Thread of the Day -- Illegitimate

From Gotham Girl Blue:

2/ I know a lot of people are tired of “re-litigating” 2016, but I think we keep going back to it because:
• it’s traumatic
• it’s a wound
• it’s not healing

— GothamGirlBlue (@GothamGirlBlue) April 17, 2018

*SNIP*

9/ And the toughest question from 2016: is this government legitimate? What confers legitimacy? Can legitimate power be conferred by corrupt processes?

— GothamGirlBlue (@GothamGirlBlue) April 17, 2018

10/ These questions are the same in meaning and scope as the ones posed at our Founding and the ones faced during the Civil War. What does representative government mean, and what does it require?

— GothamGirlBlue (@GothamGirlBlue) April 17, 2018

These points are profound, yet basic and apparently eternal.

I've been saying for a while that in nearly every other contest in life that has rules, if someone cheats to win and are found out, the contest usually gets turned over. Why not in the most important contest in the entire world? GothamGirlBlue makes that case much more effectively:

18/ We did not have an answer for nullification, but we decided it. We did not have an answer for secession, but we decided it. We do not have an answer for a president indebted to a foreign power for his election; we will decide it.

— GothamGirlBlue (@GothamGirlBlue) April 17, 2018

That's the money shot.

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