A new analysis from the Washington Post shows that the majority of Republican nominees in Senate, House, and key statewide races have adopted Trump’s 2020 election denialism as their own—“a finding with profoundly worrisome consequences,” sbg1 writes.
an analysis showing that a majority of Republican nominees for the Senate, House, and key statewide races have adopted the former President’s 2020-election denialism as their own—a finding with profoundly worrisome consequences not just for the next Presidential election or the balance of power in Washington but for American democracy.
Many of the G.O.P.’s candidates in marquee races around the country seem determined to conduct politics in Trump’s inflammatory, divisive fashion. They’re not adopting only election denialism as their own but the whole constellation of Trumpist provocation. In one ad, the—whom Trump has endorsed—smashes television sets with a sledgehammer and lights a face mask on fire with a blow torch. She promises to finish Trump’s wall.
” is a direct homage to Trump’s false claims during the 2018 midterms about an “invasion” at the southern border by a “caravan” of migrants. In it, Masters demands that the government build Trump’s wall and “lock this border down.” He warns that, “if we don’t do these things right now,” in a phrase ripped right from Trump’s rally playlist, “we’re not gonna have a country.”
Perhaps Masters forgot that Trump and the G.O.P. lost the House in 2018 with that message. Or perhaps, as with Trump’s 2020 defeat, he simply prefers to wish away an unpleasant political reality. But both history and an awful lot of the evidence are on the Republicans’ side in 2022. The wishful thinking might well be on the Democratic side this time around. “Dems can win,” Brazile wrote me in an e-mail, on Thursday, but not unless voters are clear on the consequences. “To the extent this is a referendum on Biden and Washington, Dems lose,” she said. The only way it works out otherwise is for the electorate to grasp that democracy itself is on the ballot.
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