Yes, I had overlooked the reference to state electors. 200 it is, or <0.01% margin in this case. (View Post)

Yes, the margin for an automatic recount needs to be within 0.1% of the combined Biden + Trump vote and no requests are otherwise allowed. Based on the ballots cast so far that would be about 3,300 c… (View Post)

Yes, I think we have to put Hitler himself to one side as what he turned out to be is a distraction. The issue is the man as he appeared in 1932/33 to the German conservatives, to illustrate the pote… (View Post)

You have a president quite clearly willing to subvert democracy if it suits him, and a political class in his party willing to go along with it. A large chunk of the electorate is willing to give him… (View Post)

Thanks. To be honest, I always found it quite difficult to understand just how vulnerable the democratic institutions of Germany were to the appeal of fascism. Yes, the economic circumstances were ex… (View Post)