schmidlap
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Trump warned that the ballot would be “rigged!” The Republican candidate Larry Elder predicted “shenanigans!” The conservative media star Tomi Lahren suggested that “voter fraud!” was inevitable.
The attempt to sew distrust in California’s recall effort began well before the Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, scored a crushing victory on Tuesday, thwarting Elder and other Republicans who hoped to replace him.
The barrage of mendacious claims echoed Trump’s “BIG LIE!" of a stolen presidential election and were equally baseless. But, crucially, they also demonstrated that
undermining faith in election integrity has become normalized as a
strategy for many Republicans facing defeat at the ballot box.
Contriving to make it more difficult for Americans to vote when they are likely to vote against you, and manipulating districts to minimize the impact of the opposition, are typical stratagems to kick above one's weight level in politics (Two Senate votes for a state with a population of 40 million, 20 Senate votes for ten sparsely-populated states whose combined populace approximates that is an inherent partisan advantage.) , but the latest feature - in garish, flashing, neon, casino-style marquee letters is,
"Democracy Sucks! If WE lose, it's FAKE!"
Of course, such self-serving paranoidal cynicism is a negation of democratic elections themselves.
Cry Baby Loser has long whined about elections in which the will of the People does not comport with is own as "fake!", "fixed!" or "stolen!" - an overwhelming amount of empirical data contradicting the evidence-free egomaniacal tantrum, notwithstanding.
Has the Republican Party now become a cult of cry baby losers who will emulate the crapping upon free and fair elections whenever the public will of Americans is not to their liking?
"Apres MOI, le déluge!"
His goons attacking Congress is a disgusting manifestation of this contempt for democracy.
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