Trump supporters — particularly those with large platforms and, often, something to sell — spent months hyping up the sham “audit” of Maricopa County, Arizona’s election results as the first domino to fall: First Arizona, then Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and so on would acknowledge that Trump, in fact, had been robbed of a second term in office. Perhaps, they mused, the audit would even result in a “decertification” of the election.
All the fucking roaches, or maybe dung beetles, are streaming out from behind the wainscoting:
Peter Navarro, a former White House advisor who for months has claimed there was widespread election fraud in 2020, jumped on those figures to try to sell yet another book, “In Trump Time.”
The first step is to call the legitimacy of existing electoral institutions into question followed by step two which is to gain legitimacy for alternatives. Step three will be substitution of those alternatives and legalizing their capacity to reverse election results.
It’s all right there in the totalitarian playbook.
True but hadn’t those mostly been trumpeted before this hit the airwaves?
Anyway, I certainly hope someone keeps pounding on how much that all cost AZ and what they could have done with that money instead. Won’t move any MAGAts, but might move some independents.
But shed a tear for Cyber Ninjas, who must have sincerely thought they’d be heroes, but now have lost the grift. Pennsylvania and Michigan will never hire them!
From the article
"That left the most fervent election truthers in a difficult position: What to say?
Some trashed the process as impossibly biased from the start."
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Yeah, I;d hafta agree that it certainly was biased, but not the way the truthers thought it was.
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