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Trump’s attempted coup continues – even after January 6 hearings are over for now
"Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun
[...] For more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from their party’s national leaders, state Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft. Elected officials in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and other states have studied Donald Trump’s crusade to overturn the 2020 election. They have noted the points of failure and have taken concrete steps to avoid failure next time. Some of them have rewritten statutes to seize partisan control of decisions about which ballots to count and which to discard, which results to certify and which to reject. They are driving out or stripping power from election officials who refused to go along with the plot last November, aiming to replace them with exponents of the Big Lie. They are fine-tuning a legal argument that purports to allow state legislators to override the choice of the voters.
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Robert Reich
The committee has produced history’s most detailed account of an American president’s cruel and seditious
pursuit of power. Even now, Trump continues to push states to alter the outcomes of the 2020 election
‘Trump is encouraging Republican lawmakers in several states to pass legislation
allowing them to take over election machinery and ignore the popular
vote.’ Photograph: Rebecca Noble/Reuters
Sun 24 Jul 2022 20.17 AEST
Last modified on Mon 25 Jul 2022 04.51 AEST
The House of Representatives’ select committee investigating the January 6 attack has finished its hearings, at least for now.
But Trump’s attempted coup continues.
He has not stopped giving speeches to stir up angry mobs with his big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. He gave another fiery address Friday evening in Arizona.
How the January 6 panel set the stage for a criminal case against Trump
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/23/january-6-hearings-trump-criminal-case
He is actively backing congressional candidates who propound his big lie.
Trump continues to push states to alter the outcomes of the 2020 election. Just last week he urged Wisconsin assembly speaker Robin Vos to support a resolution to retract Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes cast for Biden.
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He is encouraging Republican lawmakers in several states to pass legislation allowing them to take over election machinery and ignore the popular vote.
Meanwhile, the lives of committee members and their families have been threatened .. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/23/jan-6-committee-violent-threats/7708982001/ . Witnesses have received gangster-style warnings not to cooperate .. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-warns-attempts-influence-witnesses-trump-allies-rcna35800 .
The committee’s message to all of America, including Republicans: Stop supporting this treachery.
The committee has made that treachery crystal clear.
It has shown the deception behind Trump’s big lie, including Trump’s attorney general William Barr, saying “I saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations” and that promoting it was “a grave disservice to the country”.
It has demonstrated non-partisan repulsion toward Trump’s attempted coup, even in Trump’s White House. As former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson said, “I was disgusted. It was unpatriotic, it was un-American. We were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie.”
It has made open appeals to Republican lawmakers to stop supporting the attempt. The Republican vice-chair of the committee, Liz Cheney, warned her Republican colleagues “who are defending the indefensible” that “there will come a day when Donald Trump .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump .. is gone, but your dishonor will remain”.
It has revealed how average Americans fell for Trump’s treachery, with disastrous results. Witness Stephen Ayres, who described himself as “nothing but a family man and a working man”, participated in the January 6 attack because Trump “basically put out, you know, come to the Stop the Steal rally, you know, and I felt like I needed to be down here”.
And it has reminded Americans of their duties to democracy. As committee chair Bennie Thompson put it: “When you’re on the losing side, that doesn’t mean you have to be happy about it … but you can’t turn violent.”
Committee member Jamie Raskin recalled Lincoln’s warning that politicians who encourage mobs to rampage and terrorize will destroy the bonds of social trust necessary for democracy to work.
It is impossible to know whether the hearings will lead to criminal indictments and convictions of Trump and his enablers.
But the hearings already appear to have convinced some Trump supporters that he is a dangerous charlatan.
The percentage of Republicans who say Trump misled people about the 2020 election has ticked up since last month .. https://morningconsult.com/2022/07/12/jan-6-hearings-voters-trump-gop-standing/ , while Trump’s enormous fundraising operation .. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/26/trump-fatigue-sets-in-some-donors-are-getting-sick-of-the-sh-show-00042413 .. has slowed .. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trumps-fundraising-juggernaut-slows-other-republicans-gain-2022-07-16/ . A New York Times/Siena College poll last week showed that nearly half of Republican primary voters would rather vote for a Republican other than Trump in 2024.
History teaches that it is possible to bring down an American demagogue by putting his wickedness on display for all to see.
In 1954, I watched the Army-McCarthy hearings. The Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy – whose communist witch hunt was ending careers and debasing much of the US government – had charged the US army with lax security at a top-secret army facility. The army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch to make its case.
At a session on 9 June 1954, after McCarthy accused one of Welch’s young staff attorneys of being a communist, Welch responded in words that led to McCarthy’s undoing: “Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.”
When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, “Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?”
Almost overnight, McCarthy’s immense national popularity evaporated. Censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party and ignored by the press, McCarthy died three years later, 48 years old and a broken man.
Now, the January 6 committee has produced history’s most detailed account of an American president’s cruel and seditious pursuit of power.
Will it be enough to stop Trump’s ongoing attempted coup? That depends on whether Americans heed the committee’s implicit plea to ensure that American democracy endures.
This article was amended on 24 July 2022. McCarthy was a senator for Wisconsin, not Minnesota.
* Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few .. https://bookshop.org/books/saving-capitalism-for-the-many-not-the-few/9780345806222 .. and The Common Good .. https://bookshop.org/books/the-common-good-9780525436379/9780525436379 . His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It .. https://bookshop.org/books/the-system-who-rigged-it-how-we-fix-it/9780525659044 , is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com .. http://robertreich.substack.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/24/trumps-attempted-coup-continues-even-after-january-6-hearings-are-over-for-now
See also:
The non-inflated truth about inflation
And the best way to fight it without hurting workers or slowing the economy.
- Robert Reich
[...]
What to do? Don’t slow the economy. Instead, reduce corporate concentration.
P - As I mentioned at the outset, the Fed meets today. It’s poised to try to control inflation by raising borrowing costs. This means the Fed will battle inflation the old way — drafting millions of workers into the inflation fight by slowing the economy and causing them to lose their jobs or wages, or both.
P - This is the wrong medicine for the wrong disease. It will hurt millions of people who are among the most vulnerable in the economy. The correct medicine is to reduce corporate market power.
P - Biden has started to try. He has prodded the Agriculture Department to investigate large meatpackers that are raising prices and underpaying farmers — while tripling their profit margins during the pandemic. He has encouraged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate accusations that large oil companies are artificially inflating prices, even after global oil prices began to fall in recent weeks.
P - In late October, the FTC ordered nine large retailers, including Walmart, Amazon and Kroger, to turn over detailed information to help root out the sources of supply chain disruptions that were “harming competition in the U.S. economy.”
P - Biden has urged the Federal Maritime Commission to root out price gouging by large shipping companies at the heart of supply chains. The Commission has investigated the handful of corporate shipping alliances that effectively control the flow of goods across the world’s oceans and which have raised prices as much as ninefold during the pandemic, according to data from the freight-tracking firm Freightos.
P - In addition, Biden has tapped antitrust crusaders for key roles, including Lina Khan to be chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, and Jonathan Kanter (a long-time adversary of Facebook and Google) to lead the antitrust division of the Justice Department. And he has brought Tim Wu (a proponent of breaking up Facebook and other large companies) into the White House as a special adviser on competition issues.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=167665622
Robert Reich: The whole market has been tilted to favor the rich
The former secretary of labor explains why Americans pay more for food and Internet than any other advanced nation VIDEO
2015m BOREALIS - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=117385862
Flat tax a flat-out fraud
© 2011 Robert Reich Published 4:00 am, Sunday, October 30, 2011
2013 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=88486220
"Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun
[...] For more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from their party’s national leaders, state Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft. Elected officials in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and other states have studied Donald Trump’s crusade to overturn the 2020 election. They have noted the points of failure and have taken concrete steps to avoid failure next time. Some of them have rewritten statutes to seize partisan control of decisions about which ballots to count and which to discard, which results to certify and which to reject. They are driving out or stripping power from election officials who refused to go along with the plot last November, aiming to replace them with exponents of the Big Lie. They are fine-tuning a legal argument that purports to allow state legislators to override the choice of the voters.
Related:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169485278
Robert Reich
The committee has produced history’s most detailed account of an American president’s cruel and seditious
pursuit of power. Even now, Trump continues to push states to alter the outcomes of the 2020 election
‘Trump is encouraging Republican lawmakers in several states to pass legislation
allowing them to take over election machinery and ignore the popular
vote.’ Photograph: Rebecca Noble/Reuters
Sun 24 Jul 2022 20.17 AEST
Last modified on Mon 25 Jul 2022 04.51 AEST
The House of Representatives’ select committee investigating the January 6 attack has finished its hearings, at least for now.
But Trump’s attempted coup continues.
He has not stopped giving speeches to stir up angry mobs with his big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. He gave another fiery address Friday evening in Arizona.
How the January 6 panel set the stage for a criminal case against Trump
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/23/january-6-hearings-trump-criminal-case
He is actively backing congressional candidates who propound his big lie.
Trump continues to push states to alter the outcomes of the 2020 election. Just last week he urged Wisconsin assembly speaker Robin Vos to support a resolution to retract Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes cast for Biden.
Advertisement
He is encouraging Republican lawmakers in several states to pass legislation allowing them to take over election machinery and ignore the popular vote.
Meanwhile, the lives of committee members and their families have been threatened .. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/23/jan-6-committee-violent-threats/7708982001/ . Witnesses have received gangster-style warnings not to cooperate .. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-warns-attempts-influence-witnesses-trump-allies-rcna35800 .
The committee’s message to all of America, including Republicans: Stop supporting this treachery.
The committee has made that treachery crystal clear.
It has shown the deception behind Trump’s big lie, including Trump’s attorney general William Barr, saying “I saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations” and that promoting it was “a grave disservice to the country”.
It has demonstrated non-partisan repulsion toward Trump’s attempted coup, even in Trump’s White House. As former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson said, “I was disgusted. It was unpatriotic, it was un-American. We were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie.”
