Waleed Shahid

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RT @notstevenwhite: It's striking that Republicans have held the White House twice this century and, both times, the inhabitant left office… — PolitiTweet.org

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A new tone! — PolitiTweet.org

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“Not quite willing to surrender their belief in...a Republican with the nation’s interests at heart, commentators, consultants, and flacks spin up a fantasy: The two-party system still works, democracy still functions, the week’s horrors will soon fade.” https://t.co/pjCEZjGo9C — PolitiTweet.org

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Resign. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MEPFuller Sure seems like QAnon and Trumpists will be greater force in GOP primary electorates up and down the ballot than Mitt Romney. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hill_charlotte: If you want to keep the fascists out of power, you have to reform the election laws that let them gain control. They'r… — PolitiTweet.org

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@justinamash Why not support @DonBeyerVA + @RoKhanna’s Fair Representation Act to create the rules and incentive structure to allow more parties to flourish and thus marginalize Trumpism? https://t.co/9jCCMe5jC7 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ezralevin: @DavidOAtkins @ThePlumLineGS @_waleedshahid @leedrutman Yeah Finland has fascists too. They get a minority of the votes and… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ThePlumLineGS @ezralevin @leedrutman 1) You could force the GOP to compete for a more diverse set of voters than basically only white, rural Christians. 2) Far-right movements tend to be more marginalized in proportional, multi-party systems than in a winner-take-all, two-party system. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ezralevin @ThePlumLineGS @leedrutman And these phenomenon are not naturally occurring! They are products of an incentive structure and electoral system that we, the people, give consent to and can change. If we changed the rules for how one gains power in the system, you’d have different results. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @leedrutman: We need to keep saying this: Democracy reform has to be the top priority for 2021. A fascist minority has used our politica… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @IlhanMN: Thank you to all my colleagues who have already joined our impeachment resolution! If your member hasn't yet joined, call th… — PolitiTweet.org

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New York Times Editorial Board: "Single-member districts have become a threat to the health of America’s representative democracy. https://t.co/PZ8SxkgFMX — PolitiTweet.org

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Reforming our single-member, winner-take-all system may seem like a strange remedy to yesterday's insurrection, but it would significantly quell the GOP's ability to gain political power through authoritarian and white supremacist appeals beyond Trump. https://t.co/PZ8SxkygEv — PolitiTweet.org

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These numbers are much starker now. Unless we enact the reforms for a more pluralistic multiracial democracy, we are stuck with the divisions that led to Trump's rise and the ability of the party of white supremacy to obstruct America into oblivion. https://t.co/HpFL1U32OM — PolitiTweet.org

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"The words of the President matter." https://t.co/zwRegZjpCv — PolitiTweet.org

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Insane. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ddayen @TheProspect Good piece but more practical reform would be to create the rules + incentive structure to break up GOP and create pluralistic democracy by getting @RepDonBeyer, @RoKhanna, and @JoeNeguse, @RepMcGovern’s HR4000 into HR1 perhaps with moderate GOP support. https://t.co/PZ8SxkgFMX https://t.co/XZy7g1ry2h — PolitiTweet.org

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“Trump’s legions are still out there, and now they are mourning a death and feeling yet more deceived by many of their supposed allies in Washington, who turned on them as soon as they did what they thought they had been asked to do.” https://t.co/5lAjQJOo3K — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @notstevenwhite: It's extremely disconcerting that a majority of Republicans in the House—with more local constituencies and facing reel… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @imillhiser: When Warnock and Ossoff are seated, Democrats and Republicans will each control half of the seats in the Senate. But the D… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bd_highsmith: H.R.1 is a good start. But ensuring real representative democracy will require, in addition, addressing Senate malapporti… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bd_highsmith: In all seriousness, we could end a lot of this by enacting—with the incoming legislative majority!—the sort of democracy-… — PolitiTweet.org

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“Hearts are not relevant to the issue; neither racial affinities nor racial hostilities are rooted there. It is institutions...which are the ultimate molders of collective sentiments. Let these institutions be reconstructed today.” -Bayard Rustin — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Taniel: The 121 House members, all Republicans, who voted to overturn the Arizona election: https://t.co/GpmINn1k7T — PolitiTweet.org

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Rand Paul: “Conservatives will never win again in this country. We shouldn’t be trashing the very institution that has been the way we win the presidency and the only way we’ve been winning the presidency recently is through the Electoral College.” https://t.co/AprQv3hSxA — PolitiTweet.org

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Headline if the US were a third world country: “Defeated Mega-Landowner Incites Violent Coup Attempt As Ethnic Tensions Deepen and Failed State Status Grows Imminent” — PolitiTweet.org

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“If what is happening in Washington were happening further south, we would have legions of commentators and analysts talking about a ‘failed state’ or a ‘lack of institutional maturity.’” — PolitiTweet.org

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“The Squad, both old and new, immediately drafted a series of steps to deal with Republican insurrectionists directly, rather than hoping they’d just be nicer.” https://t.co/kwPTUP1vas — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Mr_Berman: Matt Gaetz is on the House floor now blaming antifa for the riots on the Capitol, to applause. Just in case there was questi… — PolitiTweet.org