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In america want to overturn the counting of votes? they have to get elected by those people. the notion that some state legislature would be crazy enough to say to their own voters, we re not going to honor the results of the election is ridiculous on its face, end quote. i don t know, mitch. but that s exactly what a bunch of state legislators tried to do. these 147 members of your party in the house of representatives and the senate supported those efforts by voting against certifying the legitimate victory of joe biden. a recent poll finds 71% of republicans still don t believe biden was legitimately elected president because of the big lie. despite this, there s bipartisan support for reforming the stupid 1887 electoral count act to ....
The united states domestically and abroad would be profound. a nationwide crisis of political legitimacy could provoke domestic terrorism. the resulting instability would make the insurrection of 2020 and social unrest of 1968 look tame. the federal government would become structurally dysfunctional. that is a thing you re warning against. you re in the business of warning people about risk. you aren t actually a political activist. you tell companies and countries, this is the risk you re looking at when you re in america. this is inconceivable to me that you re writing that about america. i know. it is shocking to me as well. but you have to look back. in 2016, it wasn t that bad. but you could see the germs of this develop, right? you saw that hillary clinton, you know, she conceded. she called trump. but a large number of democrats believed that the election was ....
i started the firm in 1998. the united states domestic politics was never part of it. the u.s. was doing a lot of leading by example. didn t make everyone around the world happy and we made our share of mistakes but there wasn t really any question about the legitimacy of american political institutions. now, i mean, you and i know ali and that kind of fundamental to a functioning democracy is the ability to have free and fair, legitimate elections that whoever wins, whoever loses, you go on and you continue to govern. and all around the world major democracies continue to function like that. but not the united states. and so and i see so many people out there saying can we keep our denokeracy, can we save our democracy? i think it s more can we rebuild some of the democracy that we ve already lost because, as of today, the national election cycle in the u.s. has fundamentally eroded. we can no longer count on having a free, fair and legitimate ....