{"id":47640,"date":"2020-11-18T12:54:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47640"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:54:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:54:03","slug":"trump-brags-about-turning-a-majority-of-republicans-against-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47640","title":{"rendered":"Trump Brags About Turning a Majority of Republicans Against Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things for which Donald Trump will be remembered. They include being impeached for his complicity with Russian election interference, caging children and separating them from their parents, wasting billions of dollars on a fake border wall that Mexico will never pay for, alienating allies, and driving the economy into a persistent recession. Wait, that aint all.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-titanic-gop.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Republican, GOP\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45545\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump has also presided over the despoiling the environment, skimming millions of taxpayer funds for himself, wantonly violating innumerable laws, humiliating the nation with his hostile and infantile behavior, and, of course, being responsible for the deaths of a quarter of a million Americans due to his ignorance, incompetence, and deliberate mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s quite a legacy. But it is apparently not enough for Trump. He is using his final days in the White House to purposefully undermine respect for the most fundamental American principles. Rather than accept the obvious and decisive defeat that he was dealt by President-elect Joe Biden, Trump has chosen to malign democracy with repeated assertions that the election he so deservedly lost was <em>&#8220;rigged&#8221;<\/em> by an implausible cabal of Democrats, Republicans, press, tech companies, civil servants, and even members of his own administration whom he appointed.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Trump&#8217;s bitter and selfish defiance of reality has resulted in an attitudinal shift among his weak minded cult followers and Fox News junkies. The consequences have been affirmed in a new poll by Reuters\/Ipsos. And Trump is so proud of the findings that he featured it in his Wednesday morning tweetstorm:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This was a rigged election. No Republican Poll Watchers allowed, voting machine \u201cglitches\u201d all over the place (meaning they got caught cheating!), voting after election ended, and so much more! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YDh7A7wxLW\">https:\/\/t.co\/YDh7A7wxLW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1329064787142172673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, literally everything Trump alleged in that tweet is verifiably false. Some of it was even stipulated as false by his attorneys in one of the many court cases he&#8217;s filed. For the record, Trump is 1 in 24, a nearly perfect score of lawsuit losses. But never fear, according to his lead attorney, Rudy Giuliani, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47625\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">losing is all part of his master plan<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of his morning Twantrum was filled with baseless allegations that the Democratic victory was achieved by cheating, for which Trump has zero proof. Consequently, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47592\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">most of his tweets were flagged<\/a><\/strong> by Twitter as disputed, misleading or otherwise false. But that wrist-slapping hasn&#8217;t deterred him from continuing to lie. Nine of his 13 Wednesday morning tweets were also flagged.<\/p>\n<p>The link that Trump provided in the tweet above led to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-poll\/half-of-republicans-say-biden-won-because-of-a-rigged-election-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN27Y1AJ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">results of a poll<\/a><\/strong> that reveals the extent to which Trump has poisoned the political environment. It found that Republicans &#8211; Trump&#8217;s base &#8211; have abandoned any association with American democratic values. They are now a confederacy of anti-democratic subversives whose loyalty is only to their Dear Leader:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Altogether, 73% of those polled agreed that Biden won the election while 5% thought Trump won. But when asked specifically whether Biden had &#8216;rightfully won,&#8217; Republicans showed they were suspicious about how Biden\u2019s victory was obtained. Fifty-two percent of Republicans said that Trump &#8216;rightfully won,&#8217; while only 29% said that Biden had rightfully won. [&#8230;] 68% of Republicans said they were concerned that the election was &#8216;rigged.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So a majority of Republicans share the delusional belief that Trump was the actual winner of the election. For that to be true, six million votes would have to be thrown out and the results from at least three states overturned. It&#8217;s a preposterous idea that has been nurtured by Trump&#8217;s relentless whining that he&#8217;s a victim of an extraordinarily powerful league of evildoers. His tweets scream out <em>&#8220;UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;I WON THE ELECTION.&#8221;<\/em> And his minions chant along blindly.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget to give due credit for this mass hysteria to Fox News, a network that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-news\/fox-news-has-cast-doubt-or-pushed-conspiracy-theories-about-election-results-nearly-600\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters has documented<\/a><\/strong> as having <em>&#8220;cast doubt on or pushed conspiracy theories about the election results at least 574 times&#8221;<\/em> just since Fox themselves called the election for Joe Biden. That&#8217;s the sort of air cover that turns Trump&#8217;s babbling into a thick mass of dogma that coats the brain cavities of his Deplorables.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, Trump, Republicans, and Fox News are doing the dirty work for Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and other foreign adversaries who are thrilled to see the American people losing faith in their own government. It is an unambiguous act of treason. What&#8217;s more, Trump himself used to think so. In 2016 he said that Democrats who disputed the legitimacy of his election were <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47608\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a direct threat to our democracy<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Democrats, however, were not disparaging democratic processes or voting systems. They were questioning the unsavory relationships between Trump and Russian operatives. Those relationships were well documented and overtly damaging. The only party that is openly hostile to American democracy is Trump&#8217;s Republican Party. And that will remain an obstacle to the healing of our nation for the new Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>It is, therefore, critical that the crimes of the Trump administration be investigated and prosecuted in order to exorcise the demons summoned by Trump and his cohorts. If there aren&#8217;t consequences for those crimes, there will be no deterrent for others going forward. And worse, there will be no moral standing for the prospect of American leadership as an example of democratic freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> News Corpse was notified by Twitter recently that its account would be suspended for repeated violations of their rules. Which is strange because it has never been cited for a single violation in 11 years and they didn&#8217;t even identify this alleged violation. They just bounced the account and its 7,000 followers. So if anyone wants to tweet articles from this website, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things for which Donald Trump will be remembered. They include being impeached for his complicity with Russian election interference, caging children and separating them from their parents, wasting billions of dollars on a fake border wall that Mexico will never pay for, alienating allies, and driving the economy into a persistent recession. 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