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.
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Obvious projection. Measures that are “nominally constitutional”; as opposed to democrat measures that are nominally unconstitutional, and as well by any other calculus.
Starting to sow those seeds of doubt, discontent and evil in preparation for the landslide that is going to cover them next year and in ‘24.
How come they get to throw crap like that his out there and folks believe it, but when we do it, because the left actually cheated, we get banned and canceled?
Don’t bother answering... Isn’t rehtorical folks.
Get your children out of Harvard, their safety depends on it.
What a couple of clowns. It’s a lunatic conspiracy theory to say that Dems stole an election, but now they are saying - with no evidence whatsoever - that Republicans will do it in three years.
That is just funny.
Beside the fact that the GOP never wants to win the majority. Senators like mcconnell and graham are in their seats for ever they prefer to not be in the majority. They do not care about any other election and they shoo Themselves inTo their own.
They sure as sh$t don’t ever want nor defend the gop presidency.
This is a joke
The Atlantic should be ashamed
The Atlantic are crazed elitist creeps.
Anything from The Atlantic is straight from the Dem parties mouth. Seems they are worried about elections being honest.
Anyone in the media or government saying we live in a democracy needs to be mocked relentlessly. Never let up. Just keep piling on.
WTF are these morons smoking?
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
Oddly I don’t find either of these guys names on the rolls of the Continental Line, or any of the militia regiments fighting at places like Kings Mountain, the Cowpens, Alamance...
Hilarious that they rap about democracy. It’s something they had nothing to do with, other then perverting it to the Russian Communist version.
Republicans are too stupid to learn how to steal elections....
If we wanted to steal an election at least we know who to ask how to do it best and it’s not other Republicans.
Republicans point to actual election fraud. Democrats hyperventilate over their fantasies.
Which is the lie?
Well stated and insightful.
And a good sign. They have to get the cheating down right because they actually sound afraid now that the people may honestly vote them out of the House and Senate control if it is a fair election. Good points.
Well Harvard professor, I believe the democrats etc. stole the 2020 election and there is substantial evidence that should be heard in a court of law.
Now.
5.56mm
They think this kind of crap buttresses their position that there’s no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election. The audits have them apoplectic about getting caught for their fraud.
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