREAD Greg Sargent Worth a read. Riven republic is being stress-tested to the max. is symptom not cause of the chronic malaise causing its to be on the line. Hyper-partisanship. Simmering violence. Bigotry. Abridged sense of the “collective”?

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Joe Ro(@joero3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A necessary criticism to a thoughtless (or nefarious) narrative. Sargent is right across the board in this analysis. Notice, he doesn't claim the Colorado decision is obviously correct. He essentially says it is a serious argument. Which it most emphatically is.

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Barb McQuade(@BarbMcQuade) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you want to know more about CO ruling barring Trump from ballot under 14A, this thread from Greg Sargent, including links to other views, is the place to start. SCOTUS will no doubt review significant legal questions, but it’s not undemocratic to enforce the Constitution.

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Patrick De Klotz(@patdeklotz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump engaged in a multifaceted scheme which included sending a mob he knew was armed to storm the legislative branch in order to illegally seize control of the Executive Branch of the US government; he used the threat of violence and actual violence as part of his scheme.

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Alan Elrod(@aselrod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To add to my agreement here: the entire idea that insurrection or civil conflict will look like 1861-65 is wrong, and scholars like Barbara F Walter have made this clear.

So I think Ross’s formulation doesn’t just obscure Trump’s actions. It degrades our risk assessment in this moment

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Alan Elrod(@aselrod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And this is the key thing, Greg clearly states: people who care about democracy shouldn’t treat the question of the 14th as simple and obvious. It’s difficult, and it is worth contemplating.

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davidrlurie(@davidrlurie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As Greg Sargent anticipates, SCOTUS may well reverse Colorado's Supreme Court; but as Sargent also explains, the Colorado ruling's grounded in plain meaning/original understanding of 14A's Insurrection Clause, a constitutional provision that supports, not undermines, democracy.

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Alan Elrod(@aselrod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m quite torn on kicking Trump off the ballots. But I think this Greg Sargent thread refuting Ross Douthat’s recent essay is important.

The use of the 14th in this way is a serious but legitimate tool. We should be sober about the implications, but it is not anti-democratic.

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Michael Pachter(@michaelpachter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Another great thread from Greg Sargent

Most of the commentary dismisses as irrelevant Trump’s promise to pardon all of the J6 felons, including the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy

That promise constitutes giving “comfort” under the 14A and is disqualifying

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Ian Bassin 🇺🇦(@ianbassin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is an excellent thread. I hope reporters covering this internalize Greg Sargent’s point about how not to inaccurately frame this serious question.

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David Austin Walsh(@DavidAstinWalsh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just read Samuel Moyn 🔭 in the NYT this morning and I think Greg Sargent is fundamentally correct in this thread. Voters have already rejected Trump and Trumpism in multiple elections, the response to which *by* Trump was to attempt to subvert the peaceful transfer of power.

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