Not the first time an American political party sanctions treason in pursuit of white nationalist goals.
Remember how many people were dunking on those national security "experts" last year when they estimated there's a "35% chance" of a civil war in the next 10-15 years?
It was stupid because of the silly attempt to quantify the probability.
What's sobering is that the Civil War began when slave interests refused to accept *any* limit on their political domination and opted to commit treason to retain supremacy.

Remember, the Civil War had many causes, but the spark that lit the powder was an election.
The "treason issue" split the Democratic Party, but generally less so than one might suppose. In addition to Southern Democrats who joined the Confederacy, there were plenty of Copperhead Democrats in the North eager to cut a deal to end the war -- to the point of sedition.
(Actual #twitterstorians of the Civil War, please jump in and correct me if I'm getting the details/arguments wrong.)

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Sep 21, 2018
Prediction: Next week will solidify autocracy in the United States.
Trump will use the Rosenstein story as a pretext to fire him, and then fire Mueller.
Kavanaugh will be confirmed, cementing a right-wing majority on the Supreme Court and ensuring that the executive's actions will not be subject to any meaningful legal oversight.
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Serious question: what does “legitimacy” mean in this context? What does treating the Supreme Court as an “illegitimate” institution look like?
It strikes me that if the criteria for “legitimacy” is popular democracy, then the current federal and many state governments (I’m looking at you, North Carolina) are “illegitimate.”
Even the DC city gov’t is “illegitimate,” as it’s poised to reverse a voter referendum on raising the minimum wage for tipped workers.
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SPOILER ALERT: Remember how, at the end of “Sorry to Bother You,” Cassius repeatedly went on national TV to warn people about WorryFree and nothing happened?
I feel like we’re going through that right now. nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/…
Crickets so far from the free speech crowd:
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Oh, Lord.

Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged accomplice in his alleged attempted rape, is the author of “God and Man at Georgetown Prep.”
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At its most dire, it means the politics of managing human extinction.
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I’m not gonna dive too deep into this since @SethCotlar has already done a bang-up job.
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The difference is that Sully thinks this is a good thing.
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