XPost: alt.survival, rec.arts.tv, alt.politics
XPost: alt.checkmate, alt.atheism, alt.rush-limbaugh
XPost: alt.baldspot, talk.politics.guns, alt.abortion
XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.journalism.criticism XPost: alt.news-media

Lee wrote

Republicans Are Already Claiming the
Virginia Election Has Been Rigged
Nov 2

This is how it’s going to be
forever: Republicans and
conservatives will claim that
any election they lose is
fraudulent. Donald Trump
established this as the playbook
for his party-cum-cult. And the
full embrace of this authoritarian
and dangerous tactic has been
evident in the much-watched and
tight-as-a-tick governor’s race in
Virginia between Republican Glenn
Youngkin and Democrat Terry
McAuliffe.

Days before the final balloting on
November 2, right-wingers and
Republicans began hurling the
accusation: The Democrats are
stealing this election. They had
no evidence. They were just beating
this tribal drum. But the aim was
to create an echo chamber for the
delegitimization of the election
should McAuliffe, the former
governor, prevail.

The strategy is simple: repeat the
phony charge over and over to block
full public acceptance of an
unfavorable result. And this attack
has come from multiple directions.
Steve Bannon, the once-indicted-and-
Trump-pardoned strategist has inserted
himself into the race, and appearing
on a Virginia-based talk show on
October 29 to discuss the election,
warned, “They’re Democrats. They’re
going to try to steal it. They can’t
win elections they don’t steal, right?
They understand this. This is what
they did in ’20. It’s time now to
start calling them out.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/republicans-are-already-cla iming-the-virginia-election-has-been-rigged/

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)