When The Strike Force is Not With You

“At least some state and local Republican officials have defied the President and asserted the simple truth that so many of their fellow-Republicans in Washington have failed to acknowledge: the election was free, fair, and decisive.” The New Yorker: State and Local Republicans Standing Up to Trump Are Putting National G.O.P. Leaders to Shame.

+ Mitt Romney’s inspirations for bucking his party: his dad and his Black grandson.

+ “The Trump campaign’s legal team moved to distance itself Sunday from the firebrand conservative attorney after a tumultuous several days in which Powell made multiple incorrect statements about the voting process, unspooled unsupported and complex conspiracy theories and vowed to ‘blow up’ Georgia with a ‘biblical’ court filing.” Trump campaign legal team distances itself from Sidney Powell. It’s really something when a guy who gave a presser at a landscaping company and who was leaking sludge from his temples thinks you’re too whacked out to associate with.

+ “The coup was a farce at the time but how soon it turned to tragedy. They called it a constitutional crisis, but how soon it became a real one. Right now, the same thing is happening to you. I’m trying to warn you America. It seems stupid now, but the consequences are not. You’re being coup’d.” I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now.

+ Loren Culp lost Washington’s gubernatorial race by more than 545,000 votes, but he’s not conceding. (Great, now everyone’s doing it.)

+ What if Trump won’t leave the White House? A hostage negotiator, an animal-control officer, and a toddler whisperer have advice.