January 12, 2021 at 5:16 PM
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No single event triggered the assault on the Capitol last week, but one of the more significant signposts was the wide dissemination of the cockamamie theory that the vice president of the United States wields the hidden constitutional power to just ignore electoral college votes. It’s a measure of authority that, if it existed, one assumes John Adams would’ve liked to have known about. Alas, it does not exist.
So how did something this stupid get into the right-wing ether? Donald Trump promoted it of course. But how did Donald Trump become convinced of this nonsense…