Back in 2016, Trump claimed that there were millions of illegal and/or fraudulent votes for Clinton. He formed a high profile commission of voter fraud experts to validate his claim.
Remember when Kris Kobach was charged with Donald Trump with the task of coming up with a shred of evidence for Trump’s wild lies about how “millions” of fraudulent votes were cast against him in 2016, and he came up with nothing? Not with “a totally half-assed set of poorly supported partisan conclusions that would convince nobody who needed convincing.” But literally nothing.
Main stream Republicans approved of the commission because voter fraud is the boogie man of Republican politics. They have been using it as a way to suppress potentially Democratic voters for decades. But, Trump's current attack on the voting process is much more than putting on the boogie man costume for Halloween. And, as his fellow Republicans add their support to the Trump's lies, the whole structure of our democratic government is weakened.
The irony here is that the Republican party has now morphed into a parody of the most brain-damaged paranoid leftist America-hater you could possibly imagine: The kind of person who makes unhinged claims about how American elections are all simply “rigged” ahead of time by “the big corporations,” “the media,” etc etc.
This is horseshoe theory with a vengeance, but what nobody wants to admit is that the two ends of the horseshoe consist of a street person who should be institutionalized, and the chair of the Republican National Committee (who is Mitt Romney’s niece and George Romney’s granddaughter no less. Republican royalty!), and who is merely parroting what the Leader has decreed shall be the Party Line.
The current Republicans make the fictional Senator John Yerkes Iselin look sane.
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