It’s having cover that counts
As predicted by one of their own, Republicans have rejected democracy. But you knew that. Democracy requires vote-couting. Or it once did. A new batch of John Eastman emails reveals the lengths to which Republicans were prepare to manipulate vote totals to get their desired results in 2020 (Politico):
Attorney John Eastman urged Republican legislators in Pennsylvania to retabulate the state’s popular vote — and throw out tens of thousands of absentee ballots — in order to show Donald Trump with a lead, according to newly unearthed emails sent in December 2020, as Trump pressured GOP lawmakers to subvert his defeat.
This recalculation, he posited in an exchange with one GOP state lawmaker, “would help provide some cover” for Republicans to replace Joe Biden’s electors from the state with a slate of pro-Trump electors, part of a last-ditch bid to overturn the election results.
U.S. District Court Judge David Carter described Eastman’s efforts as “a coup in search of a legal theory.” Not just in Pennsylvania, but in other states.
I’m reminded of a memory I have from a “Wide World of Sports” pool contest featuring an arrogant Minnesota Fats. The Party of Trump approaches elections the same way:
“Practice is for suckers.” “Modesty is for suckers.” “Keeping score is for suckers.” Feeling pressure? “Pressure’s for suckers.”
Democracy too now.
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