Recent contributors to The Columbian argue that it’s Democrats who are the true threats to democracy. I wonder if we’re operating from the same facts.
Are they aware that in April, the Washington state Republican convention called for the party to stop even using the word “democracy” because, as one delegate said, “We do not want to be a democracy”? Do they know that the Republican Party has purged voters, that the GOP has gerrymandered “with surgical precision” or that 23 Republican states have passed restrictions on the right to vote, sometimes explicitly bragging that these would guarantee their party’s victory?
The Bulwark, a conservative publication, and Rolling Stone are reporting that 70 election deniers serving on election boards around the country might refuse to certify elections, even in areas that Trump wins, so as to prevent statewide certifications of the vote. They would do this believing the issue would come before the Supreme Court, whose Republican members are bending over backward to do Trump’s bidding in delaying his criminal trials. Is anyone certain this court won’t simply rule that those Democratic states with election-denying boards can’t certify their elections, thus throwing the election, by fiat, to Donald Trump?
