What's at stake in America right now is much larger than the liberal vs conservative agendas we know so well.

What's at stake right now is the rule of law, free speech, equal protection and the integrity of our branches of government. Some examples: /1
Legislators are attempting to court pack in order to fix the outcome of judicial review. The Supreme Court is dangerously close to losing its independence as a branch of government distinct from lawmakers.

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One online bookseller - @amazon - controls access to the majority of America's books. And it has begun deleting ideologically-disfavored content, with the apparent approval of the @ACLU

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If we lose things like rule of law and freedom of expression and separation of powers, there is no going back. There won't be a pendulum left to swing.

This makes these issues nothing like tax rates, health-care, drug policy or even foreign policy, important as those are. /6
To save America, a lot of us are going to have to abandon our Liberal vs Conservative silos -- and we're going to have to do it now. /e
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