More damage and scariness

'These are dictator moves': Defense officials alarmed as Trump installs more loyalists at the PentagonFour defense officials, including Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, have left their posts since Trump lost the election.www.businessinsider.com

Joe Biden has announced his White House chief of staff...

Joe Biden announces Ron Klain will be White House chief of staffJoe Biden has announced that Ron Klain will be the White House chief of staff in his administration. Klain worked for Biden when he was a senator in Delaware and also as Biden's chief of staff when ...cake.co

I have a feeling things are about to get even more weird before things get better.

That said, I do think we'll see more Republicans gradually accept the results of this. They're just trying to figure out how to do so without upsetting Trump's base. It's the base they're most afraid of.

Going into today, we had Republican senators Mitt Romney (Utah), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine), and Ben Sasse (Nebraska) congratulate Biden on his victory and formally acknowledge it. We can now add one more to the list: James Lankford (Oklahoma). He said on a radio show that if Biden isn't getting his intelligence briefings by Friday, he'll step in and do something. So, we're starting to see some of them break ranks. More will follow in the coming days and weeks, I'm sure. It's just a matter of them doing so as delicately as possible.

One Mississippi Republican has apologized for suggesting his state should secede from the union. In his tweet, he misspelled secede as "succeed." So, there are a lot of clowns in the party, no doubt...

Miss. Rep. apologizes for comment suggesting Mississippi should 'succeed from the union'He is apologizing for what he calls a lack of judgement.www.wlbt.com

Justice Department's election crimes chief resigns after Barr allows prosecutors to probe voter fraud claimsA Justice Department official says the agency is "looking into" allegations of ineligible voters in Nevada and mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.www.google.com

might have missed seeing this?

Barr has certainly been pushing the limits of what he can get away with. While checking for voters fraud and asking for recounts is well within the administrations boundaries, they are clearly misleading the public or rather Republican voters. There’s getting to be a huge breakdown in trust in the USA. I don’t see this getting better when Trump starts his new media company.

I hope the new media company falls flat on its face like Quibi, and like so many other Trump projects.

Jimmy Fallon’s impression of “TNN:”
https://youtu.be/QdpDIE8tTw8

I’d love if that were true but he has an amazingly loyal following. Just look at what his followers say on Fox News comments when Fox says anything counter to Trump. Yes the most radical are the most vocal but he has an immense following.

It’s interesting that the vote went exactly opposite of what I’d expect: I would have thought the hurting areas would have voted for change.

Analysis | Biden won places that are thriving. Trump won ones that are hurting.Many places that prospered under Trump voted for Biden, bucking the standard assumption of how people vote.www.washingtonpost.com

It's easier to sell hate to people who have lost hope.

Chris,

This piece by Gordon Brown of Scotland may help you to understand why what he calls "overcentralization" is a problem in the UK,

How to save the United KingdomUntil very recently, the US looked like the West's most divided and dysfunctional democracy. Now, those on the other side of the Atlantic would be excused for pointing the finger in our direction. It is too early to say whether Britain will break up, but we can say already that it is breaking down.www.newstatesman.com

Even Gordon Brown talks about being proportional to population, the Electoral College is not that.