GET ME REWRITE: The Wisconsin Elections Commission, just a normal group of people

Source:  Wisconsin Election Commission (grid) Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (dollars)

Wisconsin Elections Commission deadlocks, keeps voters on the rolls for now.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12/30/2019)

It was the second time in as many weeks that the commission broke down along party lines over the lawsuit, which has drawn national attention because of Wisconsin’s top-tier status in the 2020 presidential race. 

Monday's commission meeting came as election officials provided new estimates that suggested a smaller number of voters than originally believed — about 144,000 — could be at risk of being taken off the rolls. 

The commission in October sent letters to more than 230,000 voters who it believes may have moved because they provided new addresses to the post office, state Division of Motor Vehicles or other government agencies.

Commission members, mapped.

Watching Scotty grovel

@ScottWalker

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The Trump GOP/German National Socialists connection

If "strongman" and lover of strongmen Trump can expand his base of supporters who have a "proclivity toward authoritarianism", then we are in trouble.

Source:  Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism

Columnist outlines the frightening similarities between Trump’s America and 1930’s Germany.  (Raw Story, 12/30/2019)

“A polarizing would-be despot as national leader, rising anti-Semitism, an out-of-control upper bureaucracy, a politicized media and education systems, an economically stressed middle class, widespread dalliance with extremist ideologies and the rise of armed militant groups,” Kotkin writes. “America’s descent to authoritarianism is far from pre-ordained, but the reality remains that it could happen here, and perhaps already is.”

On 1 May 2015, the new Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism opened as a place of education and remembrance documenting and addressing the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship and their origins, manifestations and consequences right up to the present day. 

A view of a small sliver of the Centre's thought-provoking exhibit is shown below.  Donald Trump and his takeover of the Republican Party frequently came to mind as I walked through it.

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