I’m old enough to remember when “election denial” was the highest of crimes and misdemeanors.\u00a0 And if you’re much over four years old, so are you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But (predictably<\/a>) not as re Senator Bob Casey in Pennsylvania<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Donald Trump\u2019s stubborn denial of his defeat \u2014 his refusal to accept the legitimate election results of 2020 \u2014 was bad. January 6 was terrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But we saw a similar rejection of election results from Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams two years earlier, and she became a Democratic hero \u2014 literally wearing a cape in one photoshoot<\/a> \u2014 and a favorite subject of the Democrats\u2019 celebrity-industrial complex<\/a>. (And remember, she\u2019s apparently exempt from masking for Covid, while kids sitting right next to her had to stay masked<\/a>.) She may never become governor of Georgia, but she can always be proud of holding the position of President of United Earth<\/a> (selected, not elected).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n To review, Abrams\u2019s denial of election results was forgivable, Trump\u2019s was the trigger for \u201cthe worst attack on democracy since the Civil War,\u201d in Biden\u2019s words, and now Casey\u2019s denial is just a prudent desire to see every vote counted. You don\u2019t have to be Columbo to recognize a suspicious pattern in which a Democratic candidate\u2019s denial of election results is excusable, but a Republican candidate\u2019s denial of election results is a dangerous threat to American governance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I had a hunch that pendulum was going to swing back, and hard, yet again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m old enough to remember when “election denial” was the highest of crimes and misdemeanors.\u00a0 And if you’re much over four years old, so are you. But (predictably) not as re Senator Bob Casey in Pennsylvania: I had a hunch that pendulum was going to swing back, and hard, yet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20,119,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-election-integrity","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88734,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88733\/revisions\/88734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n