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Prepare yourself to deal with lots of uncertainty in the coming weeks.
I've been a thinkin the same thing. One thing we have going for us is the more militant part got to see that Trump didn't pardon the Oath Keeper or Proud Boy leaders/followers on advice of counsel. So they may think they will get strung out just like the others.
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Ready to reject the votehttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/podcasts/the-da...There's an interesting episode of the NYT "The Daily" podcast in which a reporter talks to the Chair of the Maricopa County, AZ, Republican Party.
The guy is obviously intelligent; an engineer who had his own aerospace related company. But when it comes to the reality of the 2020 election he is a total whackadoodle.
The reporter keeps knocking down his election conspiracy theories with facts, but he falls back on...he just knows in his gut that Trump won. And he has only the most absurd nonsense to support his 'gut'.
Then the reporter talks with other staffers in the GOP Phoenix office and they all express the same belief that the election was stolen.
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As expected, AND AS HAD BEEN CAREFULLY EXPLAINED AND PREDICTED, the majority of votes cast on election day were counted first in most states, and Trump took the lead on election night. It was at that point, before midnight, that Trump Declared victory
And that is one of the reasons those AZ GOP precent workers just feel SURE that Trump really won. No amount of factual explaining will convince them otherwise.
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The reporter keeps knocking down his election conspiracy theories with facts, but he falls back on...he just knows in his gut that Trump won. And he has only the most absurd nonsense to support his 'gut'.
Again, it's the damage caused by Trump and his allies breaking the trust in the system.
Voters know that the system is fair because the candidates and the campaigns get to watch everything that happens. The way you keep Democrats from cheating is by letting the GOP see every part of the ballot-counting process; the same is true of Republicans. The system relies on the campaigns watching everything, observing for themselves that no cheating took place in the counting, and then accepting that no cheating took place.
If the campaign goes out and tells everyone that the other side cheated during the counting, though, then that eradicates that entire framework. The framework is set up so that each campaign's partisans get to watch the counting, and then they report back to the party and candidate that they saw the counting done fairly - and then the party and candidates communicate to their supporters that the counting was done fairly.
If the candidate falsely claims that the counting was done unfairly, that framework is destroyed. If Trump falsely claims he won, even though he didn't, his supporters are going to believe him. They're going to trust him rather than his political opponents. Since the system relies on the candidates being honest in communicating that the count was conducted fairly, there's no way to repair the damage if they're dishonest.
