Make no mistake about this: we are watching a coup in real time.

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63. it's just that they're becoming more and more emboldened because they CANNOT be stopped

With McConnell and Barr on Trump's side, we are all just being dragged over the waterfall.

I do genuinely love your message, and I hope that in a year we look back on all of this and say "Phew! Remember how enraging it was to see the GOP shit all over the constitution and get away with it? Thank god for our free and fair elections that ended that nightmare."

I'm just so scared that they'll outright steal the next election. Nobody's going to stop them. Nobody who can stop them even wants to stop them. What can we do about it if exit polls show us winning in a landslide but the official count shows us losing? Is there anything at all we can do?

Sorry, I sound panicky, but I actually would be thrilled to get some reassurance. Just a couple of days ago, when there were (probably) actually going to be witnesses, I thought that the phrase "Everything Trump touches dies" referred to the GOP. I'm more and more certain that our once-proud and once-respected country is what will die.