Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: agitprop; americans; austinsarat; history; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; november; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; prepares; ronklain; thehill; theshill
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-64 next last
To: ChicagoConservative27

The Hill. Elevation unknown.

41 posted on 09/20/2022 8:09:08 AM PDT by EinNYC
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh screw them.

What’s really happening is that they are attempting to cancel and criminalize various criticisms of their rule.


42 posted on 09/20/2022 8:10:17 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

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

Of course this statement is absolutely false. You will recall Hillary instructed Biden not to concede under any circumstances and that they would make sure he eventually wins the election no matter what.


43 posted on 09/20/2022 8:12:14 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
"TRANSLATION: “The Demonocrats have a right to steal elections, and Conservatives have a right to shut up about it."

The Beltway establishment calls that "Quality Control" in democracy.

44 posted on 09/20/2022 8:17:55 AM PDT by blackdog ("That's an applause line you useful idiots" )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Why do these people so blatantly remind me of elementary school recess bullies? This is a preemptive “Heads I win, Tails you lose” attack!

Biased much? Or should it be; “Prejudice much”?


45 posted on 09/20/2022 8:22:29 AM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

To these people history only started the day they were born.


46 posted on 09/20/2022 8:23:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m wiping away the tears now, thinking we would be forced
return to our U. S. Constitution as a guiding document for
our nation.

Nothing in our history...

No you AHs, you are presenting nothing in our history for
us to choke down.

Hopefully that’s over in January, when the new people take
office and start dismantling your little kingdom of doom.


47 posted on 09/20/2022 8:28:45 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh noes Republicans are out of control


48 posted on 09/20/2022 8:30:07 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

Yes.


49 posted on 09/20/2022 8:32:58 AM PDT by nwrep
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: nwrep

Thank goodness. She was almost an election denier.


50 posted on 09/20/2022 8:36:18 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: rktman

She almost did until Obama forced her to accept it.


51 posted on 09/20/2022 8:43:43 AM PDT by nwrep
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Any Republican candidate who loses in November will claim is was because of voter fraud. Any Democrat candidate who loses in November will claim it was due to voter suppression. Neither side will accept the other side results as legitimate. Such is the way of elections in the U.S. in 2022.


52 posted on 09/20/2022 8:46:55 AM PDT by Lower Deck
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

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

Only an election where your party wins will be seen as an honest election. Anything else will be considered fraudulent an a treat to democracy.

53 posted on 09/20/2022 8:49:33 AM PDT by Lower Deck
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

fraudulent elections are a threat to the Republic

dismissing questions about the integrity of an election as misinformation is a threat to the Republic


54 posted on 09/20/2022 8:56:17 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Hot air hyperbole. This country has seen difficult and divided times more than once.


55 posted on 09/20/2022 9:00:05 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (My aim in life is to be a "headquarters-looking type.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN

The Hill is circling the toilet. I remember right before John Solomon was chased out they would label his factual reports as “opinion” while not doing the same for obvious Democrat propaganda.


56 posted on 09/20/2022 9:13:49 AM PDT by lodi90
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: lodi90

I quit reading asnything at The Hill when they pushed out the only actual Journalist. John Solomon is too good for them, then and now.


57 posted on 09/20/2022 9:23:04 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

they are just expanding on their “Trump is hitler” meme

Trump is hitler so they were justified in cheating

MAGA is authoritarian so they are justified in cheating again


58 posted on 09/20/2022 9:24:26 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN

Same here. I haven’t read a Hill article since he left.


59 posted on 09/20/2022 9:45:11 AM PDT by lodi90
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

There you go.


60 posted on 09/20/2022 10:06:04 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-64 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson