A dangerous trend among GOP candidates shows the Trump threat is here to stay

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
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This is ominous. I've compiled numerous examples of high-profile GOP candidates who are vowing to contest future losses as illegitimate. In GOP politics, this is becoming a badge of honor, and that's a serious threat to democratic stability. My latest:

Opinion | A dangerous trend among GOP candidates shows the Trump threat is here to stay
The vow to subvert future election losses is becoming a badge of honor.
washingtonpost.com
8:06 AM · Sep 10, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/10/dangerous-trend-among-gop-candidates-shows-trump-threat-is-here-stay/


So is this really how it’s going to be? Are more and more Republican candidates across our great land going to treat it as a requirement that they cast any and all election losses as dubious or illegitimate by definition?

We’re now seeing numerous examples of GOP candidates running for office who are doing something very close to this. Which suggests the legacy of Donald Trump could prove worse for the health of democracy than we thought.

It isn’t just that Republicans will be expected to pledge fealty to the lost cause of the stolen 2020 election. It’s also that untold numbers of GOP candidates will see it as essential to the practice of Trumpist politics that they vow to actively subvert legitimate election losses by any means necessary.

One high-profile GOP candidate now playing this ugly Trumpist game is Larry Elder, who is running in a recall election against California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom. This week, Elder told reporters that “there might very well be shenanigans” in the vote counting, just like “in the 2020 election,” and vowed that his “voter integrity board” of lawyers will “file lawsuits.”

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. This is why there are certification processes & why GQP is corrupting election officicials

The GQP is trying to install ultra-partisan officials to not certify Democrats regardless of them winning.

It is corruption.

[duhneece]

2. New Mexico has an asshole candidate who should be listed

Yvette Herrell is a right-wing, ALEC ‘star’….a monster

[liberalmuse]

3. It's a death cult at this point.

And dangerously so.

[notinkansas]

4. This "voter integrity board" of lawyers

is aware that they could very well lose their law licenses, right?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/06/24/with-giulianis-law-license-suspended-heres-the-other-trump-lawyers-who-may-face-discipline-next/?sh=133bb59d13b3

[Javaman]

5. the systemic problem of crooked spineless sycophantic repukes. nt