I should have said major voter fraud. Small amounts of fraud alway occur, but they've never been enough to even come close to altering results plus the penalties are stiff if caught.
Well…we can thank Mitch for starting down that road then can’t we? That said, I don’t support eliminating it and neither do a lot of Dems. It would be very short sighted. But I do support making it a lot more painful and harder to accomplish. It has now become as easy as the push of a button and has turned into a tool used to automatically obstruct anything and everything on purely partisan grounds (for both parties). Packing the Supreme Court? Again, let’s give a hand to Mitch for changing the norms regarding SCOTUS nominations. Both unprecedented and destructive to the entire process. But that said, packing the courts hasn’t happened (like eliminating the filibuster hasn’t) and is very very unlikely. Unlike Republicans, I think Dems are very aware of what precedents might be set and how destructive it could to so politicize the court. Except maybe the far left progressive wing….
What Trump did that is so damaging to our country was sowing false claims of rigging and massive fraud prior to and after the 2020 election, then, when all avenues traditionally used to contest results came up with no significant fraud, continued to claim it. He went so far as to coerce Republican election officials to change their minds, to deliberately build up anger in his base, to create the events that led to January 6th. By refusing to handover power in a peaceful transfer and by continuing to claim fraud, he significantly damaged one our most important institutions of Democracy. On side, all of this ultimately flowed down into a messy, flawed and inadequate transition which could have security impacts on our country. Nothing the Democrats are currently doing go anywhere near that imo.
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