Trump's Big Lie Devoured the G.O.P. and Now Eyes Our Democracy

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Opinion | Trump’s Big Lie Devoured the G.O.P. and Now Eyes Our Democracy
Respect for election integrity is now a disqualifier for membership in the Republican Party.
nytimes.com
6:47 PM · May 4, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/opinion/gop-trump-2020-election.html

President Biden’s early success in getting Americans vaccinated, pushing out stimulus checks and generally calming the surface of American life has been a blessing for the country. But it’s also lulled many into thinking that Donald Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen, which propelled the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, would surely fade away and everything would return to normal. It hasn’t.

We are not OK. America’s democracy is still in real danger. In fact, we are closer to a political civil war — more than at any other time in our modern history. Today’s seeming political calm is actually resting on a false bottom that we’re at risk of crashing through at any moment.

Because, instead of Trump’s Big Lie fading away, just the opposite is happening — first slowly and now quickly.

Under Trump’s command and control from Mar-a-Largo, and with the complicity of most of his party’s leaders, that Big Lie — that the greatest election in our history, when more Republicans and Democrats voted than ever before, in the midst of a pandemic, must have been rigged because Trump lost — has metastasized. It’s being embraced by a solid majority of elected Republicans and ordinary party members — local, state and national.

“Denying the legitimacy of our last election is becoming a prerequisite for being elected as a Republican in 2022,” observed Gautam Mukunda, host of Nasdaq’s “World Reimagined” podcast and author of the book “Indispensable: When Leaders Really Mattered.”

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[hydrolastic]

1. This has bugged me for a while now. At work the guys

still believe the election was rigged. Nothing will convince them otherwise. Its been months now, The other day i said there was the insurrection at the capital and they got all bent and insisted there wasn't an insurrection and what about all the damage done in Minneapolis? I was like what are you talking about? They are getting the information from somewhere but idk where that is. But since we are seeing two different sources of information we both think we are right. The fact that Trump is still running his party and dealing in misinformation and the Republicans are still supporting him is as amazing as it is troubling. What is going to happen now? Some kind of national reeducation?

[Skittles]

4. BML didn't try to OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT

and BML has LEGITIMATE BEEFS

there just is NO COMPARISON

[moondust]

2. History will not be kind

to this Republican Party. They obviously can't fathom or don't care how their farcical Cult of Trump will be remembered.

[Skittles]

3. it's why the FBI's dedication to prosecuting the yahoos is very important

their silly insurrection attempt must be dealt with HARSHLY

[DallasNE]

5. So True

Just look at what is happening to Liz Cheney. Trump has the Republican officeholders in a box canyon and has locked the gate. And if the recent election in Texas in a competitive district is any indication of things to come then America is in deep trouble. Elections are not a one and done deal. People must vote in large numbers as Texas demonstrates. Trump has kept his band riled up to the extreme and that is carrying the day. The election of 2020 only slowed things down a bit. There needs to be follow up. Biden's solid poll numbers had no coattails in Texas. We are indeed at a false bottom.