Marc Elias-Republicans Insist Either They Win, or They Were Cheated

[LetMyPeopleVote]

One of the key points that President Biden made in his Thursday speech is that TFG and MAGA republicans do not believe in democracy. TFG will only accept election results if he wins. That is so un-American that is sad.

Link to tweet

https://www.democracydocket.com/news/republicans-insist-either-they-win-or-they-were-cheated/

Standing before Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Biden captured the immediacy of the threat facing our country this November: “Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election: either they win, or they were cheated.” Yet, that is exactly what Republicans say they believe. And it is what we have seen Republicans insist in nearly every close election in the last two years......

This is not the first time that Biden has sounded the alarm over Republican election subversion. More than a year ago, he delivered a similar speech about democracy, again in Philadelphia. He warned then that our country was “going to face another test in 2022: a new wave of unprecedented voter suppression, and raw and sustained election subversion.” He described the continued attack on free and fair elections as “the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.”

Then, in January 2022, Biden spoke in Atlanta, Georgia and again clearly warned that “the goal of the former president and his allies is to disenfranchise anyone who votes against them. Simple as that. The facts won’t matter; your vote won’t matter. They’ll just decide what they want and then do it. That’s the kind of power you see in totalitarian states, not in democracies.”.....

As Biden put it on Thursday evening, “for a long time, we’ve told ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed, but it’s not. We have to defend it, protect it, stand up for it, each and every one of us.” One way we have protected it has been to celebrate it....

Since the Jan. 6 insurrection, Republicans have launched a massive election subversion effort aimed at undermining the accurate counting of ballots and certification of election results. The risk of domestic election subversion by the GOP is now a greater risk to free and fair elections than foreign interference.

In his address, Biden offered the following warning to Republicans: “History has never been kind to those who have sided with voter suppression over voters’ rights. And it will be even less kind for those who side with election subversion.” Let us hope he is correct.

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[EnergizedLib]

1. I love it

How their side is in such a massive uproar when the president went into Dark Brandon mode and took the gloves off, then they go and prove him right.

[odins folly]

2. Delusional

This belief stems from the multiple generations of conservatives being told they are the majority. From the BS of Nixon and his silent majority through Falwell’s support for Reagan with his moral majority and into GWB with the Christian coalition. They have become a very loud minority, and because of the amplification of “news” equal voice practices, they really do believe they are a majority, so when they don’t win, it has to have been rigged. The sad facts are that conservatism is a death spiral, nothing natural is conservative; everything grows, spreads, evolves and is inherently liberal..

I could be wrong.

[jcgoldie]

3. the elephant in the room irony

Its one thing to be shocked when your ideology is not more popular and feel there may be shenanigans afoot when you lose an election... its a far more outrageous thing to take that attitude when you spend the previous four years alienating every demographic who doesn't look and think like you. They push everyone out of the tent and then act gobsmacked when they get less votes.