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This article originally appeared at FAIR.org. Used by permission.
Major media outlets have largely come around a day late and a dollar short to calling out Donald Trump s extremism and lies, particularly the Big Lie that the election was stolen (FAIR.org, 1/7/21). But this rejection of Trumpism and the Big Lie goes hand in hand with the elevation of a reasonable or admirable wing of the GOP, whose own extremism and undermining of democracy are thereby whitewashed.
Exhibit A is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who jumped on the Trump bandwagon early and was only kicked off it when he rebuffed Trump s infamous demand to find 11,780 votes in order to overturn the state s election result. ....

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