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Death of Democracy in America - The Republican ENDGAME
8 Feb 2023 8:01 am
THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT:
Election officials say democracy is still at risk in 2024 - NBC News
excerpts:
"The November midterms gave election officials and pro-democracy advocates their first sigh of relief in years: The election system they’d spent years defending and shoring up operated almost seamlessly, and most of the election deniers who threatened to disrupt it were defeated.
The respite, however, appears to have been brief, with the new year marked by violent, moneyed and high-profile election denialism.
Election experts, pro-democracy advocates and secretaries of state who defeated election deniers said in interviews that while democracy defenders have won a key battle, the existential threat to American democracy remains.
"In some ways, it was just a dress rehearsal for the 2024 presidential election," Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said.
MEANWHILE I've said it before and I'll say it again, THESE mfkrs are just SICK. There's no two ways about it:
It's Scary: Jordan Klepper Reveals What's So Worrisome About Trump Supporters - HuffPost Entertainment
excerpt:
"Klepper attended a Trump event in South Carolina over the weekend where he found supporters who don’t believe Biden is really in charge; that he has a fake presidential seal; that there are two militaries, one of which is controlled by Trump; and that the war in Ukraine doesn’t exist and the refugees fleeing the violence are actors.
“There are folks out there that will deny reality to its face,” he told Steele on Thursday. Steele asked later in the segment if he found the views among Trump supporters have evolved at all.
“No, there’s there’s no evolution of ideas,” he said. “There’s devolution of ideas, and that’s where the scariness arises.”
Election officials say democracy is still at risk in 2024 - NBC News
excerpts:
"The November midterms gave election officials and pro-democracy advocates their first sigh of relief in years: The election system they’d spent years defending and shoring up operated almost seamlessly, and most of the election deniers who threatened to disrupt it were defeated.
The respite, however, appears to have been brief, with the new year marked by violent, moneyed and high-profile election denialism.
Election experts, pro-democracy advocates and secretaries of state who defeated election deniers said in interviews that while democracy defenders have won a key battle, the existential threat to American democracy remains.
"In some ways, it was just a dress rehearsal for the 2024 presidential election," Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said.
MEANWHILE I've said it before and I'll say it again, THESE mfkrs are just SICK. There's no two ways about it:
It's Scary: Jordan Klepper Reveals What's So Worrisome About Trump Supporters - HuffPost Entertainment
excerpt:
"Klepper attended a Trump event in South Carolina over the weekend where he found supporters who don’t believe Biden is really in charge; that he has a fake presidential seal; that there are two militaries, one of which is controlled by Trump; and that the war in Ukraine doesn’t exist and the refugees fleeing the violence are actors.
“There are folks out there that will deny reality to its face,” he told Steele on Thursday. Steele asked later in the segment if he found the views among Trump supporters have evolved at all.
“No, there’s there’s no evolution of ideas,” he said. “There’s devolution of ideas, and that’s where the scariness arises.”