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Nothing in our history prepares Americans for what’s likely to arrive this November
The Hill ^ | 09/20/2022 | AUSTIN SARAT

Posted on 09/20/2022 7:32:56 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

While much attention has been paid to Donald Trump’s continuing fixation on denying the results of the 2020 presidential election and the possibility of a repeat in 2024, a more immediate threat to democracy is looming: an alarming number of Republicans across the country are now gearing up to cast doubt on the outcome of the midterm elections this November.

The New York Times reports that “six Republican nominees for governor and the Senate in key midterm states … would not commit to accepting the November outcome.” Five others refused to answer the question. The Washington Post found a similar thing in its own survey of candidates running for governor and Senate in battleground states.

Allegations of chicanery in state and local elections are almost as old as the Republic, as are false claims about election integrity.

But candidates announcing in advance that they will not accept election results is unprecedented.

It is an alarming reminder of the growing authoritarianism in many parts of the Republican Party and the threat it poses to American democracy

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wouldn’t conducting elections in a fair and transparent, above-the-board manner put an end to these “unfounded” claims of stolen elections?


21 posted on 09/20/2022 7:44:07 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats LIE AND CHEAT, its what they do.


22 posted on 09/20/2022 7:45:29 AM PDT by Pearfect
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“TRANSLATION: “The Demonocrats have ...”

My translation: the incoming ballots and counting need to be watched very closely.


23 posted on 09/20/2022 7:45:47 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Pearfect

Plus they are Demonically Possessed.


24 posted on 09/20/2022 7:46:19 AM PDT by sport
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How is demanding honest elections a ‘threat to democracy’?


25 posted on 09/20/2022 7:47:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Since the Election Theft of 2020 has not been addressed in any serious manner at all, what on earth would make anybody think that it can’t and won’t happen again? Seriously.


26 posted on 09/20/2022 7:47:44 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t fall for the propaganda. It’s nothing but bait.


27 posted on 09/20/2022 7:48:54 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Can you smell the fear? They are panicking.


28 posted on 09/20/2022 7:48:54 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This piece is pure propaganda.


29 posted on 09/20/2022 7:49:17 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: BobL

“Can’t even find an American to write that story?”

A commentator said, “Try this. Say the names of any three previous presidents and then say Barak Obama. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Franklin Roosevelt...Barak Obama.
That’s the problem right there.”


30 posted on 09/20/2022 7:49:30 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Nothing in our history prepares Americans for what’s likely to arrive this November

No King but Jesus?

Thanks for the intel, Austin.

If the dark side knew what it were doing, it wouldn't do that.

Well, what can you do, but just sit back and watch.

31 posted on 09/20/2022 7:52:07 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man.)
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To: BobL
Amazing what you discover when you google these authors - his articles are loaded with anti-Trump headers and statements. So he's part of the media Engine opposing Trump......

AUSTIN SARAT - This is what a Anti-Trumper media author looks like...


32 posted on 09/20/2022 7:52:57 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So basically some Republicans are taking Hillary Clintons advice to Biden and not to concede no matter what?

*shrug*

And about that Gore V Bush election... do leftists STILL insist Bush was selected not elected? that seems to have gone down the media memory hole!


33 posted on 09/20/2022 7:53:10 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This guy is a Cliche of Cliches.

Gets a series of degress so that he can teach others to get a series of degrees . . .

Been in elite Higher Ed since the mid 1960’s.
Never had a paying job outside of that, but also grifted a bit more Tax Dollars through Fed gigs.

He offers nothing in this discussion other than standard Leftist Talking Points like Orange Man Bad, and MAGA Republicans Bad, but couched in clever phrasing.

Represents all that is wrong with Higher Ed and American Education.


34 posted on 09/20/2022 7:54:11 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The quick solution to that is:

NEVER! let the RATs touch the ballots.


35 posted on 09/20/2022 7:54:34 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ChicagoConservative27
the growing authoritarianism in many parts of the Republican Party

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

36 posted on 09/20/2022 7:55:17 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Panic Porn from a Partisan Media Shill and Stooge alert.
The garbage owner of the garbage The Hill will host the Walker-Warnock debate.

37 posted on 09/20/2022 7:56:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: BenLurkin
How is demanding honest elections a ‘threat to democracy’?

It is when "democracy" means "the RAT gravy train".

38 posted on 09/20/2022 7:58:44 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ChicagoConservative27
They know they “saved” the 2020 election and they know we know it too. The president was cruising easily to a second term by 9pm PST and then someone, some shadowy cabal decided to take the rest of the night off counting votes. This is when millions of fraudulent votes were cast in 5 swing states.

America woke up the next morning and some demented pedophile who campaigned from his basement and couldn’t draw 100 people to any event was installed as president. His Veep candidate had an event in Phoenix and NO ONE showed up but the local news teams.

I think Trump has the goods on a lot of Deep State criminals and a second term for him just wasn’t going to happen no matter what. Explains now why there’s still 24/7 TDS from the State Media now, almost 2 years later.

39 posted on 09/20/2022 7:59:24 AM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

COWPIE!


40 posted on 09/20/2022 8:01:29 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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