Analysis: American democracy may end not with a bang, but a whimper
for some time. Trump, as is so often the case, is leveraging and amplifying an existing pattern, not creating one.
What blocked Trump’s effort to retain power in 2021, you’ll recall, was just enough people in just enough places standing in his way. At the local and state level, key officials proved unwilling to accede to his false claims about the election outcome. They allowed democracy to hobble forward.One of them was a Republican named Aaron Van Langevelde.
“We have no authority to request an audit, to delay or block certification, to review inaccuracies that happened at the local level,” he said during a hearing in late November 2020. “Those results have been certified. Our duty is to look at those certified results, look at the math, and then certify. The statute couldn’t be more clear.”
The body on which Van Langevelde served voted to do exactly that. He was joined by the two Democrats on Michigan’s Board of State Canvassers; the other Republican, unwilling to similarly stand in Trump’s way, abstained. When Van Langevelde’s term ended at the end of January 2021, the state partyIt’s not just that Van Langevelde could have decided differently.
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