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Revealed

by David Kurtz
01.20.21 | 2:02 pm

The story we had ready if Trump had won re-election.

Also, special after-the-fact reaction from one of the experts on authoritarianism we had talked to for that story.

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David Kurtz is TPM's editor at large.
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