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Why Democrats Must Retain Control of Congress in 2022
www.realclearpolitics.com
4 Aug 2021 ~~ By Morton Kondracke
The 2020 election demonstrated how fragile our democracy is. As Donald Trump tried, by means both legal and illegal, to overturn the results of a free and fair election, only the courts and a thin line of courageous Republican election officials guaranteed that the peoples’ choice prevailed.
But the safeguards are weaker. Although the Supreme Court upheld the last lower-court dismissal of multiple Trump-inspired lawsuits charging election fraud, in July the court upheld new voting restrictions enacted in Arizona.
And many of the Republican election officials who refused to back up Trump’s bogus fraud charges have been threatened, fired, or are being challenged for reelection by Trump followers. Meanwhile, 17 Republican-controlled state legislatures have joined Arizona in making voting more difficult: In several of them, legislators are trying to seize control of election management, including power to replace county election officials or even decide how a state’s election results should be certified, regardless of the popular vote.
Republicans claim they are acting restore faith in elections, but—with fraud repeatedly shown to be rare and of no effect in in 2020—Trump and his followers are really undermining faith in American elections.
Republicans have shown that they simply can’t be trusted to safeguard democracy. Donald Trump now owns the Republican Party as GOP politicians up and down the line do his bidding, out of fear or belief.
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If, next November, the GOP captures one chamber—most likely, the House—whatever Biden can get done in his first two years can’t be easily undone, but he will get nothing more passed. If the GOP gets control of both chambers, Republicans will try to reverse anything he has accomplished. He’ll have only his veto pen as protection. Stalemate from 2023 through 2024—and an unsuccessful-seeming Biden presidency—could reelect Trump (or someone backed by him), in which case constitutional norms and respect for election results and the rule of law would again be in peril.
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The biggest issue in the campaign, though, is whether the electorate wants to return power to a party whose leaders are in the thrall of a man who has countenanced violence and illegality to keep himself in power. Ultimately, it’s a test of Americans’ trust in democracy.
Comment:
Mort Kondrake is not Democrat nor is he a true conservative,, however in this article it shows his dislike for Trump and the the Republican Party. In some ways Mort has become a spokesman for the Democrats for 2022.
While up to now, I've accepted and respected Mr. Kondracke opinion, I would DISAGREE with him on almost everything he wrote here, and he perfectly illustrates why Biden's Democrats must be taken out in 2022 in landslide proportions, ridding America of socialism once and for all.
Perhaps his age is showing when he fails to consider that this same administration threatening Americans with mask and vaccine mandates is not only allowing thousand of tested positive for Covid-19 illegals to enter our nation, but is actively helping them disperse throughout it--talking about Democrats in the context of "Trusting Democracy" is utterly laughable.
Why Democrats Must Retain Control of Congress in 2022 | RealClearPolitics
The 2020 election demonstrated how fragile our democracy is. As Donald Trump tried, by means both legal and illegal, to overturn the results of a free and fair...
The 2020 election demonstrated how fragile our democracy is. As Donald Trump tried, by means both legal and illegal, to overturn the results of a free and fair election, only the courts and a thin line of courageous Republican election officials guaranteed that the peoples’ choice prevailed.
But the safeguards are weaker. Although the Supreme Court upheld the last lower-court dismissal of multiple Trump-inspired lawsuits charging election fraud, in July the court upheld new voting restrictions enacted in Arizona.
And many of the Republican election officials who refused to back up Trump’s bogus fraud charges have been threatened, fired, or are being challenged for reelection by Trump followers. Meanwhile, 17 Republican-controlled state legislatures have joined Arizona in making voting more difficult: In several of them, legislators are trying to seize control of election management, including power to replace county election officials or even decide how a state’s election results should be certified, regardless of the popular vote.
Republicans claim they are acting restore faith in elections, but—with fraud repeatedly shown to be rare and of no effect in in 2020—Trump and his followers are really undermining faith in American elections.
Republicans have shown that they simply can’t be trusted to safeguard democracy. Donald Trump now owns the Republican Party as GOP politicians up and down the line do his bidding, out of fear or belief.
~snip~
If, next November, the GOP captures one chamber—most likely, the House—whatever Biden can get done in his first two years can’t be easily undone, but he will get nothing more passed. If the GOP gets control of both chambers, Republicans will try to reverse anything he has accomplished. He’ll have only his veto pen as protection. Stalemate from 2023 through 2024—and an unsuccessful-seeming Biden presidency—could reelect Trump (or someone backed by him), in which case constitutional norms and respect for election results and the rule of law would again be in peril.
~Snip~
The biggest issue in the campaign, though, is whether the electorate wants to return power to a party whose leaders are in the thrall of a man who has countenanced violence and illegality to keep himself in power. Ultimately, it’s a test of Americans’ trust in democracy.
Comment:
Mort Kondrake is not Democrat nor is he a true conservative,, however in this article it shows his dislike for Trump and the the Republican Party. In some ways Mort has become a spokesman for the Democrats for 2022.
While up to now, I've accepted and respected Mr. Kondracke opinion, I would DISAGREE with him on almost everything he wrote here, and he perfectly illustrates why Biden's Democrats must be taken out in 2022 in landslide proportions, ridding America of socialism once and for all.
Perhaps his age is showing when he fails to consider that this same administration threatening Americans with mask and vaccine mandates is not only allowing thousand of tested positive for Covid-19 illegals to enter our nation, but is actively helping them disperse throughout it--talking about Democrats in the context of "Trusting Democracy" is utterly laughable.
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