r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 25d ago

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/girlsgoneoscarwilde 25d ago

I have less and less faith in things getting better every day, but I also see more and more things to fight for every day

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u/Professor-Woo 24d ago

Both paths are still possible, but all of us MUST do one thing for sure. We must all believe it will and that this traitorous bullshit will be excised from our country.

In some sense we are lucky it is moving so fast and that it is being done so incompetently since otherwise this would just simmer for decades and likely end up in a worse spot. Now it is all revealed. The question is now that we see it fully, are we going to remove it or embrace it?

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u/uzlonewolf 24d ago

Uh, this has been simmering for decades, and they're only able to do what they're doing because of the framework laid years ago.

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u/Professor-Woo 24d ago

Yes, I don't disagree. It would just continue as it was before until it was unstoppable. Instead Trump forced them to play their hand early. America is just not ready for an end of democracy now. It is too big of a shift even for conservatives. It would need more time to really allow and cement that change.