1/ Moderate Republicans are the most important people in the world right now. More comments on the #ElectoralCollegelRiot from a political sociologist.

2/ Right now, we have a severe problem: as long as you can gather up a critical number of primary voters, you can do some very horrible things, like incite a riot that gets 2 police officers killed.
3/ So what can be done? Part of the solution is relatively easy: criminal charges. We need a bright line. Free speech is ok, riots should be met with prison sentences every time.
4/ But part of the solution is much harder. Getting moderate Republican politicians and voters to punish people. They have more power to fix the situation than any other group right now.
5/ We've seen some honorable exceptions, like Corker and Schwarzenegger, and that is promising. But we've seen a suprising level of silence from the groups that are important moderate parts of the GOP coalition.
6/ There is at least one report that GOP legislators supported disputing the election because of fears of personal safety. https://t.co/Y3UjYsube6
7/ Shreiking democrats will not solve this problem, even though they need to keep the pressure on. Moderate Republican voters and interest groups need to step up in much larger numbers and say, "we have your back. You can be anti-Trump and safe and keep your seat."
8/ If we really want to banish the hoodlum wing of the party, we need an army of police unions, lady's republican clubs, and business groups to say "enough is enough."
9/ Bottom line: Sadly, we will always have people who are thugs, xenophobes, and racists. The issue is how the middle treats them. It is time for the Republican middle to take their party. If it is not now, it's never.

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My piece in the NY Times today: "the Trump administration is denying applications submitted to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services at a rate 37 percent higher than the Obama administration did in 2016."

Based on this analysis: "Denials for immigration benefits—travel documents, work permits, green cards, worker petitions, etc.—increased 37 percent since FY 2016. On an absolute basis, FY 2018 will see more than about 155,000 more denials than FY 2016."
https://t.co/Bl0naOO0sh


"This increase in denials cannot be credited to an overall rise in applications. In fact, the total number of applications so far this year is 2 percent lower than in 2016. It could be that the higher denial rate is also discouraging some people from applying at all.."

Thanks to @gsiskind for his insightful comments. The increase in denials, he said, is “significant enough to make one think that Congress must have passed legislation changing the requirements. But we know they have not.”

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