"Here’s the thing. Al Gore conceded the 2000 election after the Supreme Court halted the Florida recount. John Kerry conceded the 2004 election the very next day, and objections to the certification of Bush’s reelection were quickly batted down by Democratic leadership. And Clinton, for all her subsequent 'illegitimate president' talk, also conceded the next day.
"None of them pushed a lie—and this is not debatable, it is a lie—that makes every U.S. election for the foreseeable future a potential civil war flashpoint. Trump will never concede, and directed a violent mob toward the U.S. Capitol to take over Congress and overturn our election. Spot the difference? [snip]
"But there is no remote equivalence to what Democrats have said or done and what Trump and Republicans continue to do to this day—destroying the American tradition of a peaceful transfer of power. To call these Republican comebacks “false equivalence” is a disservice to the comparison; there is zero equivalence."-- Anthony L. Fisher, Daily Beast, in the course of puncturing the "both sides" case Christofascist Republicans are trying to make that Democrats are election deniers, too. There's an authoritarian fascistic party on one hand and one trying to save democracy on the other. Spot the difference?
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