Vance, a freshman senator who took office in 2023, told ABC News in February that the 2020 election had problems, and endorsing the Trump campaign’s scheme to anoint alternate slates of electors from states he had narrowly lost.
“I think there is a political solution to those problems,” Vance said. “So litigating which slate of electors was legitimate I think is fundamentally the political solution to the problems that existed in 2020.”
“If I had been vice president, I would’ve told the states like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the U.S. Congress should’ve fought over it from there,” Vance said.
I’m pretty convinced the entire goddamn Republican party is happy to end democracy. The power brokers have decided they want full dictator for life and the idiots thinking they will benefit by allowing it are going to regret it infinitely more than the Brexit hangover.
I’m pretty convinced the entire goddamn Republican party is happy to end democracy.
Yes, they have been slowly moving towards that view since the great depression and new deal made it so they couldn’t win an election on the strength of their ideas alone. So they tried making up shit about Communists in the 1950s, and when that wasn’t enough they started bringing KKK types into their party by dog whistling about civil rights laws with Goldwater and Nixon in the 1960s.
Lying to voters and opposing the rights of racial minorities to (among other things) be able to vote without intimidation was already super anti-democratic and they have been all about that for 50 years or more. Really the only thing different now is how they’re saying quiet parts loud.
Remember when people said things like, “At least Trump is an idiot narcissist, if someone halfway intelligent were to come along with his politics and lack of morals we’d be in real trouble”? Vance is that guy, he can play up his bullshit blue collar back story when he’s telling the Republican culture warriors we need to deregulate businesses, he can play up his Yale law school education when he’s telling the business leaders he needs to go after immigrants, and he can play up his military record when he’s telling Congress to defund Ukraine. He’s a bullshit artist who can be all things to all people and the only consistent belief he’s shown throughout his career is that he personally ought to have more power.
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So this dude is basically the end of democracy. Yey!
I’m pretty convinced the entire goddamn Republican party is happy to end democracy. The power brokers have decided they want full dictator for life and the idiots thinking they will benefit by allowing it are going to regret it infinitely more than the Brexit hangover.
Yes, they have been slowly moving towards that view since the great depression and new deal made it so they couldn’t win an election on the strength of their ideas alone. So they tried making up shit about Communists in the 1950s, and when that wasn’t enough they started bringing KKK types into their party by dog whistling about civil rights laws with Goldwater and Nixon in the 1960s.
Lying to voters and opposing the rights of racial minorities to (among other things) be able to vote without intimidation was already super anti-democratic and they have been all about that for 50 years or more. Really the only thing different now is how they’re saying quiet parts loud.
Remember when people said things like, “At least Trump is an idiot narcissist, if someone halfway intelligent were to come along with his politics and lack of morals we’d be in real trouble”? Vance is that guy, he can play up his bullshit blue collar back story when he’s telling the Republican culture warriors we need to deregulate businesses, he can play up his Yale law school education when he’s telling the business leaders he needs to go after immigrants, and he can play up his military record when he’s telling Congress to defund Ukraine. He’s a bullshit artist who can be all things to all people and the only consistent belief he’s shown throughout his career is that he personally ought to have more power.