Opinion: Are Sen. Josh Hawley, Republicans really a threat to democracy for questioning election? – By Michael Ryan (Kansas City Star) / January 6 2021
Republicans appear to be tilting at windmills in challenging some Electoral College results in Congress.
But some windmills need tilting at. And it doesn’t mean democracy will come tumbling down.
Moreover, the last time some Democrats in Congress didn’t officially contest a Republican presidential victory was way back in 1988. That would be three Republican presidential wins in a row now that have been objected to in Congress (George W. Bush’s two wins, and Trump’s). We’ve somehow managed to make it this far without having our democracy toppled.
And is 2016 such a distant memory? Where was the left’s angst about destroying democracy when there was open talk in their ranks and in the media hoping that electors would switch their votes from Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton — despite no legitimate concerns about voter fraud? In contrast to the hyperventilating going on today about Republicans not voting to certify some states’ electoral results, USA Today ran an objective and dispassionate look at calls to deny Trump his 2016 win. It’s not so academic a question now, for some reason.
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