Trump fired all three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, abruptly disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration at a moment when Trump has sought to reshape federal voting rules.
The two Democratic commissioners, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, were notified by email. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” the email said. It was signed by Morgan DeWitt Snow, deputy director of presidential personnel in the Executive Office of the President.
The third commissioner, Republican Christy McCormick, was allowed to resign, according to three sources within the agency. McCormick declined to comment when reached by phone. The agency’s fourth commissioner, Republican Donald Palmer, voluntarily departed the agency earlier this year to join the Heritage Foundation.
Oh then do enlighten me. Tell me what you meant when you said:
Because I guarantee somewhere in your explanation it will amount to “Those fucking leftists need to learn to respect their centerist elders.”
Dude. You’re doing it now.
I never said anything about “centrist elders.” You’re making that shit up so you can feel leftier-than-thou.
Go ahead. Prove me wrong.
Prove you wrong about what? You made baseless assertions. This isn’t worth bickering over, because unlike you I’m not intent on cannibalizing the left.
Tell me what you meant when you said:
Prove my assertions wrong.
You’re just sealioning now, and this is exactly what I mean by cannibalizing. You make a bunch of assumptions about me so that you can attack because you think I’m not as left as you, and you have no basis for that other than your own self-righteousness. This is not an isolated incident either, there are lots of people like you who are more concerned with arguing with other leftists for not passing your purity tests than you are with actually resisting fascism if it means working with leftists who are slightly differently left than you.