another L for Fatman and Robin
2024 U.S. Presidential Election Thread: Donald Trump wins & will return to the White House; GOP wins U.S. Senate & U.S. House
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another L for Fatman and Robin
On Feb. 24, 2016 — during Donald Trump’s Republican primary campaign and more than four years before he would falsely accuse Joe Biden of election fraud — somebody registered the website www.stopthesteal.org. It may have been Roger Stone, the Republican operative who was advising Trump’s 2016 campaign and appears to have coined the phrase “Stop the Steal.”
At the time, the target of the phrase was not a Democrat. It was Ted Cruz, Trump’s closest competition for the Republican nomination. After Cruz won the Colorado caucuses in April 2016, hundreds of Trump supporters gathered at the State Capitol in Denver and chanted, “Stop the steal!” During this same period, the website posted baseless allegations claiming fraud in other states.
This bit of history comes from Charles Homans’s latest revelatory story — which The Times Magazine has just published — about the anti-democracy movement within the Republican Party. The story’s central point is that this movement to create doubt about election results is older than many people realize and larger than Trump himself.
“What is striking about the movement around the supposed theft of the 2020 election,” Charles writes, “is how much of it — the ideas, and rhetoric, and even the people involved in it — predated Trump’s presidency, and in some cases even his candidacy.” And as that movement continues today, it is based less on the narrow goal of restoring Trump to power and more on a missionary zeal to put right-wing candidates into office.
Long Live The Kane
Tyrant Titan
I’d go one step further and say the goal is beyond even getting right-wing candidates in office, but eroding faith in American institutions across the board….that’s been the biggest net effect of trumpism…These are treasonous fukks
mama bear shyt on maga tapper
This is why Joe Biden had to settle for being a top 5 and not top 2 and AOC left the squad and kissed the ring.
You got to check in with Mama bear when you land at Dulles.
Her face looks like it’s been held together with gorilla glue
AquaCityBoy
Veteran
Piff Perkins
Veteran
The way republicans have tanked their party to appeal to overly online con artists and brain rot victims is wild. Liberals certainly have overly online people who get catered to with some messaging/language but clearly democrats do a far better job of talking about shyt people care about.
Powerful endorsement for Kamala here.
My habibis (not the bots) are going off
My habibis (not the bots) are going off
KFBF
Superstar
Cause younger voters and the future are into crypto
