Russia (or China, for that matter) doesn’t need to do much to sow chaos over the 2020 election. Both Republican and Democratic leaders have finally come to the bipartisan consensus that may see our electoral process come undone. Both are preparing their voters to reject the result of the upcoming presidential election.
Speaking to former campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri, 2016 loser Hillary Clinton begged current Democratic nominee Joe Biden not to concede come November.
“Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances,” said the wife of Epstein associate Bill Clinton. “Because I think this is gonna drag out, and, eventually, I do believe he will win if we don’t give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is.”
Although Biden hasn’t adopted such unhinged rhetoric, his entire party has embraced a conspiracy theory that President Trump is actively rigging the election by manipulating the Postal Service. It’s an absurd contention if only because the Postal Service is too independent for him to have that power, and an absurd contention that Trump either teased in jest or genuinely seems to believe.
During surprise remarks at the Republican National Convention, Trump went on his own unhinged tirade against mail-in ballots.
“The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election,” Trump said in comments eerily echoing the former first lady. “What they’re doing is using COVID to steal an election. They’re using COVID to defraud the American people, all of our people, of a fair and free election.”
For three years, Democrats subjected the nation to Russiagate conspiracy theories to convince themselves that foreign interference was to blame for their loss in the 2016 election. The attempt to delegitimize our elections has long been in the making, but increasingly, we’re watching it become a bipartisan arms race. The peaceful transfer of power is foundational to the republic, but now, we’re careening toward losing it.
You think the riots and arsons in the streets are bad now? Just wait until one side doesn’t get its way. If adults on both sides of the aisle don’t take the temperature down now, it’ll be nothing less than a civil war.
