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The threat to democracy is greater than Trump. Our Founding Father's made painful compromises to establish the Constitution 🧵
05:13 PM - May 08, 2024
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AndreaChalupa
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James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, feared two Senators for every state would give too much power to smaller states, thwarting the will of the majority. He was right.
05:13 PM - May 08, 2024
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AndreaChalupa
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"A resident of Wyoming has 68 times the representation in the Senate as does a resident of California, the largest state by population. A state gets less representation in the Senate the more it attracts new residents." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/opinion/senate-2024-inequality-madison.html
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AndreaChalupa
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The 2024 Senate map favors the GOP. If Trump wins the Electoral College (he will 100% lose the popular vote) and Republicans take the Senate, they will pack the courts, having already packed 30-percent of our courts in Trump's first term https://www.businessinsider.com/us-senate-races-2024-election-
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AndreaChalupa
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The Electoral College ensured we are ruled by the elite as the Founding Fathers feared direct democracy. I spoke with AriBerman about his new excellent book Minority Rule to understand how we overcome the boobytraps in the system https://bookshop.org/p/books/minority-rule-ari-berman/19994801?ean=97
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"The electoral college was set up in a way that favors Republicans more than Democrats, because it gives more power to more conservative, wider areas than more diverse and progressive areas." -AriBerman
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"These institutions are already rigged in the GOP's favor. The question is, do you have a strongman who comes in and starts getting rid of the remaining checks and balances that exist in the system? That's what Trump wanted to do at the end of his term in 2020." -AriBerman
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If Trump wins, what will an American dictatorship look like? AriBerman thinks it will be like Orban's Hungary, which has undergone a massive brain drain as quality of life plummeted under Orban, as I wrote earlier https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/1766082022781354193
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Listen to my discussion with AriBerman about his new book Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It here or wherever you get your podcasts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgtFetcFewE&t=2443s
Minority Rule - YouTube

How do we protect ourselves from a corrupt Supreme Court? How can the gerrymandering crisis be stopped? What were the Founding Fathers thinking? Can the Amer...

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In this week's episode, @gaslitnation looks at the latest in the authoritarian weather report, including how MAGA's pressure campaign contributed to police brutality on college campuses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldHLkSBY_98&t=19s
MAGA Incites Violence on Campus - YouTube

Overlooked in the campus protests is the witch-trial hearings by MAGA Mike Johnson’s House that bullied university presidents and scrutinized their federal f...

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