Hostility not just to government but to our democratic system of elections has been growing on the right for quite some time. ed_kilgore writes
A Trump supporter protests Biden’s inauguration outside the Arizona State Capitol in 2021. Photo: The Washington Post/The Washington Post via Getty Im One of the maddening things about Donald Trump’s insistence that the 2020 election was “stolen” is that no proof of election fraud is required to sustain the lie.
The identification of conservative political causes as synonymous with Americanism isn’t new, of course. But it’s turning from a rhetorical device to an actual creed whereby the enemies of right-wing political success are deemed enemies to the country itself. This line of reasoning lets MAGA politicians and activists justify any means of resistance, including the often-threatened “Second Amendment remedies.
A former GOP operative told Draper the particular susceptibility of Arizona Republicans to this sort of madness may be attributable to a huge retiree population prone to conspiracy theories:
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