Niall Ferguson is a jackass. He is on Fareed Zakaria saying it is an exaggeration criticizing the

[still_one]

republicans for believing that the Democrats “stole” the election, saying the Democrats did the same thing in 2016. No they didn’t.

This false equivalency is bullshit.

No surprise Ferguson is a fellow at the Hoover Institute

Ferguson is a relic from Those “good ole” days of racist colonialism

[applegrove]

1. He is a historian who thinks he is an economist. Movement conservative

cultist.

[still_one]

3. Cultist is right. He fits right in with today's Republican Party. I suspect he would have been

right on board with Edward the VIII embracing hitler

[CrispyQ]

2. I never thought they stole 2016.

I thought a bunch of dumb shits fell for a ton of Russian misinformation & that James Comey put his finger on the scale with his announcement 11 days before the election. Now 2000? Stolen by SCOTUS. And 2004? I'll always wonder about that one.

[Progressive Jones]

4. I automatically assume GOP cheating in elections. All the way down to Dog Catcher races. nt

[mr_lebowski]

5. It wasn't all misinformation, some of it was stolen by Russia ... then IQ45's best buddy

going back decades (Stone) was coordinating it's release by Wikileaks with messaging from the candidate.

Trump cheated his ass off ... but as you point out, that's quite different than the argument Tangeranus is making now.

Wingnuts don't seem to grasp the simplest of concepts about conspiracy theories ... the more people that are necessarily involved, the less likely it is to have occurred.

[Dem4Life1102]

6. Ferguson is a well known right wing hack

and has been one for years.

[BeyondGeography]

7. Shameless prevaricator

Can’t stand him.