From: slider@anashram.com

(CNN)Donald Trump has set the price of admission for Republicans in the
midterm elections, and probably the next presidential race: an embrace of
the big lie that he was cheated out of office by a historic voter fraud operation.

The former President's effort to turn 2022 polls into a personal revenge mission and to replenish his personality cult got a big boost Monday when
a comrade-in-arms, Rep. Mo Brooks, launched an Alabama US Senate run.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/23/politics/trump-mo-brooks-election-lie/index.html

Brooks is the latest Republican to seek to leverage his efforts to thwart
a democratic election as a springboard for higher office. He led a push in
the House to block the certification of President Joe Biden's victory
after telling Trump supporters at the "Stop the Steal" rally that turned
into the Capitol insurrection on January 6: "Today is the day American
patriots start taking down names and kicking ass."

Even Brooks admitted Monday that his campaign launch rally in Huntsville, Alabama, would not be quite so hyper. But he built the foundation for his
run on proven falsehoods just the same.

"In 2020, America suffered the worst voter fraud and election theft in history," Brooks said, claiming no other candidate for the US Senate had
stood as strongly as he had alongside Trump.

Channeling his hero, he slammed "weak-kneed RINOs," the "fake news media"
and "radical socialists."

Multiple courts, including the US Supreme Court, rejected the
ex-President's claims of election cheating. Even Trump's own Justice
Department said that there was no widespread electoral fraud last year. In
a new court filing, lawyer Sidney Powell, who is facing a defamation suit
from electoral infrastructure firm Dominion Voting Systems, said
reasonable people would not accept her claims of voter fraud made on
behalf of the ex-President as fact.

Brooks, who figures to have a strong chance of winning the GOP nomination
and the Alabama seat, given Trump's fervent support there, launched his
effort alongside Stephen Miller, the hardline former White House official
who authored many of the ex-President's tough immigration policies.
"Nobody over the last four years has had President's Trump's back more
than Mo Brooks," Miller told the crowd. "But now, I need you to have his
back."

Brooks, who is running for the seat long held by retiring Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, a classic old-school conservative, was not the only member
of Trump's army targeting the Senate on Monday.

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, who also fanned false claims about
election fraud, and who had resigned amid allegations of sexual and
campaign misconduct, announced a bid for the seat of retiring Sen. Roy
Blunt.

Greitens opened his campaign on Fox News and said he was running to
"defend President Trump's America First policies."

The new recruits for Trump's efforts to demonstrate his continuing hold on
the GOP showed their stripes as the ex-President made a parallel bid to dismantle the democratic safeguards that confirmed his loss in Georgia
last November.

Trump on Monday endorsed GOP Rep. Jody Hice for Georgia secretary of state
-- after attacking the incumbent, Brad Raffensperger, who had stood firm against Trump's pressure on local officials to rig vote counts.

Hice has falsely claimed that there were multiple examples of fraud in
Georgia, the key state that handed Democrats control of a 50-50 Senate in runoff elections in January.

Other outspoken pro-Trump Republican candidates are considering or have launched Senate campaigns in states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania where
more GOP incumbents are retiring. Proteges of the ex-President are lining
up challenges against some of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach him
for inciting an unprecedented and deadly insurrection designed to destroy
basic US democratic principles.

The former President signaled to potential GOP candidates the price of his endorsement when he reemerged at the Conservative Political Action
Conference this month, where he warned that Republicans needed to back an
end to mail-in voting and called out GOP lawmakers who had voted to
impeach him by name.

The former President's shadow in 2022 will ensure that yet another
election will be dominated by his pernicious claims that voting in America
is corrupt -- with all the consequent damage to US democracy that brings.

Trump's unending campaign of lies coincides with an effort across multiple states by local Republicans to suppress votes and reverse voting methods
that resulted in a record turnout and his clear defeat in November.

The rededication of the party to Trump's populist nationalist creed -- characterized by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's visit to
Mar-a-Lago earlier this year -- helps explain the drive to make it more difficult for Democrats and minority voters to get to the polls.

The GOP could have rejected Trumpism and tried to broaden its appeal to
win over more voters. But it doubled down on the "Make America Great
Again" themes that lost the House, the Senate and a reelection race in
Trump's single term -- so may need to attempt to muffle the voice of the majority of the nation that rejected the ex-President.


### - quote: "Trump's unending campaign of lies coincides with an effort
across multiple states by local Republicans to suppress votes and reverse voting methods that resulted in a record turnout and his clear defeat in November."

LOL i can't personally think of anything MORE corrupt in a democracy than suppressing people's ability TO vote?? lol wtf???

there's just no possible justification for it except criminal ones!

and because anyone who seeks to win an election by 'suppressing' the vote
of the opposition just isn't being honest nor even playing by the rules OF democracy?

that if such tactics were applied to say a football match by making it impossible for the other side to even take part, it wouldn't even BE a
game of football anymore! it would just be a completely one-sided rigged
game! a one-horse race! (a very boring & predictable game!)

which when applied to politics would in fact mean it's not actually a democracy!?

hmm... now what's it called when there's only ONE party you're allowed to
vote for i wonder?

oh that's right, it's called total BS & LIES! lol ! :))))

that if this has been the case all along (as it surely has been) then
malcomb-x actually nailed it completely when he said:

"We don't live in a democracy, we live in a hypocrisy!"

(which makes it very easy to understand just exactly why they had to get
rid of him in a hurry then innit lol)

perforce the way to obviate the problem altogether would be to make it
illegal NOT to vote?

society would then literally be 'obliged' to ensure everyone was ABLE to
vote!

the majority then winning every time without fail!

problem solved ;)

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