thought tally exploiting them. they have set loose and are driven by the animus of tens of millions of aggrieved trump supporters prone to security thinking who embrace violence and reject democratic defeat. those supporters are armed and single minded and will know what to do the next time trump calls upon them to act. democracy will be on trial in 2024. the midterms marked by gerrymandering will more than likely tighten the republican party s grip on the legislatures in swing states. the supreme court may be ready to give those legislatures near absolute control over presidential electors. if republicans take back the house and senate as oddsmakers seem to believe they will the republican party will be firmly in charge of counting the electoral votes. against biden or another democratic nominee, donald trump may be capable of winning a fair election in 2024, but he does not intend to take that chance meaning he does not intend to take the chance of the election
election results in 2020, those republicans, everyone from brad raffensperger and ryan camped in georgia, to lesser known officials in michigan and across the country. those republicans who wouldn t go along with it for the 2020 election, they have been removed from office, they ve been censured, they ve been facing trump backed primaries if they want to stay in office. he shows the polling data. which indicates that the republican base voters, haven t cooled off or backed off from the literary revolutionary implication of which trump tried to do to overturn the election. over the past year instead, republican voters have become more militant on the subject and more likely to embrace violence as a potential solution. he says quote, donald trump came closer to than anyone thought he could to toppling a free election a year ago. he is preparing in plain view to do it again. and his position is growing strong. republican acolytes have identified the weak points in
seize partisan control of decisions about which ballots to count and which to discard. which results to certify and which to reject. they re driving out or stripping power from election officials who refuse to go along with the plot last november aiming to replace them with ex-ponents of the big lie. they are fine tuning a legal argument that purports to allow state legislators to override the choice of the voters. by way of foundation for all the rest, trump and his party have convinced a dauntingly large number of americans that the essential workings of democracy are corrupt. that made up claims of fraud are true. that only cheating can thwart their victory at the polls. that tyranny has usurped their government. that violence is a legitimate response. any republican might benefit from these mac nations but let s not pretend there is any suspense unless biology interseeds trump will seek and win the republican nomination for president in 2024. the party is in his thrall. no opponent
republicans, everybody from, you know, brad raffensberger and brian kemp in georgia to lesser known officials in michigan and across the country, those republicans who wouldn t go along with it for the 2020 election have been removed from office, they ve been censured. they re facing trump backed primaries if they want to stay in office. he shows the polling data which indicates that the republican base voters haven t cooled off or backed off from the literally revolutionary implications of what trump tried to do to overturn the election. over the past year instead republican voters have become more militant on the subject and more likely to embrace violence as a potential solution. he says, quote, donald trump came closer than anyone thought he could to toppling a free election a year ago. he is preparing in plain view to do it again, and his position is growing stronger. republican accolytes have identified the weak points in our electoral apparatus and are
them, that the democrats are destroying the country, that more and more and more so-called evidence proves these things, and, yeah. i think the there is this very large mass of trump supporters who believe both that biden is an illegitimate president who stole the office and that violence is justified. frankly, if you were living in a country in which the election was literally stolen, and an imposter was holding office, why wouldn t violence be justified? i mean, they are making an argument that leads only to one place. the cover story in the atlantic right now is called january 6 was practice, donald trump is better