<div dir="ltr">The federal government manages elections in Canada, and basically every other country in the world.<div>"If we proposed this, it would be awesome, but he wants it, so it's terrible" is doing a little too much work here.</div><div><br></div><div>[Also "our proposed powers and legal infrastructure would be a national disaster if the other party was ever elected" is not the flex they think it is, and is really a fully general argument for principled libertarianism.]<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 3:59 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.<br><br>Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections<br><br>The comments, made on a conservative podcast, follow a string of moves from his administration to try to exert more control over American elections.<br><br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/trump-nationalize-elections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.en-q.1F5B4oljkawg&smid=em-share" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/trump-nationalize-elections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.en-q.1F5B4oljkawg&smid=em-share</a></div>
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