Opinion: Ominous new details about Trump's coup attempt require Democrats to act

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Opinion: Ominous new details about Trump’s coup attempt require Democrats to act

Opinion by Greg Sargent
Columnist
Yesterday at 11:03 a.m. EDT

In case you need more evidence of how much damage keeping the filibuster might end up doing, add this to the list: It could make a future stolen presidential election more likely.

This is thrust upon us by new revelations about the extent of Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 loss — and by an important new paper by a leading legal scholar warning of future election subversion. Both should prompt new urgency among Democrats.

The revelations come from the new book “Peril,” by The Post’s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. The headline: Two GOP senators — Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mike Lee of Utah — took Trump’s lies about election fraud seriously enough to devote real resources to vetting them.

But for our purposes, the more important revelation involves how those lies were supposed to interlock with the broader scheme cooked up by Trump and his co-conspirators.

The key takeaway: Gaping holes in the Electoral Count Act — the 1887 law that governs how Congress counts electoral college votes — were central to the chances that their scheme might succeed.

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Opinion by Greg Sargent
Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog. He joined The Post in 2010, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. Twitter https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs

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1. The sad fact is, we don't have the numbers to do what needs to be done.

The sadder fact is, that if we don't do something, some of those 81 million voters who turned out for Biden in 2020, may not turn out in 2022. If we lose one chamber, nothing will get done. And if we lose the House, I suspect they will try to impeach, cuz that's the kind of childish assholes they are.

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2. Sadly, I think the only way to prevent this in 2024...

Is to let the Republicans know that we are fully prepared to shut this country down via general strikes and other forms of civil disobedience, and we are prepared to fight back if they turn to violence.