Opinion | There’s a small pro-democracy wing on the right. It’s going to get steamrolled – By Zeeshan Aleem (MSNBC) / May 13, 2024
There’s a war brewing on the right over whether to accept the 2024 elections.
There is a fight brewing on the right over whether American democracy should be saved or dismantled. On one side, there are organized Republican efforts to persuade other Republicans that the electoral system should be trusted and that the basis for questioning results should be provable fraud. On the other side, there are increasingly sophisticated efforts to discredit the 2024 election even before it happens so as to ensure widespread chaos, and perhaps another insurrection attempt, in the case that former President Donald Trump loses again.
My money’s on the election denialists prevailing, unfortunately. They have more influence, and their audience is already primed to receive their message after years of Trump propaganda. Disturbingly, the pro-democracy wing of the GOP is a relatively fringe effort, and not nearly strong enough to compete with the lies spewed by its rival faction.
A new Associated Press report explains how one group of Republicans is striving to promote trust in the election system among conservatives. The R Street Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University have partnered to support “a conservative agenda for democracy” by teaming up with Republicans who are administering elections. Under this initiative, a number of Republican governors, election administration officials, scholars and pro-democracy advocates in multiple states have met to discuss how to encourage Republican buy-in into the upcoming election.
“The pro-democracy wing of the GOP is a relatively fringe effort, and not nearly strong enough to compete with the lies spewed by its rival faction.”
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