Reply to The GOP is broken beyond repair

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "The GOP is broken beyond repair"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some insight from scholars from the cited WP article:

"Scholars said the predominance of election deniers in the GOP bears alarming similarities to authoritarian movements in other countries, which often begin with efforts to delegitimize elections. Many of those promoting the stolen-election narrative, they said, know that it is false and are using it to gain power.

“Election denialism is a form of corruption,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, the author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present” and a historian at New York University. “The party has now institutionalized this form of lying, this form of rejection of results. So it’s institutionalized illegal activity. These politicians are essentially conspiring to make party dogma the idea that it’s possible to reject certified results.”

In the short term, scholars said, that party dogma is likely to produce multiple election challenges this fall from deniers who lose. It could poison the 2024 presidential race, as well."

Chilling...[/quote]

Yes, very much so. Yet I am kind of infuriated as the similar signs were present when GOP legislatures in MI NC PA + WI moved to curtail the authority and powers of newly elected Dem governors in those states. These kinds of authoritarian moves are made by Erdogan and Orban but nary a peep from national press, possibly a one-day story in one or two outlets but that's it. The US national press is so poorly equipped to cover this moment.[/quote]
+1 Examples here 
[twitter]https://twitter.com/mcopelov/status/1525199510733037571?s=61&t=a1buCFQVaBJpgWv6Vr5D1A[/twitter][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics