This from the NYT Morning Newsletter is alarming:
"Republicans who falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent now make up more than half of the party’s major elected officials in some states. In the House of Representatives, almost two-thirds of current Republican members objected to the 2020 result in at least one state. So did eight senators and attorneys general in 17 states."
The article continues to break down Republicans into three categories: The deniers, the enablers and the accepters. The first group are the above Repugs. The second group includes the likes of McCONhell and DeathSentence. While they avoid the Big Lie directly they nonetheless support those who do because they recognize that the Party has been so infected by it that they need those voters. The third group are those like Cheney who flat out call it what it is and rightly think it's tantamount to the downfall of democracy.
Unfortunately the first two groups collectively are by far a majority of the Party, which spells democracy's doom. The article pessimistically concluded that it's likely the first group would overturn a legitimate election and the second group would likely enable it. We best get off our asses and fight this before it's too late.
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