Fascism: Majority of Republicans say belief in Trump election hoax important part of Republicanism

[Zorro]

The hoax-promoting Sen. Josh Hawley will go down in history as a traitor to his country. He won't be alone.

A new CNN poll shows the nation remains politically divided, and by "politically divided" that primarily means Republicans continue to lurch farther and farther into hoax-promoting, anti-democratic extremism.

Two specific poll questions are worth calling out. The first is that about six in ten self-identified Republicans claim to believe that "supporting Donald Trump" is either a "very" or "somewhat" important part of "what being a Republican means to you." This is a bit weird, because Donald Trump is ... not in office. He has no current position. He is retired, bumbling around at Mar-a-Lago regaling wedding guests with stories of how the world has wronged him, interspersing rounds of Florida golf with promotional appearances at cult meet-ups and pay-per-view boxing matches. Donald Trump does not currently need any "support," but the question has a nearly identical response breakdown to a much more interesting poll question that this question probably acts as one-to-one proxy for.

That question? Whether "believing that Donald Trump won the 2020 election" is a "very" or "somewhat" important part of Republicanism. Those responses are near-identical, with 6 in 10 Republicans agreeing that it is.

The notion that Donald Trump "won" the 2020 election is a hoax. It's specifically a fascist-promoted hoax intended to discredit democratic elections themselves, because a good chunk of the party (six in ten, apparently) would rather burn democracy itself down than tolerate a world in which a self-promotional tax-dodging rapist incompetent gets booted after only one term in office. There is not even a scratch of evidence to support that Trump "won" an election in which he was quite soundly defeated. Not a single shred of evidence was found to back the Trump camp's propagandistic claims of "voter fraud." There is no state electoral count that could even be plausibly contested. There's nothing. The notion that Trump "won" is entirely the fabrication of a set of Trump allies who crafted it either to coddle the bruised ego of a delusional decompensating narcissist, as means for overthrowing the United States government, or both.

It is fascist propaganda. It is the equivalent of proclaiming that vaccinations turn you magnetic or that a political opponent is in fact a lizard person. It's not just false, but a toxic attempt to do harm for the sake of doing harm.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/12/2051849/-Fascism-Majority-of-Republicans-say-belief-in-Trump-election-hoax-important-part-of-Republicanism

[C_U_L8R]

1. No one ever said they were the smart party.

Or the honest one.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. That's a dead end. Trump will be litigating all of his financial crimes, but his war crimes

was trying to Out-Trump the virus. He lost, 600,000 Americans died.

[aeromanKC]

3. Cult

[raging moderate]

4. Abe Lincoln would have some interesting commentary on this delusion.

He was the exact opposite of Donald Trump, in so many ways. The devolution of the Republican Party is one of the sad stories of the modern world.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. GOP approves violence like NAZIs.

They hobnob with the gangsters who plotted to kidnap, “try,” and assassinate the Governor of Michigan.

[Mr. Evil]

6. Their reasoning for believing this is simple.

They cheated. But, since TFG lost bigly they assume the Democrats cheated. In other words, outsmarted them. They can't stand that. Of course the Democrats didn't cheat. They just can't fathom the idea that practically all Democrats, most independents and even some republicans found TFG to be so repulsive and loathesome that they risked Covid-19 and conquered their usual apathy to vote for Joe Biden. They absolutely cannot handle that. It's really that simple.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Do they also say that getting impeached TWICE was a hoax too?