OPINION: What makes Trump and his closest supports so dangerous is their refusal to accept an election they’ve lost no matter the facts nor the outcome of multiple appeals.
The front page of last week’s Washington Post screamed out a warning about the future of American democracy.The analysis that followed claimed 291 Republicans — a majority of those running in November for a House, Senate or key statewide seat — are “election deniers.’’ The story quoted experts cautioning that Republicans have “institutionalized’’ the practice of rejecting election results they don’t like, posing a grave threat to the country’s democratic principles.
“I find it really hard to believe that this guy , who didn’t campaign, who was clearly not at his best — and his best wasn’t great — and is now in serious cognitive decline ... had the attraction to get people to go out in vote in enough numbers to beat Trump,’’ Dennis said. The former are a genuine threat to a republic that rejects mob rule and the arbitrary enforcement of law. The latter are in the same camp as Democrats who complain that Trump could never have been elected in 2016 without the help of Vladimir Putin or perhaps James Comey.
Nevertheless, Trump refused to concede, did not assist in the transition, refused to attend his successor’s inauguration and continues to praise as “patriots’’ the mob that stormed the Capitol.
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