With Donald Trump facing felony charges over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat.
Which confuses me to this day, because doesn’t it make Republicans less likely to vote since they think their vote doesn’t matter?
Take Sarah Palin as an example. The half term Governor makes more money now than she ever made as a public employee. They know they can’t win the poker game, so they’ll make money by kicking over the table.
Look up a novel called ‘Space,’ by James Michener. There’s a character who goes from getting rich conning people with UFO conspiracies to being a Christian nationalist without breaking a sweat.
Yeah, but they’re showing that argument doesn’t work in terms of actually changing election results, so they’re just shooting themselves in the foot at this point as far as I can tell.
Well, I think this is their overall strategy…
- Cast doubt on the elections.
- Convince Republicans to stop voting.
- Skew the results of elections.
- Allow (require?) Republican state legislatures to over-turn election results they don’t like.
4 is closer than you might think:
Fortunately the Supremes struck it down, but I doubt they’ll stop trying.
