Posted on 10/25/2021 5:23:33 AM PDT by RandFan
A reminder — the one-year anniversary of the 2020 presidential election is days away.
Yes, it is quite the milestone because the losing candidate, Donald Trump, still refuses to concede that he lost.
Get this — Trump now declares that Republicans won’t vote in the 2022 midterms or the 2024 presidential election if fraud is not uncovered to show he was the winner of the 2020 race.
Yet, most Republicans in Congress are still marching along with this farce, which is getting dangerously close to throwing GOP chances of gaining a majority in the House in 2022 over the edge — along with American democracy.
Republican political insiders are in a fright over Trump’s threat to tell their voters to stay home. They saw his lies about fraud depress GOP turnout for Senate candidates in Georgia in two run-off elections in January. They want Trump to quiet down.
But Trump feels he is bigger than the Republican Party. He feels free to crank up the volume.
Trump is now boldly asking followers in Congress to show their devotion to him by derailing the House investigation into the murderous assault on the Capitol by his supporters.
The “real insurrection,” he said last week, came not in the violence at the Capitol but on Election Day 2020.
Trump is also making a stir by trying to stop the facts about his behavior on Jan. 6 from becoming public. He is claiming executive privilege to keep White House records from the time of the insurrection away from Congress.
And he is advising his former aides not to testify about the Jan. 6 attempt to overthrow the government.
The House, along mostly party lines, responded by voting to hold Steve Bannon, one of Trump’s advisors, in criminal contempt for defying its subpoena.
But most House Republicans continue standing by Trump and Bannon.
According to a New York Times report last week, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has sent out word that GOP lobbyists and consultants risk blacklisting if they work with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Trump’s most prominent critic among Capitol Hill Republicans.
Incredibly, most Republican voters still dance to the chaotic beat of Trump’s lies.
A majority, 66 percent of Republicans, told a Yahoo News/YouGov poll in August they still believe “the election was rigged and stolen from Trump.” Just 18 percent say they believe “Joe Biden won fair and square.”
This mass deception also serves as a cover for Trump loyalists to pass new state laws to suppress voter turnout and give Trump sycophants control of counting votes.
And now he is threatening to discourage his followers from voting in upcoming elections.
The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page responded by warning: “Mr. Trump may not be finished making his supporters pay for his narcissism.”
Trump’s “narcissism” requires his followers to ignore that his own attorney general concluded there was no fraud. So did more than 50 federal judges. So did Republican secretaries of state and even a series of election audits.
And there is more.
Revelations in freshly released documents show that Trump pressured his vice president to overthrow the election results. He also pushed loyalists in the Justice Department to do the same.
And he pressured Republican governors, and state legislators, even Republican secretaries of state, to find votes for him and falsely crown him the winner.
Republicans in Congress close their eyes to those facts.
Instead, they are captives — locked into an endless loop of lies run on high-speed repeat between Trump, conservative talk shows, elected officials and Republican voters.
That drumbeat of lies drowns out any counterpoint. It creates a separate reality.
Here is the proof:
A Quinnipiac University poll released last week found 66 percent of self-described Republican voters said they did not consider the January 6 Capitol insurrection to be “an attack on the government.”
That same poll found that 77 percent of Republican voters said they do not hold Trump responsible for it.
Say, what?
It is a matter of history that Trump asked the mob to come to Washington to protest Congress certifying the election. He spoke to the crowd before they attacked Congress.
Cheney is one of two Republicans willing to defy the mob-think on the right by serving on the Jan. 6 House Committee:
“All of us as elected officials must do our duty to prevent the dismantling of the rule of law,” Cheney said last week, “and to ensure that nothing like that dark day in January ever happens again.”
Trump doesn’t want an election. He wants to claim he is a victim of another stolen election.
Talk show host Bill Maher recently warned that Trump is engaged in “a slow-moving coup.” He predicts that Trump, if he runs in 2024, will claim victory no matter the final vote tally — and this time the state and local officials who stopped him will be gone.
There is only one way to stop Trump’s coup attempt. A federal law protecting voting rights.
Unless full voting-rights protections are passed by Democrats now with their slim majority in Congress, historians will look back on 2021 as the year the American democracy died.
Trump is killing it — with help from Congressional Republicans. Democrats can’t be complacent Democrats as another year goes by.
Juan Williams is an author, and a political analyst for Fox News Channel
The 2016 defeat of Hillary taught the Democrats two things. The rigged polls convinced the lemmings in the press and public that the Democrat candidate was a sure bet to win.... AND despite the amount of cheating they did in 2016 it wasn’t enough to defeat the public’s choice, a candidate who was not a Washington insider ! They vowed after 2016 election that would not happen again, and they repeated the rigged polling supported by the PR team of the Democrat party known as the main-stream press, and further perfected the art of the steal. Though the steal was so obvious anyone with two connected dendrites could figure it out, the press and our feckless courts chose to ignore the obvious and demonized anyone who challenged their false narrative that installed a person with organic brain syndrome into 1600 Pennsylvania.
My takeaway is that Juan’s IQ is about 82.
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That high?
“You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,” said Hillary Clinton.
In 2004, Terry McAuliffe told a crowd of Democrats, “We actually won the last presidential election, folks. They STOLE the last presidential election.”
Stick a sock in it, Juan.
Juan is a professional negro who is anti-American at the root of his soul. You can’t be both American and professional negro
The Democrats responded to her refusal to recognize the results of that election by calling her a hero, and making her a centerpiece of their 2020 convention.
I have a absolutely zero doubt they would have responded to a Trump 2020 victory the exact same way, declaring him illegitimate and cheering on the protestors that would have amassed in D.C.
They broke our republic first, so screw them.
Let's go, Juan!!
Excellent examples of their hypocrisy!
As usual Juan Williams doessn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.
If anything the Rat Party and their Leadership are killing a Democratic Republic Not President Donald Trump.Not only are they killing it.They’re doing it on purpose.Just look at their actions to this date and you’ll know that its true.
“Elections have consequences”
Did Trump really say that Republicans won’t vote in the 2022 midterms or the 2024 presidential election if fraud is not uncovered?
I read that somewhere and it made me shudder.
Faggot liberals. They've been able to implement their undisputed agenda for sixty years and anytime they get any resistance, act like little b*****s.
That' not why he was hired, he was an affirmative action hire, he's an idiot.
It's "The Big Lie" bingo with everyone's favorite retarded Lefty shill.
Gads, is his face punchable, or what?
He took a Mitt, and filled the toilet with Obama.
Juan has to be the dumbest new media member there is in the USA.
Juan Williams is an idiot. Why post his nuttery here?
Yet another reason to never watch Faux News.
Faux News is CNN-lite.
They needed their anonymous gunthug to murder someone for The Narrative.
That much is clear.
Has anyone done a recent IQ test on Williams ???
Al Gore has been claiming that the 2000 presidential election was stolen from him for 21 years. Hillary Clinton has not shut up about the 2016 election being stolen from her. Stacey Abrams has still not conceded the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election. Yet, the media and democrats (same thing, I know) continue to claim that Trump’s belief that the 2020 election was stolen is the “big lie” and an existential threat to our very democracy and he and his followers must be punished. Are any of my fellow Americans dumb enough to not see the hypocrisy of the left?
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