Tuesday, January 5, 2021

QOTD -- Legitimacy

 

"Considered in the context of a 30-year assault on the legitimacy of Democratic leaders and Democratic constituencies (of which Republican-led voter suppression is an important part), the present attempt to disrupt and derail the certification of electoral votes is but the next step, in which Republicans say, outright, that a Democrat has no right to hold power and try to make that reality. The next Democrat to win the White House — whether it’s Biden getting re-elected or someone else winning for the first time — will almost certainly face the same flood of accusations, challenges and lawsuits, on the same false grounds of 'fraud.'”-- Jamelle Bouie in the New York Times today on "Can Only Republicans Win Elections?", to which the answer from the rotted- out Republican Party appears to "Yes!"