Russia can stand down. The GOP is interfering with election results all on its own

[dajoki]

Russia can stand down. The GOP is interfering with election results all on its own.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/russia-can-stand-down-the-gop-is-interfering-with-election-results-all-on-its-own/2020/11/02/c175c6d8-1d42-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html

Russia, Iran and other foreign adversaries tempted to interfere in U.S. elections can take it easy Tuesday. They needn’t waste precious resources tampering with vote tallies or degrading the perceived legitimacy of our election results.

Because Republican officials have done this work all on their own.

Americans like to think of our country as a place with a shared set of democratic values. We’re a nation in which whoever receives the most votes, according to some predetermined set of rules, wins. But recent developments reveal the sharedness of these values to be a fantasy. In the months leading up to the presidential election, the Republican Party has been singularly focused on preventing eligible voters from reaching the polls and on blocking lawfully cast ballots from being counted.

One party, and one party alone, has abandoned the old-fashioned electoral strategy of appealing to a majority. Instead, it has fully, openly embraced voter suppression.

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Because let’s be honest. America can’t continue calling itself a democracy if it throws out tens or hundreds of thousands of ballots cast in good faith, for transparently anti-democratic reasons, simply because a political party asked for it. We can’t continue to pretend our judicial branch is made up of neutral, qualified individuals calling balls and strikes — at least not when the courts have been packed with appointees vetted for their inclination to cement a partisan agenda that Republican politicians openly expect voters to reject.

The legitimacy of our government, and respect for the rule of law, depends on voters’ belief that it has been put in place as a result of free and fair elections. That’s the social contract. And Republicans have set it aflame.

[abqtommy]

1. I'm cynical enough to believe that sPUTIN is offering the reTHUGS advice and support and

the reTHUGS are accepting it. They've all gotta go!