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riversedge

(69,537 posts)
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 10:15 PM Dec 2020

Why GOP's instant dismissal of Barr's election fraud denial is so concerning



Why GOP's instant dismissal of Barr's election fraud denial is so concerning
After four years of Trump, ignoring reality is no longer a reflex; it's at the center of the right’s political culture.



https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/why-gop-s-instant-dismissal-barr-s-election-fraud-denial-n1249746?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma




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Trump’s consistent lies are forcing the GOP into an existential crisis.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Library of Congress


Dec. 2, 2020, 2:42 PM CST By Charlie Sykes






On Tuesday, President Donald Trump’s loyal attorney general, Bill Barr, said he has “not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

If this is going to be yet another test of the GOP’s integrity, it’s probably best to keep your optimism in check.

This would have been disastrous for Trump if facts actually mattered. Fortunately for the president, the grievance movement he is building rests more on raw belief than any actual evidence that would hold up in a court of law.

Cults, after all, are built and sustained on faith, not data.

On cue, much of Trump’s supporters denounced the attorney general. Lou Dobbs of the Fox Business Network lashed out at Barr, saying he is “either a liar or a fool,” while other Trump-friendly media outlets labelled the one-time loyalist “just another card-carrying swamp rat.”

None of this is especially surprising, since actual evidence of fraud is beside the point for much of Trump’s base. They simply cannot believe that it is possible that he lost. “Does anyone believe that Biden got 15 million more votes than Obama in 2012?” Eric Trump tweeted. “This from a candidate who would go days/weeks while hardly campaigning.”

In the pro-Trump publication “American Greatness,” the theft of the election is treated as a matter of uncontestable fact. “The question is not whether the Democrats tried to steal the election; they did,” writes author Bruce Bawer. “At this point, there’s no honest question about that. The only question is whether there’s enough time to prove it in court, and whether the judges involved will dare to make honest rulings.”

DOJ has not found widespread election fraud, attorney general Barr says
Dec. 2, 202002:46

The conservative website RedState published a piece that stated “without a doubt, this election was stolen,” based on “circumstantial evidence.”

“The enthusiasm for the Trump team seemed insurmountable,”’ the author insists. “There is no way Biden and Harris jumped over that by holding rallies for 10 people at a time. I’ll die on that hill.”

This would have been disastrous for Trump if facts actually mattered.

For Republicans, the long nightmare of Trump is not even close to being over. Despite his defeat, it seems increasingly likely that Trump will continue to hold the GOP hostage, insisting that they continue to support his claim that the election was stolen from him.

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Why GOP's instant dismissal of Barr's election fraud denial is so concerning (Original Post) riversedge Dec 2020 OP
I'll die on that hill Ferrets are Cool Dec 2020 #1
Which is why all of the criminal actions of this administration must be revealed and justice served usajumpedtheshark Dec 2020 #2
Should have been done after Nixon wnylib Dec 2020 #3
Yeah... rRrrrright... "There is no way Biden and Harris jumped over that"... xcept: Lock him up. Dec 2020 #4

usajumpedtheshark

(672 posts)
2. Which is why all of the criminal actions of this administration must be revealed and justice served
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 02:24 AM
Dec 2020

Biden is nice guy but I didn't vote for him to deny me justice. His oath of office requires action. otherwise our constitution and laws are meaningless

Lock him up.

(6,861 posts)
4. Yeah... rRrrrright... "There is no way Biden and Harris jumped over that"... xcept:
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 05:46 PM
Dec 2020
Almost All The Polls Showed Biden and Harris LEADING over Drumpf for MONTHS!

These nuts are blind or they're trying to lie to catapult their propaganda from their alternate universe?
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