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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm not interested in relitigating the substantive issues that the US Supreme Court decided when it halted ongoing state-court proceedings. The point, which seems pretty obvious, is that having the election decided in that fashion was bad for democracy. There is a direct line between the Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore decision and the theory concocted by Republicans twenty years later that they can disregard a state's votes if they have the votes in Congress. Twenty years ago, their anti-democratic theories involved the federal courts. This year, when they lost in the federal courts, that didn't stop them. Democracy doesn't die all at once, but in steps.
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Which is not to say that the damage he's done is fatal. It's up to us, now.
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Agreed.
The biggest problems with the election and the process were (i) the Brooks Brothers Riot, in which Republicans used threats of violence to stop a count and (ii) the decision in the Supreme Court, which is a partisan piece of trash.
All other issues in that election are secondary.
