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With Biden having been declared the winner (for now) by major media outlets, I figured it would be a good time to share some of the people who’ve threatened retribution against Trump supporters.

The list is a lot longer than I had anticipated it would be

It wouldn’t be right to start with anyone but @RBReich, who I will remind you was **Secretary of Labor** under Bill Clinton and is here calling for the extralegal prosecution of his political opponents as part of a truth and reconciliation commission.

You would think such an idea was roundly refuted, just one blue check going off the reservation.

You would be wrong. Here’s @MSNBC’s @chrislhayes, one of the key voices on one of the largest networks, echoing the same sentiment.

The list goes on. There were plenty of blue checks throwing this idea around. Here we have @jvagle and @treygraham.

I need you all to take a moment and appreciate how utterly batshit this thread from @SteveSchmidtSES is.

At least we’ll know what hats they’ll be wearing when they start rounding folks up, thanks to @jamieleecurtis

They’re doubling down on this perspective today, which is comforting. Here’s @quinncy.

We had A LOT of think pieces on the subject. Here we have @inthesetimesmag.

But they were far from alone.

We had the sentiment here from @ElieNYC for @thenation.

Perhaps my favorite think piece comes from @Will_Bunch for @PhillyInquirer, just normal stuff for a major publication to run.

It surprises me precisely zero percent that @Salon would give voice to this perspective.

@sbg1 had a conversation with - I shit you not - @AVindman (!!) suggesting the same thing.

The latest suggestion was the keeping of lists for anyone who supported the president.

A sitting member of Congress, @AOC, demanded one.

Full Bolshevik.

And she wasn’t alone in her demands.

Of course, the Never Trump crew piled on for this one. Here we’ve got @JRubinBlogger and @EvanMcMullin.

My supporting the latter is a stain I will never be able to wash off.

Obligatory @kurteichenwald mention.

Thankfully for all of them, there is already one in the works! We had the “Trump Accountability Project” led by @HariSevugan.

Nothing says “healthy democracy” like “now that we’ve won, who has the list of our enemies handy?” right, Hari?

There’s apparently a bunch of blue checks involved in this one. Here’s @mbsimon, replying to @AOC, in very normal, totally not threatening at all, fashion.

At the end of the day, I can’t imagine these folks will be shipping conservatives off to the gulags in a divided government, much as they would like to.

But it fundamentally cuts against the spirit of America to suggest someone should be punished for their political views.

We are not some post-genocide society. The suggestion that we need a Rwandan-styled Truth and Reconciliation Commission is preposterous. And free societies don’t develop political hit lists.

This champagne fascism from the Left needs to stop. Now would be a good time.

Anyway, congrats to @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris for their victory (at least until we hear on appeals). Perhaps, once the champagne has finished flowing, it would behoove of both of you to think about why your victory gives even some people who weren’t wild about Trump real pause.

And if you’ve read this far you probably don’t need to hear it from me, but you don’t need to be excited or celebratory about an electoral victory for someone whose supporters want to punish you for thoughtcrimes.

This is eventually just going to be a thread of @chrislhayes saying that we need to catalogue and punish Republicans.