Ah Bill. He made some interesting points...
I'll take everyone's word for it - I'm not going to give that ugly bigot a second of viewing time.
Certainly before Repubs reaction to the results in 2020, there were no examples of Dems disagreeing with election results prior.
Certainly before the January 6th, 2021 putsch attempt...the only other American attempts to violently overthrow representative government came from people who would be Republicans today:
the white supremacists of Wilmington, NC.
To believe that one would have to ignore just about every Hillary (and close Dem colleagues) interviews since 2016 which she states straight up that the election was stolen.
Cite? Secretary Clinton's inner circle (which includes good personal friends, FWIW) will fume about Comey's 11th hour firebomb, and REALLY damn that worthless pervert mofo Tony Limpdick for shooting our whole country in the balls. They will also, reasonably, note the role of the massive Russian disinformation attack campaign, and Putin's American quislings who helped it along. But do they falsely claim voter fraud? No. Did Secretary Clinton urge her supporters to storm Congress while they were certifying the vote? No. (And perhaps if even if in an alternate universe she had done so, more to the point, her supporters would've abandoned her.)
Stacey Abrams? She's made a career of it.
That's an asinine false equivalency worthy of the GRU. There is a relevant and material distinction between falsely asserting the existence of material fraud (the Big Lie) and the noting the adverse impact of a self-serving manufactured tilt in the electorate. In Stacey's first run for governor, the eventual victor, Brian Kemp, was Secretary of State. In that position he and his people were in charge of certifying voter eligibility. His office used that power was to disenfranchise Georgia voters, especially voters with less Wonderbread names. For example, if someone had a spelling of her name with a dash on one form and one with a space in some record, that voter was thrown off the list. This was a not longstanding standing policy of his office, but an 11th hour change in procedure. Legal, but oh so dodgy. The result was close enough that it is more likely than not these efforts to warp the electorate swung the election to Kemp. And yet - nobody put on horns and stormed the Golden Dome as a result, either. Nobody pissed in Speaker Ralston's office or erected gallows with the stated intent of lynching an elected official.
Disclosure - we lived in Atlanta at the time and were strong supporters of the Abrams campaign. Our eldest daughter was in an Abrams campaign commercial. Also, to learn more about this remarkable human being, it's well worth watching her Oxford Union address in full.
That said, we also have good friends who are Kemp appointees and serious, capable public servants in their appointed positions.
Now, we do know Gov. Kemp's moral red line. While he has shown himself wiling to use all available legal means to damage democracy to his benefit, unlike many Republicans he was principled enough to draw the line at conspiring to commit fraud.
Likewise, go back to 2000. The Supreme Court stopped the count for electoral purposes, but subsequent work by NGOs showed
Vice President Al Gore won Florida when it was finally counted. Does it need to be said the Vice President did not spend the next three years whining in public. He also did not incite a putsch attempt, or even make moves to throw out Florida's electoral slate. He accepted the decision of the Court, wrongly decided though it was, and moved the eff on.
They should be educated so they can decide who to vote for themselves.
Speaking of education, it's worth noting which party has pulled stunts such as banning
math textbooks for some alleged support of "Critical Race Theory," whatever the hell they mean by that. (When these neo-Soviet apparatchik thugs rant about CRT, they never seem to actually know what it is.) I think the real reason was the competing publisher is a Party supporter. We really should rename the modern GOP to CPSU-West..
