Posted on 07/11/2021 11:23:32 AM PDT by libh8er
The greatest threat to American democracy today is not a repeat of January 6, but the possibility of a stolen presidential election. Contemporary democracies that die meet their end at the ballot box, through measures that are nominally constitutional. The looming danger is not that the mob will return; it’s that mainstream Republicans will “legally” overturn an election.
In 2018, when we wrote How Democracies Die, we knew that Donald Trump was an authoritarian figure, and we held the Republican Party responsible for abdicating its role as democratic gatekeeper. But we did not consider the GOP to be an antidemocratic party. Four years later, however, the bulk of the Republican Party is behaving in an antidemocratic manner. Solving this problem requires that we address both the acute crisis and the underlying long-term conditions that give rise to it.
Last year, for the first time in U.S. history, a sitting president refused to accept defeat and attempted to overturn election results. Rather than oppose this attempted coup, leading Republicans either cooperated with it or enabled it by refusing to publicly acknowledge Trump’s defeat. In the run-up to January 6, most top GOP officials refused to denounce extremist groups that were spreading conspiracy theories, calling for armed insurrection and assassinations, and ultimately implicated in the Capitol assault. Few Republicans broke with Trump after his incitement of the insurrection, and those who did were censured by their state parties.
From November 2020 to January 2021, then, a significant portion of the Republican Party refused to unambiguously accept electoral defeat, eschew violence, or break with extremist groups—the three principles that define prodemocracy parties. Because of that behavior, as well as its behavior over the past six months, we are convinced that the Republican Party leadership is willing to overturn an election.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
The media propagandist and especially Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt are enemies of the people.
Remember those names. Just like the Nuremberg trials, there will be no escape or leniency for coup plotters.
Translation: the Republicans are OK as long as they are Mitch McConnell subservient, but not when they will fight back like Donald Trump.
This one was just to easy to mock, a perfect thread for Freepers to tear the Atlantic’s argument apart.
Anyone in the media or government saying we live in a democracy needs to be mocked relentlessly. //
Bears repeating.
Pushing the illegals and dead people off the rolls is “stealing” the election by Democrat lights. Everybody on earth has a right to vote in American elections as many times as they can.
the possibility of a stolen presidential election.\
I thought the left said election theft can’t happen ?
What ? They think honest folk will learn how to FORTIFY an election dems style ?.
Even if we wanted to, we wouldn’t.
Party refused to unambiguously accept electoral defeat, eschew violence, or break with extremist groups—\*
Hey pal,
We’re you asleep or just high the whole year of antifa and blm burning looting and murdering while Kampala and ilk provided bail and Soros D.A.’s dropped charges while Maxine waters and crew egged them on ?
You convince no one ya pathetic dirt bag commie CCP lover.
Complete dissociation from reality.
Very common for liberals and leftists and these guys are professors where it is obligatory.
“Their projection is utterly stunning.”
They forgot to mention that Republicans also want to defund the police.
They have to stir up the crazies now incase they can’t steal the next election ,LOL
lolololol.
This whole article is spelling out how to become a tyranny. Nothing but disingenuous lies.
I believe the Republicans are in on the Steal.
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Oh Yes, no doubt whatever in my mind that GOP apparatchiks in key positions Federal and State were and are complicit in the Steal.
Classic projection.
we are convinced that the Republican Party leadership is willing to overturn an election.
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Well, since everyone on the planet knows the election process was massively fraudulent in a half dozen or more States, all patriotic Americans are praying that it is overturned!
Is it stealing if you steal back a stolen election?
It torches the Democrats' argument that election fraud never happens.
Slandering bastards.
Such people, and I’m using that word in the broadest sense possible, always, always, always, always accuse others of doing precisely the evil that they themselves are guilty of doing...
...or are planning to do.
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