constitutional crisis

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• SOURCE: BoingBoing
  1/7/2022
  

  Timothy Snyder's Dire Speculations on the Next Trumpist Coup

  The worst-case scenario for 2024 is pretty bad, according to the Yale historian of European fascism.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/8/2021
  

  The Electoral Count Act is Broken; History Shows it Always Has Been

  by Erik B. Alexander and Rachel Shelden

  Much of what we know about the Congressional resolution of the 1876 presidential election is wrong. Rather than a behind-the-scenes compromise, the election was decided in a context of severe vote suppression and partisanship.

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• SOURCE: Substack
  9/27/2021
  

  Never-Trumpers Keep Insisting that Reaganism Was Not Demagoguery--It Was

  by Claire Potter

  Robert Kagan's assessment of the risks of a presidential coup in 2024 is strangely silent on the role of his own neoconservative faction in mobilizing grievance politics, and uses poor historical reasoning to try to rescue the Republican Party from association with Trumpism. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5-11-17
  

  Does Comey's Dismissal Fit the Definition of a Constitutional Crisis?

  The term is often narrowly described, but under certain circumstances, one can be triggered.