Posted on 03/08/2017 1:38:18 PM PST by realDan
Donald Trump’s Threat to Reject Election Results Alarms Scholars
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Donald J. Trump’s suggestions that he might reject the results of the American election as illegitimate have unnerved scholars on democratic decline, who say his language echoes that of dictators who seize power by force and firebrand populists who weaken democracy for personal gain.
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In weak democracies around the world, scholars warned Friday, political leaders have used the same language to erode popular faith in democracy — often intending to incite violence that will serve their political aims, and sometimes to undo democracy entirely.
The United States is not at risk of such worst-case scenarios. American democratic norms and institutions are too strong for any one politician to destabilize. But Mr. Trump’s language, the scholars say, follows a similar playbook and could pose real, if less extreme, risks.
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Contesting a presidential election, he said, risks turning bedrock democratic assumptions — rule of law, the peaceful transfer of power, the sanctity of elections — into points of political dispute.
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“When you start to delegitimize your system, including your electoral systems, your media and the police in different ways, then you start to have people genuinely questioning the value of the system,” Mr. Cheeseman said. “It takes a generation to rebuild that trust. This is not something that gets done in a year or two.”
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And yet that is what the Dems did.
Woopsie!
Hahaha…it’s delicious to read this tripe and remember that on Oct. 23, the Slimes, all Leftist media, the fake polls, and Democrats everywhere were positive Hillary was going to win. Now, they’ve fallen, and they can’t get up. Pray they never do.
What people haven’t figured out yet, is that communication in all forms, newsprint, webpages, video, pictures, are all recorded and can be found in an instant and be used to show contradiction and hypocrisy.
Obama to Trump: ‘Stop whining’ about rigged election
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-trump-stop-whining-rigged-election-article-1.2835305
The hypocritical scum of the NY Times and their ilk will never be able to acknowledge the dishonesty that they have displayed at every turn.
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Leftists can hold two contradictory thoughts in their heads at the same time. In other words, they don’t have thoughts or ideas. It’s whatever suits their needs at the time.
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