Smeat

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Things are getting worse faster than we can lower our standards.

The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.

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If they can lie about the mortality of a US senator and get away with it they can lie about the results of an election and get away with it. Why don’t more Americans grasp this simple concept?

Authoritarianism concentrates power in the hands of a leader or small group while limiting independent oversight. Strong democracies rely on constitutional checks and balances, accountability, and the peaceful transfer of power.

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Donald Trump is set to announce Thursday in prime time that he’s the only President in US history who couldn’t keep our elections secure. If this were true it should be followed up with a resignation. He’s essentially saying he’s a victim of his own incompetence.

Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Hungary's New PM Just Showed Us What Courage Looks Like. Where's Ours?

Hypothetically, if I was elected President, here are the opening salvos of restoration

open.substack.com