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Americans â at least some of them â are falling for two big lies.
The one lie we know about â the dangerous canard that somehow last yearâs presidential election was fraudulent.
All the Republicans who have enabled some piece of this lie, such as by voting to set aside the actual election results or staging next weekâs ridiculous âelection integrity rallyâ in Lynchburg, have set the country on a path toward a dark and terrible place that will make the events of Jan. 6 look like childâs play.
They will bear the opprobrium of history if we ever get there. Fortunately thereâs still time to turn away from that lie, by calling out and isolating the self-serving Donald Trump and his conspiracy-theory acolytes, something far too Republicans have had the courage to do.
Jeff Schapiro
As Elizabeth McClanahan tells it, at the Abingdon law firm where she practiced, there was a banged-up metal desk used by a predecessor, Andy Miller. The firm, the former Virginia Supreme Court justice said, would assign the desk to young associates, who were told it had been that of a storied politician.
From that small firm, Miller went to Richmond, where he would build one of Virginiaâs biggest law shops. It wasnât a high-dollar firm. Rather, it was the Office of the Attorney General, which until Millerâs election in 1969, had only a dozen lawyers. Understaffed, it hired private lawyers to advise state agencies even on mundane matters.
In 1977, Andrew Miller almost became governor of Virginia.
The fact that he did not was described as âthe upset of the centuryâ and accelerated the realignment of Virginia politics that led to its current political order.
If thatâs all you know about Andrew Miller â âAndyâ Miller to his friends and supporters â then thatâs a poor understanding of Virginia history, which we will set about to rectify today. Alas, the occasion for this history lesson is a sad one. Miller passed away July 2 at the age of 88.
While Miller never achieved his goal of becoming governor, he remains an important figure in Virginia politics, one whose legacy still is felt today. He was twice elected attorney general and the 71% of the vote he received when he was reelected in 1973 remains the most of any candidate for the stateâs three top offices in the modern era. Miller is regarded as the father of the modern attorney generalâs office â creating the m
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