The stunning part is that they let it go to a vote without having whipped the necessary numbers.
They could have drawn it out with hearings, but they thought they had it in the bag and that their whole caucus was bought into the BS narrative they’re trying to to drive leading into this election year.
The coroner system is terrible. It treats elected officials as if they are medical experts, and in turn they are able to offer that “expertise” in court. It’s a travesty.
There’s a great book on how this system can go wrong called The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Or you can probably just look up whatever your local coroner has done.
This. Cryptofascism relies on being able to scream, “It was just a joke / I didn’t know!”
Mistakes can happen and you might accidentally engage in a dog whistle as a normal person.
A dozen mistakes all pointing to the exact same thing are unlikely.
And to be fair, it could be one person at the top putting all these wink wink indicators in, and the majority involved might just be normal folks.
I still won’t be buying the game.
This is a bad take.
It overvalues the republican narrative machine. What’s the alternative? Rolling over and letting him do whatever because we’re afraid of whatever lie he’ll choose to tell? Hard pass.
If several blue states do the same, he will lose the nomination or the RNC will have to change the rules to put him in as the nominee. There are more republicans living in California than there are in Texas, and if they can’t vote for Trump, they’ll have to vote for another clown, which gives one of them a fighting chance of beating Trump. Regressives are selfish - they won’t be able to resist infighting.
Especially if it’s peaceful protest.
Gotta build the narrative that these are disruptive individuals. If they won’t do it themselves, the universities and states will just lie and hope that it will be enough to sway public opinion against the protestors.