In my view, they'd be better off going the compact route. You won't have to wait too long to get a congressional majority willing to do it. And it makes it harder for it to fall apart.

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

Well, it's clearly an interstate compact, so it needs to pass Congress by a majority vote. After that, I guess disputes go to the courts, but that's true now as well.

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Slobodan Milošević - Wikipedia

Among many examples you could choose, Slobodan Milošević lost power in 2000 after losing a landslide election where he seems to have miscalculated and not done enough election fraud to prevail. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloboda...

Strong political parties that bend the rules to entrench their power and succumb to corruption are a consistent feature of democracy qua democracy. And if your entrenched ruling party can lose everything in a wave election, you are not living in an authoritarian state.

Nope. Nope. Nope. This post is just two false statements.

I would love to see responses to this question before 2000, when people had no association between the popular vote and any particular party outcome.

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If you believe yourself to be a Christian, you should ask yourself: Am I prepared to, at the end of my life, stand before God and explain that I spent a major portion of my middle years as an apologist for Donald Trump and his many horrible sins?

Strong political parties that bend the rules to entrench their power and succumb to corruption are a consistent feature of democracy qua democracy. And if your entrenched ruling party can lose everything in a wave election, you are not living in an authoritarian state.

Nope. Nope. Nope. This post is just two false statements.

Last Witness to President Abraham Lincoln Assassination I've Got A Secret YouTube video by HistoryFlicks4u

I assume you have seen this one? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPo...

I think a widespread crackdown (through legislation and enforcement of existing laws) on various forms of fraud would be good on the merits and possibly very good politics. We don't need to allow orgs to constantly send people phone and email solicitations for various forms of fraud.

People who lived their lives enjoying the gifts of the American republican government under the great U.S. Constitution, yet became enthralled by Orban's authoritarian government, should feel profound regret and rethink some things.

I enjoy watching the NBA regular season. But it helps that my primary team (the Celtics) is good and has been for quite a while. My ideas for reforms to reduce tanking:
Eliminate the play-in. Back to 16 playoff teams.
Give lottery teams close to totally flat odds.
Shorter season by 5-10 games.

"Orban conceded so therefore Trump is no threat to US democracy" is quite the admission of not being a serious person.

Similar to "Jan. 6 didn't work so the extended two-month campaign that preceded it was not an attempted coup."

I think a widespread crackdown (through legislation and enforcement of existing laws) on various forms of fraud would be good on the merits and possibly very good politics. We don't need to allow orgs to constantly send people phone and email solicitations for various forms of fraud.

"Jews promote race-mixing among everyone else, to undermine the white race, while protecting their own racial purity" is a quite longtime fascist view about the Jews. It's literally part of Nazi ideology.

People who lived their lives enjoying the gifts of the American republican government under the great U.S. Constitution, yet became enthralled by Orban's authoritarian government, should feel profound regret and rethink some things.

Good news for Ukrainian freedom as well today.

Also, in a true democracy no party needs to win the vote by a supermajority to get control of government. No one should be complacent about the uneven playing field of competitive authoritarianism.

"Here's why the election results in Hungary perfectly validate my recommended political strategy for the U.S."

Przeworski watching an incumbent party lose power

The idea of competitive authoritarianism is that it’s an in-between, hybrid type of regime. It is not fully democratic but all hope is not lost.

One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.

:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::

The Strait of Hormuz Blockade, but we add OUR blockade.

One foundation, Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) was handed $1.7 billion in government money and asset to train conservatives and create programming for primary and secondary education. Even if Orban loses elections, his loyalists will remain. Advisory board members appointed by Orban were given lifetime positions, and they are the only ones who can select new members. This is a basic form of cronyism, a bribe to retain power. Orban appointed Balazs Orban (no relation), to lead the MCC even as he served as state secretary in the prime minister’s office. The Lesser Orban serves as an ambassador to far-right academics and think tanks, such as the Heritage Foundation.

If Orban loses, curious how much the Hungarian gravy train for right-wing academics and think-tankers will dry up. This was the means by which Orban helped to build his stature in the West. He tried to insulate these institutions from election losses. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/make-ameri...

Iran sent a team of 30 including university professors, scientists, diplomats, PhDs. The American delegation includes no diplomats, but lots of relatives of Trump and real estate developers. Who's going to get fleeced? www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.

Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.

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