It has made open appeals to Republican lawmakers to stop supporting the attempt. The Republican vice-chair of the committee, Liz Cheney, warned her Republican colleagues “who are defending the indefensible” that “there will come a day when Donald Trump .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump .. is gone, but your dishonor will remain”.
It has revealed how average Americans fell for Trump’s treachery, with disastrous results. Witness Stephen Ayres, who described himself as “nothing but a family man and a working man”, participated in the January 6 attack because Trump “basically put out, you know, come to the Stop the Steal rally, you know, and I felt like I needed to be down here”.
And it has reminded Americans of their duties to democracy. As committee chair Bennie Thompson put it: “When you’re on the losing side, that doesn’t mean you have to be happy about it … but you can’t turn violent.”
Committee member Jamie Raskin recalled Lincoln’s warning that politicians who encourage mobs to rampage and terrorize will destroy the bonds of social trust necessary for democracy to work.
It is impossible to know whether the hearings will lead to criminal indictments and convictions of Trump and his enablers.
But the hearings already appear to have convinced some Trump supporters that he is a dangerous charlatan.
The percentage of Republicans who say Trump misled people about the 2020 election has ticked up since last month .. https://morningconsult.com/2022/07/12/jan-6-hearings-voters-trump-gop-standing/ , while Trump’s enormous fundraising operation .. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/26/trump-fatigue-sets-in-some-donors-are-getting-sick-of-the-sh-show-00042413 .. has slowed .. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trumps-fundraising-juggernaut-slows-other-republicans-gain-2022-07-16/ . A New York Times/Siena College poll last week showed that nearly half of Republican primary voters would rather vote for a Republican other than Trump in 2024.
History teaches that it is possible to bring down an American demagogue by putting his wickedness on display for all to see.
In 1954, I watched the Army-McCarthy hearings. The Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy – whose communist witch hunt was ending careers and debasing much of the US government – had charged the US army with lax security at a top-secret army facility. The army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch to make its case.
At a session on 9 June 1954, after McCarthy accused one of Welch’s young staff attorneys of being a communist, Welch responded in words that led to McCarthy’s undoing: “Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.”
When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, “Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?”
Almost overnight, McCarthy’s immense national popularity evaporated. Censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party and ignored by the press, McCarthy died three years later, 48 years old and a broken man.
Now, the January 6 committee has produced history’s most detailed account of an American president’s cruel and seditious pursuit of power.
Will it be enough to stop Trump’s ongoing attempted coup? That depends on whether Americans heed the committee’s implicit plea to ensure that American democracy endures.
This article was amended on 24 July 2022. McCarthy was a senator for Wisconsin, not Minnesota.
* Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few .. https://bookshop.org/books/saving-capitalism-for-the-many-not-the-few/9780345806222 .. and The Common Good .. https://bookshop.org/books/the-common-good-9780525436379/9780525436379 . His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It .. https://bookshop.org/books/the-system-who-rigged-it-how-we-fix-it/9780525659044 , is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com .. http://robertreich.substack.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/24/trumps-attempted-coup-continues-even-after-january-6-hearings-are-over-for-now
See also:
The non-inflated truth about inflation
And the best way to fight it without hurting workers or slowing the economy.
- Robert Reich
[...]
What to do? Don’t slow the economy. Instead, reduce corporate concentration.
P - As I mentioned at the outset, the Fed meets today. It’s poised to try to control inflation by raising borrowing costs. This means the Fed will battle inflation the old way — drafting millions of workers into the inflation fight by slowing the economy and causing them to lose their jobs or wages, or both.
P - This is the wrong medicine for the wrong disease. It will hurt millions of people who are among the most vulnerable in the economy. The correct medicine is to reduce corporate market power.
P - Biden has started to try. He has prodded the Agriculture Department to investigate large meatpackers that are raising prices and underpaying farmers — while tripling their profit margins during the pandemic. He has encouraged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate accusations that large oil companies are artificially inflating prices, even after global oil prices began to fall in recent weeks.
P - In late October, the FTC ordered nine large retailers, including Walmart, Amazon and Kroger, to turn over detailed information to help root out the sources of supply chain disruptions that were “harming competition in the U.S. economy.”
P - Biden has urged the Federal Maritime Commission to root out price gouging by large shipping companies at the heart of supply chains. The Commission has investigated the handful of corporate shipping alliances that effectively control the flow of goods across the world’s oceans and which have raised prices as much as ninefold during the pandemic, according to data from the freight-tracking firm Freightos.
P - In addition, Biden has tapped antitrust crusaders for key roles, including Lina Khan to be chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, and Jonathan Kanter (a long-time adversary of Facebook and Google) to lead the antitrust division of the Justice Department. And he has brought Tim Wu (a proponent of breaking up Facebook and other large companies) into the White House as a special adviser on competition issues.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=167665622
Robert Reich: The whole market has been tilted to favor the rich
The former secretary of labor explains why Americans pay more for food and Internet than any other advanced nation VIDEO
2015m BOREALIS - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=117385862
Flat tax a flat-out fraud
© 2011 Robert Reich Published 4:00 am, Sunday, October 30, 2011
2013 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=88486220
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