Brooks Brothers Riot: Republican operatives from DC posed as Florida voters in order to stop votes for Gore from being counted. Many are still in politics and media, acting all shocked (incl. MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, who was Bush II's comms director) Charlatans then and charlatans now.
Jack Smith's filing on Trump's election crimes contains an important reference to the Brooks Brothers Riot, the moment in 2000 that birthed our current political nightmare. I explain here: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-distur...
A callback to the Brooks Brothers Riot, a seminal moment in the intimidation of election officials.
In a way, they've been rioting ever since.
It was contrived, fake, orchestrated, and successfully sold to a credulous media and apparently is now the foundation of GOP political strategy.
One of them is on the supreme court
I didn't realize that one episode of Veep was a reference to *this*.
I think what shocks them (and has slowly dawned on them) is that the current crop really means what they say, unlike their cohort who were just adopting poses out of a mix of ambition and cynicism.