Posted on 10/20/2022 5:52:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There is nothing “unprecedented” about challenging election results. And for Democrats, there’s nothing unprecedented in trying to manipulate them.
A Democratic myth has arisen that Donald Trump’s denial of the accuracy of the 2020 vote was “unprecedented.”
Unfortunately, the history of U.S. elections is often a story of both legitimate and illegitimate election denialism.
The 1800, 1824, 1876, and 1960 elections were all understandably questioned. In some of these cases, a partisan House of Representatives decided the winner.
Presidential candidate Al Gore in 2000 did not accept the popular vote results in Florida. He spent five weeks futilely contesting the state’s tally—until recounts and the Supreme Court certified it.
The ensuing charge that George W. Bush was “selected not elected” was the Democrats’ denialist mantra for years.
In 2004, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and 31 Democratic House members voted not to certify the Ohio election results in their unhinged efforts to overturn the election. Those denialists included the current sanctimonious chairman of the January 6 select committee, U.S. Representative Benny Thompson (D-Miss).
After 2016, crackpot Democratic orthodoxy for years insisted that Donald Trump had “colluded” with Russia to “steal” certain victory from Hillary Clinton.
Clinton herself claimed that Trump was not a “legitimate” president. No wonder she loudly joined #TheResistance to obstruct his presidency.
The serial denialist Clinton later urged Joe Biden not to concede the 2020 election if he lost.
Also after 2016, left-wing third-party candidate and denialist Jill Stein vainly sued in courts to disqualify voting machine results in preselected states.
A denialist host of Hollywood C-list actors in 2016 cut television commercials begging members of the Electoral College to violate their oaths and instead flip the election to Hillary Clinton.
Clinton herself had hired foreign national Christopher Steele to concoct a dossier of untruths
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There does not seem to be much that the left does that is legitimate.
VDH ping
So this is where VDH wound up. Always thought it would be cool to see him played by John Malkovich in a film about Conservatism Inc skulduggery.
JFK was helped to election by Richard J Daley in Chicago. The Democrats have always been willing to manipulate election outcomes.
Who denies election fraud?
They argued power should be given to technocrats; and of course, the technocrats would have to be Progressives.
The term “election denial” doesn’t even make sense. I don’t think anyone is denying that an election occurred.
We should use the term “Election fraud denier” for the Media though. They deny that fraud happens in just about all elections, probably all.
If you protest, dispute, or even ask about the results of the crooked 2020 election, you're labeled an "Election Denier". Libs want you jailed, or renditioned to a CIA Black Site for merely questioning the scenarios that saddled us with a brain damaged, career crooked politician and his "Ho" VP.
This whole “election denier” thing is weird, yet telling. About a year ago, there was an article by a guy who went on the Andrew Sullivan show to talk about the election.
The author’s position was the election was a fraud, but as a result Biden is in office, and he simply had to accept that. But that wasn’t good enough for AS and others. They hounded him for believing there was election fraud and he needed to change his mind about that.
He listed multiple election discrepancies that convinced him there was total fraud. His point was he wondered why it was so important to these people that he not only must accept the result but must admit everything about the election vote-counting was done exactly right.
The problem is that about half the 1980-2012 bellwether counties went for Clinton in 2016, so the remaining ones were likely to go for Trump in 2020.
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