This is a Pandora's Box you can't close again. No presidential candidate in modern American history has directly disputed election results with a multi-state margin of victory, let alone to this extent. Trump litigated at every possible angle, and accused the Supreme Court he partially installed of being "too scared" to overturn the election. Every CPAC panel this year about election integrity has implied that the Democrats cheated to get Biden to win. And then Trump makes the entire third act of his speech about it. The crowd chanted "You Won" during that part too.
How can you have a functioning democracy if one of the two political parties is constantly and directly accusing the other of cheating to win the election? Why bother to negotiate with people you are calling cheaters? And regardless of if they're arguing in bad faith, a sizeable part--possibly a majority--of their voter base genuinely believes it.
The Republicans are feeding into a mix of psychotic egotism and blind hatred for the sake of sacred votes and staying in power. Trump listing "RINOS" got more booing than mentioning any Democrat. The US will be lucky if the Republicans eat each other over this. If they get into power while having this egotistical psychopath as kingmaker and wannabe king, democracy in the USA will come to an end.
EDIT: Added two qualifiers to second sentence. The 2000 election was the kind of close election that was at least worth disputing on both sides, not the kind of win that Trump called a "landslide" when it happened to him in 2016. The SC got involved with the former, and not the latter, for a reason: legitimacy. Also I'm willing to hope elections have become more secure than they were in the 19th century.
And while there were objections to Trump's election, not a single Democrat senator objected to the 2016 election, but six Republican senators objected to 2020, after a violent insurrection attempted to overrule the election results.
ikhurana on February 28th, 2021 at 23:57 UTC »
The Senate acquittal only emboldened him.
TheBlueBlaze on February 28th, 2021 at 23:40 UTC »
This is a Pandora's Box you can't close again. No presidential candidate in modern American history has directly disputed election results with a multi-state margin of victory, let alone to this extent. Trump litigated at every possible angle, and accused the Supreme Court he partially installed of being "too scared" to overturn the election. Every CPAC panel this year about election integrity has implied that the Democrats cheated to get Biden to win. And then Trump makes the entire third act of his speech about it. The crowd chanted "You Won" during that part too.
How can you have a functioning democracy if one of the two political parties is constantly and directly accusing the other of cheating to win the election? Why bother to negotiate with people you are calling cheaters? And regardless of if they're arguing in bad faith, a sizeable part--possibly a majority--of their voter base genuinely believes it.
The Republicans are feeding into a mix of psychotic egotism and blind hatred for the sake of sacred votes and staying in power. Trump listing "RINOS" got more booing than mentioning any Democrat. The US will be lucky if the Republicans eat each other over this. If they get into power while having this egotistical psychopath as kingmaker and wannabe king, democracy in the USA will come to an end.
EDIT: Added two qualifiers to second sentence. The 2000 election was the kind of close election that was at least worth disputing on both sides, not the kind of win that Trump called a "landslide" when it happened to him in 2016. The SC got involved with the former, and not the latter, for a reason: legitimacy. Also I'm willing to hope elections have become more secure than they were in the 19th century.
And while there were objections to Trump's election, not a single Democrat senator objected to the 2016 election, but six Republican senators objected to 2020, after a violent insurrection attempted to overrule the election results.
wraithtek on February 28th, 2021 at 23:15 UTC »
Known liar Donald Trump lies some more. Braindead followers lap it up.