the strategic objective of nearly every move by the trump team after the networks called the election for biden on november 7th was to induce republican legislatures in states biden won to seize control of the results and of appoint trump electors instead. every other objective in courtrooms, on state election panels, in the justice department, in the office of the vice president, every other objective was instrumental to that end in the state legislatures. although trump won broad rhetorical support from state legislators for his fictitious u claims of voter fraud, legislators were reluctant to take the radical, concrete step of nullifying the votes of their own citizens despite enormous pressure none of the six contested states put forward an alternate slate of electors for trump. only later as congress prepared to count the electoral votes din legislators in some of those states begin talking unofficially about decertifying the biden electors.
and unbelievable, but is actually a real plan? i think it is very real. i personally am just as a citizen very worried about it. i think you have people who are bound and determined not to allow republicans to lose another national election and not to allow trump to lose another election. and they are giving themselves permission to do it. this is something i don t go into in this piece, but you ve seen it. they are characterizing the democrats as tyrants, as thieves of an election, who actually stole the presidency as communists, as people who hate america, and they couldn t discuss it with any more extremity than they re doing,
this weekend in washington a ridiculous white supremacist boys club called patriot front dressed up in matching outfits to make themselves look like menacing middle managers of an electronics store. they got their white nationalist flags and their little shields and their khakis and their shin guards and they marched from the lincoln memorial down the national mall in what was supposed to be a white supremacist show of force in the nation s capital. according to reporting today in the daily beast this is the neo-nazi group that used to call it vanguard america but changed their name to patriot front after one of their members drove his car into counterprotesters at charlottesville, virginia, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen. cdr that was at the unite the right rally where then president trump said there were very fine people on both sides. in ttoil both sides being the neo-nazis and the protesters against them. this weekend in dallas the trump supporting, cultish con
and when you do that, you give yourself permission to take all kinds of steps in opposition. i mean, if you have an existential threat to the united states of america, which is what republicans are saying about biden, then what remedy would not be allowed to you? is that why you believe, bart, that the feeling among trump supporters, especially the hard-edge trump supporters, is hardening both the mill tansey around the election issue, which has gotten steadily worse over the course of the year, but also the openness to violence as a potential solution here, that s gotten worse over the course of this year too. is it simply a result of the type of rhetoric you are describing or is there some other dynamic at work? i think there is a strong, ongoing message that is
the numbers they re saying at the end of those phrases is because they re doing like bogus kindergarten-level made-up numerology, which they believe unlocks the secret code that their leader communicates with trump, uses to communicate with donald trump, and the secret code is about how trump will be restored and how he secretly is orchestrating the return of thet kennedys from beyond the dead. also all the dead celebrities. they are very joyous about this because the numbers tell you this is all about to happen. there they were at the dallas christmas parade this weekend with the big jfk heads with maga hats on. they ve been in dallas for weeks now because they keep expecting, like, the opposite of the zombie apocalypse when the dead celebrities come back and it s a good thing and trump gets restored? that s how it s going right now on the political right in america. that s how half our two-party system is holding up. before the 2020 election,