Toro
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So many in the GOP have gone batshit insane believing the lies and bizarre conspiracy theories of election fraud their President and lying echo-chamber media tells them.
So it's good to see some Republicans stand up to the would-be third-world tin-pot dictator trying to steal the election rather than being subsumed into the swamp of crazy that is making us a global embarrassment.
That guy is so much better than the moral cowards in the Republican leadership today who stand by and watch our democratic institutions being undermined to assuage the fragile snowflake ego of the narcissist in the White House today.
So it's good to see some Republicans stand up to the would-be third-world tin-pot dictator trying to steal the election rather than being subsumed into the swamp of crazy that is making us a global embarrassment.
After five years spent bullying the Republican Party into submission, President Donald Trump finally met his match in Aaron Van Langevelde.
Who?
That’s right. In the end, it wasn’t a senator or a judge or a general who stood up to the leader of the free world. There was no dramatic, made-for-Hollywood collision of cosmic egos. Rather, the death knell of Trump’s presidency was sounded by a baby-faced lawyer, looking over his glasses on a grainy Zoom feed on a gloomy Monday afternoon, reading from a statement that reflected a courage and moral clarity that has gone AWOL from his party, pleading with the tens of thousands of people watching online to understand that some lines can never be uncrossed.
“We must not attempt to exercise power we simply don’t have,” declared Van Langevelde, a member of Michigan’s board of state canvassers, the ministerial body with sole authority to make official Joe Biden’s victory over Trump. “As John Adams once said, 'We are a government of laws, not men.' This board needs to adhere to that principle here today. This board must do its part to uphold the rule of law and comply with our legal duty to certify this election.”
Van Langevelde is a Republican. He works for Republicans in the Statehouse. He gives legal guidance to advance Republican causes and win Republican campaigns. As a Republican, his mandate for Monday’s hearing—handed down from the state party chair, the national party chair and the president himself—was straightforward. They wanted Michigan’s board of canvassers to delay certification of Biden’s victory. Never mind that Trump lost by more than 154,000 votes, or that results were already certified in all 83 counties. The plan was to drag things out, to further muddy the election waters and delegitimize the process, to force the courts to take unprecedented actions that would forever taint Michigan’s process of certifying elections. Not because it was going to help Trump win but because it was going to help Trump cope with a loss. The president was not accepting defeat. That meant no Republican with career ambitions could accept it, either.
The Inside Story of Michigan’s Fake Voter Fraud Scandal
How a state that was never in doubt became a "national embarrassment" and a symbol of the Republican Party’s fealty to Donald Trump.
www.politico.com
That guy is so much better than the moral cowards in the Republican leadership today who stand by and watch our democratic institutions being undermined to assuage the fragile snowflake ego of the narcissist in the White House today.
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