As the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was playing out on TV news shows, computer screens, smartphones and social media, LNP | LancasterOnline began scrambling to find locals
were part of a republican sweep of the elizabethtown, pennsylvania area school board because that is the republican party strategy, right? school boards are no longer the sleepy hope of budget meetings and how many snow days. they are the fiery front line of fights over book banning and the teaching of america s true racial past and what is science anyway? masks in a pandemic? who needs them? the gop is using school boards to rile up their base. that isn t everything. steven lindemuth even got elected to the normally noncontroversial, nonpartisan position of judge of elections in mount joy township, pennsylvania. a local office that administers polling on election day. sounds obscure and trivial. but every little bit helps when you are trying to steal an election. pennsylvania has a critical senate race on the 2022 calendar. could steven and danielle lindemuth be part of the republican party s plan to win in pennsylvania by any means necessary? anyone on the right it seems has a role t
small when it comes to overturning democracy. look, we know this much for certain. mr. lindemuth s victory in november in this conservative rural community is a milestone of sorts in american politics. the arrival of the first class of political activists who galvanized by donald j. trump s false claim of a stolen election in 2020 have begun seeking offices supervising election systems they believe robbed mr. trump of a second term according to a may reuters poll, more than 60% of republicans now believe the 2020 election was stolen. a percentage as ridiculous as it is scary. it s becoming clearer with each passing day that many members of trump world will stop at nothing to win. we also learned this week that trump s attorney and former traffic court lawyer jenna ellis wrote two memos in the week before january 6th arguing that pence could prevent biden from taking office. to call her legal arguments far fetched would do a discredit to the term legal argument. in effect she made the c