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Aug 9, 2022Liked by Eli Merritt

Eli, fantastic to see this newsletter! Congrats on your efforts to understand and articulate the structural and civic challenges we face, to appreciate fully what is at stake, and to detail solutions for preserving our democracy. Thank you!

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Perfectly put. That is precisely our collective challenge and mission. We are all in this together. I hope to hear from you more, Andrew. Hit me hard with your best constructive criticisms.

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Thank you for so clearly articulating what’s at stake. The reluctance (willingness?) of the Republican Party to shirk its gatekeeper responsibilities is maddening. There is some hope that the commission has forced the hand of the party to do the right thing.

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Thanks, John. As far as the Republican Party leadership is concerned, I think it’s fear combined opportunism in most and, in some, personality disorder, as with Trump. I am giving thanks today for the moral courage of the Justice Department and the FBI, as evidenced last night at Mar-a-Lago. The Constitution, it appears, is going to defeat Trump rather than vice versa. ✨

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