The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
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Time Magazine ^
| FEBRUARY 4, 2021 5:40 AM EST | MOLLY BALL
A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing. The
nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence. Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that...
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The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election (flashback 2021)
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time ^
| 2/4/2021 | molly ball
A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing. The
nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence. Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that...
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The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election (Feb 2021)
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Time ^
| February 4th 2021 | Molly Ball
A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing. The
nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence. Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that...
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The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
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Time ^
That's why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of
information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.“
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