We're trapped in a doom loop of Trumpian circular logic

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
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Republicans keep saying their voters "lack confidence" in the election. But they're rarely asked: Aren't you and Trump the *reason* they lack confidence? Politico's @EugeneDaniels2 did ask Sen @CynthiaMLummis this question. The answer was comically absurd:

Opinion | We’re trapped in a doom loop of Trumpian circular logic
The GOP claim that their voters "lack confidence" in the election is a self-reinforcing phenomenon.
washingtonpost.com
1:37 PM · Apr 29, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/29/were-trapped-doom-loop-trumpian-circular-logic/

Donald Trump has found a new way to pretend the election was stolen from him. According to a remarkable report in The Post, he’s increasingly focused on a hand recount now underway of 2.1 million ballots in Arizona’s most populous county, to the point where he’s grown “fixated.”

And Republican officials will continue feeding this lunacy, not necessarily by flatly agreeing that the election was stolen, but rather by murmuring that maybe Republican voters have a point in “lacking confidence” in the election’s outcome and, by extension, in our political system.

Which means it’s time more Republicans are asked directly: If GOP voters lack confidence in the election and in our electoral system, isn’t that because Trump and Republicans told them that they should lack confidence in them?

Take the situation in Arizona. Amazingly, the GOP-controlled state Senate has turned ballots and voting equipment over to a private contractor whose chief executive has promoted nonsense about fraud in the election.

How are Republicans justifying this? You guessed it: By claiming GOP voters lack confidence in the outcome and need their confidence restored. As Karen Fann, the top Republican in the Arizona Senate, put it:

“When you’ve got half of the people who do not trust the electoral system anymore, rightly or wrongly, and they have questions, who is responsible for answering these questions?” Fann said Tuesday on KTAR News in Arizona. “This has been the sole thing, to get answers, so that if we have any problems, we can fix them.”

Isn’t that nice? Arizona Republicans just want to identify problems in the system and fix them. How saintly of them. Can’t you just see their halos glinting in the sun?

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[LanternWaste]

1. I still wonder of some evil genius consciously created this self-fulfilling prophecy.

An idea that came to him during his borscht and vodka lunch. If it was an intentional idea, it seems to have worked very effectively and efficiently on our lowest common denominators.

If it was simply the perfect storm of stupidity and hispter skepticism for its own sake, it really was the perfect storm.

[Grokenstein]

2. The ultimate weaponization of "I'm jus' askin' questions!"