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Rabbit: Pundits are claiming that Trump is a danger to the norms of American democracy, citing things like his conflicts of interest and not holding press conferences. Rabbit: But Trump and the Republicans have been ACTIVELY breaking the law. that's how Trump won the White house. He got there after decades of voter suppression across the country. Rabbit: Well, the Republican National Committee has been legally enjoined from monitoring polling places or engaging election observers for over thirty years because their attempts at voter suppression were so egregious. Rabbit: Thanks to G.O.P. capture of state legislatures and gerrymandering they've made it official with voter caging, closing polling places, reducing funding for upgrading voting machines, voter intimidation, voter I.D. laws, and the Supreme Court's evisceration of the Voting Rights Act. Rabbit: All of which sound like dangers to the norms of American democracy. Rabbit: It's not about norms, it's about the wholesale destruction of the machinery of democracy.

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Where to start with this perfect storm of bullshit? Voter fraud is virtually nonexistent yet Trump claimed the election would be rigged; he was right, but it wasn't rigged against him. Instead, the Republicans have been waging war on voters, making sure only their kind of people are able to vote. In North Carolina, holy shit, where state Republicans specifically sought information on how people of color vote most so they could remove those voting methods, the GOP sent out an asshole press release crowing about how fewer Blacks were voting thanks to their efforts.

Of course, this is the first national election since the Supreme Court struck down the most important parts of the Voting Rights Act by saying, essentially, racism is probably over, and if it isn't, the feds are going to need to prove it. Of course a bunch of states went and tried to prove it by acting like racist assholes, putting in brand-new voting restrictions like crazy, only some of which had time to be declared unconstitutional by the courts before the election.

If you're wondering about the Republican National Committee restrictions, they've been in place since the 1980s when the RNC was caught suppressing the minority vote so blatantly even the courts had to notice. That was then, this is now, of course.