PLUS: A reminder - Biden won the popular vote by more than 7 million votes.
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** Who Let Trump Happen? ([link removed])
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by Will Marshall, PPI President
President Trump ([link removed]) ’s misbegotten presidency crashed and burned on Wednesday with a treacherous assault on American democracy. It failed, as most of Trump’s half-baked schemes do. But now the country needs a reckoning with a Republican Party that let it happen.
Senator and soon-to-be Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ([link removed]) (D-N.Y.) got it right last night: For Americans, January 6, 2021 is another day that will live in infamy ([link removed]) . Our country was attacked not by a foreign power, but from within. The assailant was a lame-duck president the American people wisely fired last November.
I watched Trump harangue the mob he had summoned to Washington for his last-ditch effort to bully Congress into nullifying the 2020 election results. It was a performance worthy of a dictator: A farrago of big lies about his imagined “landslide” victory ([link removed]) , paranoid attacks on his usual stock villains – the media, even Hillary Clinton ([link removed]) – and threats to destroy the careers of “weak Republicans” who balked at his blatantly unconstitutional demand that Congress overrule the voters and award him a second term.
It was also an undisguised incitement to mob violence, with Trump promising to lead his supporters in a march up Capitol Hill. Actually, he retired to the White House to watch his handiwork on television. Waving Trump and Confederate flags, Trump supporters stormed America’s citadel of democracy, disrupting the certification vote, sending lawmakers into hiding, trashing the Capitol and raining obscenities and abuse on the police.
Trump lit the match, but he had plenty of accomplices. The shambolic MAGA insurrection would not have happened had not leading Republican politicians played along with Trump’s claims of having been cheated of reelection.
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** Trump's Crimes Make Watergate Look Tame ([link removed])
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by Will Marshall
President Trump has been caught on tape committing what would be considered a crime if you or I did it: pressuring public officials in Georgia to falsify the results of the 2020 presidential election. He urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes — the exact number Trump needs to exceed Joe Biden’s winning margin.
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** Trump vs. Democracy ([link removed])
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by Will Marshall
Biden won the popular vote by more than 7 million votes, yet Trump persists in peddling QAnon-is style conspiracy theories about stolen votes, and claims laughably to have won by a landslide. The choice facing U.S. lawmakers couldn’t have been more simple or stark: Fantasy or reality, Trump or democracy?
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** The IRS and the Second Stimulus Payments ([link removed])
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by Michael Mandel
It’s hard to take your eyes away from the ongoing political drama in Washington, as the presidential transition turns violent and even fatal. Yet at the same time, it’s important to note additional evidence that basic government competency functions have been ignored under the Trump Administration.
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Reinventing America’s Schools Director David Osborne spoke with host Mac Bogert on the podcast “Back2Different” recently, about his career, how and why we need to reinvent our public schools, and how the pandemic will change public education going forward.
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