Posted on 06/12/2021 5:01:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the smoky backrooms I envision the Democrats still operate in – Schumer with a cigar and his interns with CBD oil vapes – something has surely occurred to Chuck, Nancy and team: without the massive and historical change in voting laws in 2020, would Joe Biden have beaten Donald Trump?
If the spectrum swings back to center, even a little, and the rules return to anywhere near their historic norms, do they have any chance next time? After all the panic and fear and misinformation stirred up by Democrats and the Partisan Press, the cumulative result of all the election laws being passed by Republican state legislatures is that the rules around the 2024 presidential election will probably look a lot like the 2016, 2012, and 2008 elections. Of course, in two of those we elected an African American president, which makes it hard to understand this all as a vestige of Jim Crow regime racism.
Beyond the Democrats' own unwittingly racist and paternalistic presumptions that African American voters need special help getting to the polls or acquiring government IDs, surely there’s some fear under the surface. Not that 74 million people turned out to vote for the Republican candidate, their fear about that has been right on the surface. But that a vast majority of them did so on what we used to call Election Day.
What if Democrats realized they can’t win elections without six weeks of bussing people to the polls? What if Americans see through the conceit that requiring an ID to vote or limiting absentee ballots – like the vast majority of the European countries Democrats idolize do – is not some evil obstruction of democracy, but a way to safeguard it in a divided country where elections are won by extremely slim margins?
That may be why Democrats are recklessly convincing half the country that elections conducted by anything other than either A) the COVID emergency rules of 2020 or B) the federalism-ending rules of HR1 are heretofore the only legitimate paths forward. Why else would they throw such dangerous red meat to their base, convincing them in the Stacey Abrams model that a great and evil fraud is afoot?
And who in the media will call Democrats out for their irresponsibility? For their fostering of delusion and misinformation? Who will tell them that the impediment to their goals is not the largely-unchanged-in-100-years Senate filibuster, but instead the razor-thin majority an unconvinced public tepidly awarded them? No one, because they are wrapped up in a majoritarian fantasy that does not match how America is meant to be governed. Because they fear the existing constraints of our federal union and are building the intellectual and political justifications for rejecting them.
That’s why they must teach folks to resent so much about our country, so they can justify changing the rules. It’s a national scale version of the process of dehumanization the Left uses to stir anti-rich, anti-capitalist sentiment in justifying naked wealth redistribution.
Who will tell them that fostering election hysteria tends to end poorly, as if we didn’t just get a pretty up-front lesson about that almost exactly six months ago? Who will call out their charlatans, embraced by polite society because they work at The New York Times and on the Hill instead of selling pillows?
I wrote over a year ago about what the Democrats were planning to do as we stumbled towards a contested election. Then I wrote about it again. And again. And I called out the role Stacey Abrams pioneered in 2018 and would be lionized for in 2020. I didn’t do so for partisan advantage. Instead, so we could reflect on the fact that the greatest country in the history of the world now has a divide so great and so basic it can’t even agree on how to conduct an election. The legitimacy-granting mechanism is itself losing legitimacy.
Think about that: the very contest we use to bridge our societal divides, filtered into the realm of what we call politics, is itself the source of dispute. Does everyone understand how core and deep our governance crisis is? Why an America without a federalist devolution of powers is not an America that can survive united?
When the President of the United States declares that opposing a federal takeover of our elections is an assault on democracy; that the traditional election rules that kept him for decades in the Senate and awarded him twice the vice presidency are evil relics of a blinkered past, what will happen? We get to find out in about 17 months.
If necessary, Biden or Harris could get 400 million votes next time. Who would stop them? Turnout doesn’t matter.
What amazes me is that some of these states illegally changed the voting laws. They did not use the state legislature to do it as required by constitution, even required by there own states constitution. Or at least that’s the way I understand it. Then they allow mail in ballots that require no ID. That’s ripe for just printing off illegal ballots and turning them in. Now the dems are racing to make this form of voting legal. They used the virus as a reason to get away with it and people understand that’s why it was used.
There was massive voter fraud in 2020. If they did a canvas they will find a high percentage of mail ins that came from empty lots. They know it. I wish the Arizona audit was happening in GA or Pennsylvania. I would feel more comfortable of them finding the fraud. You also have a dem ran media and social media hiding it by not reporting it and not being allowed to discuss it on social media. If Arizona shows massive fraud there will be a crap storm. If it’s not massive this may die off.
Democrats can’t win without the foreigner vote.
The author completely ignores the fact that laws weren’t changed by the legislatures, but by illegal judicial and executive actions. The premise of the article is wrong.
Biden did NOT win the presidency.
If Democrats can’t cheat, they can’t win.
It was a stolen election in 2020, from the top of the ticket on down.
When just 16% of the counties across America can elect a president something is very very wrong.
Sure getting sick of seeing Stacey Abrams’ pitches on YouTube!!!
That idiot biden did not win the election. He could hardly get anyone attend his rallies, while President Trump huge rallies. In one he had over 50,000.
Business as usual garbage. They can win any race they want.
The threat to democracy posed by election fraud is the handiwork of corrupt politicians, mostly democrat but also republican, as demonstrated in GA and AZ. But the biggest threat to our democracy is Chief Justice John Roberts, the most corrupt chief justice in US history. Roberts tolerated and allowed obvious Article 2 violations in 2020 to go unchallenged, refusing to hear any cases with evidence of violations. He is the most powerful officer in the land and has demonstrated his corruption openly many times.
Our democracy is in grave danger with Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States.
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