Where Are We Now: Silent Majorities, Loud Departures, And Floated Coups (Part 2)

In this episode, Conall and Emerson conclude (for now) their discussion of the 2020 presidential election and the lasting damage that President Trump has done to constitutional government in the United States by lying about the election's integrity. We also examine the broader role that the Republican Party has played in facilitating these conspiracy theories, and discuss more generally the importance in a democracy of losing parties seeing their losses as fundamentally fair and legitimate. We end the episode on a more hopeful note, reaffirming that the anti-Trump forces in this country are formidable when organized, and that the power of ordinary people organizing and fighting back is what got us through the Trump era. Sources: Medium article, "I Lived Through a Stupid Coup, America is Having One Right Now" https://indica.medium.com/i-lived-through-a-coup-america-is-having-one-now-437934b1dac3Snippet from Trump campaign lawsuit in 3rd Circuit Court, where Rudy Giuliani is quoting telling a federal judge under oath *in court* "this is not a fraud cause...". Judge Bibas goes on at length to dismantle the Trump campaign's arguments. https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1332376432559984641?s=20Full opinion of federal Judge Bibas dismantling Trump campaign legal arguments herehttps://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20417624-document-1 Music rights: Hit the Lights by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/