Chillicothe
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As anybody who can fog a mirror knows by now, Mike Pence has had a rather rough patch to hoe since accepting the offer to be VP. Evangelical Mike had been earlier dissed for turning a blind eye to the boss's alleged serial adultery; to the boss's Trump University & fake charity frauds. As a responsible evangelical Mike may not get real high marks.
But we ain't here to talk about how good...or bad....a christianist Mike Pence is or was.
What has put Mike in the spotlight is the growing perception that he acted somewhat heroic in his refusal to go along with the conspiracy hatched by Trump and enablers to steal the election. Mike's actions on January 6th may not have been 'heroic' in intent, but they appear to be heroic....in effect. Meaning, he saved America from a dangerous period of a high-risk Constitutional crisis.
There is a growing perception ---thanks in great part to the work of the Select Committe, and the prosecutors in New York and Georgia, and good sleuthing & sourcing by Amercan media reporters --- that what America experienced in the 60+ days between November 4th and January 6th was a sustained attack on our most defining feature of our democracy.....our free and fair vote.
More and more information is being revealed that Don Trump and his enablers sought to and did, in fact, enact a multi-prong strategy to take the vote away from Joe Biden and give it to Trump.
In today's Washington Post, there is an absolutely informative 'road map'.....'play sheet'......of what all of America observed in those 60 days. It is an opinion piece. Written by Phillip Bump.
I don't know how many here subscribe to WaPo. If you do, well you can readily access the opinion piece. For those who don't ...well, sometimes you can 'back-door' your way to such restricted articles by using YouTube, sometimes Google.
At any rate, here is the link. And a taster on what Bump defines as the efforts to overturn our 2020 election and the will of the people. (emphasis is by my avatar.)
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"As we continue to learn details of how Trump scrambled to block Joe Biden’s victory in the weeks after the 2020 election — like the report Monday evening that Trump considered various options for seizing voting machines — it is useful to fit what we know into an overarching framework. No part of the scheming by Trump and his allies is disconnected from the rest; each intertwines into an ad hoc, three-pronged ploy.
As you review Trump’s efforts, patterns become apparent. While the overall effort to seize a second term in office was lengthy and complicated, none of the individual efforts to advance it went very far. This was almost never a function of Trump’s simply realizing that he was overreaching or his coming to understand that he was inappropriately crossing a boundary. It was, instead, because those against whom he was applying pressure resisted. At times, this was virtuous, as with Vice President Mike Pence’s refusal to execute the last-ditch effort to block electoral-vote counting. At other times, it seems likely that the actions were self-serving, as when Trump’s attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani objected to the seizure of voting machines as advocated by his rival, the attorney Sidney Powell. But it was others, including state-level institutions and even local actors, who applied the brakes to the plot. It was almost never Trump.
Here’s what we know about how it played out, in rough chronological order. Each item is identified as being either part of the effort to prove fraud or to get officials to act on the idea that fraud had occurred. Except for the last item on the list, which stands alone.
But we ain't here to talk about how good...or bad....a christianist Mike Pence is or was.
What has put Mike in the spotlight is the growing perception that he acted somewhat heroic in his refusal to go along with the conspiracy hatched by Trump and enablers to steal the election. Mike's actions on January 6th may not have been 'heroic' in intent, but they appear to be heroic....in effect. Meaning, he saved America from a dangerous period of a high-risk Constitutional crisis.
There is a growing perception ---thanks in great part to the work of the Select Committe, and the prosecutors in New York and Georgia, and good sleuthing & sourcing by Amercan media reporters --- that what America experienced in the 60+ days between November 4th and January 6th was a sustained attack on our most defining feature of our democracy.....our free and fair vote.
More and more information is being revealed that Don Trump and his enablers sought to and did, in fact, enact a multi-prong strategy to take the vote away from Joe Biden and give it to Trump.
In today's Washington Post, there is an absolutely informative 'road map'.....'play sheet'......of what all of America observed in those 60 days. It is an opinion piece. Written by Phillip Bump.
I don't know how many here subscribe to WaPo. If you do, well you can readily access the opinion piece. For those who don't ...well, sometimes you can 'back-door' your way to such restricted articles by using YouTube, sometimes Google.
At any rate, here is the link. And a taster on what Bump defines as the efforts to overturn our 2020 election and the will of the people. (emphasis is by my avatar.)
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"The sloppy, patchwork, spaghetti-at-the-wall effort to steal the presidency"
"As we continue to learn details of how Trump scrambled to block Joe Biden’s victory in the weeks after the 2020 election — like the report Monday evening that Trump considered various options for seizing voting machines — it is useful to fit what we know into an overarching framework. No part of the scheming by Trump and his allies is disconnected from the rest; each intertwines into an ad hoc, three-pronged ploy.
- He tried to prove fraud.
- He tried to get elections officials to act as if there had been fraud.
- And then he just tried to steal the election.
As you review Trump’s efforts, patterns become apparent. While the overall effort to seize a second term in office was lengthy and complicated, none of the individual efforts to advance it went very far. This was almost never a function of Trump’s simply realizing that he was overreaching or his coming to understand that he was inappropriately crossing a boundary. It was, instead, because those against whom he was applying pressure resisted. At times, this was virtuous, as with Vice President Mike Pence’s refusal to execute the last-ditch effort to block electoral-vote counting. At other times, it seems likely that the actions were self-serving, as when Trump’s attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani objected to the seizure of voting machines as advocated by his rival, the attorney Sidney Powell. But it was others, including state-level institutions and even local actors, who applied the brakes to the plot. It was almost never Trump.
Here’s what we know about how it played out, in rough chronological order. Each item is identified as being either part of the effort to prove fraud or to get officials to act on the idea that fraud had occurred. Except for the last item on the list, which stands alone.
