Is America’s democracy in trouble?

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What Trump’s Refusal To Concede Says About American Democracy

At nearly 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, the morning after Election Day 2016, the Associated Press declared Donald Trump the winner of the presidential election. Around the same time, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton phoned Trump to concede, a call she made at the urging of then-President Barack Obama.

That Thursday, less than 48 hours after the election results, Obama met with his successor to help him prepare for the transition to the presidency.

Four years later, nothing like that has happened. More than a week has passed since major news outlets declared Joe Biden the winner, but Trump has refused to concede. Instead, his legal team is pushing efforts to invalidate the results, and his administration won’t work with Biden officials on the transition of power. Top Republicans in Congress and around the country aren’t openly acknowledging Biden’s victory either.

That some Republicans won’t go along with the traditional niceties following a presidential election (like congratulating the victor from the opposing party) isn’t that important. But the sitting president’s refusal to acknowledge electoral defeat is worrisome, as it raises the prospect that he will not uphold a core tenet of democracy: Elections determine who is in power, and those who lose surrender power peacefully. The behavior of top Republican Party officials — subtly acknowledging that Trump must leave office on Jan. 20 but not openly rebuking his conduct — in some ways also violates that core value. And the combination of Trump’s and his party’s behavior raises a serious question: Is America’s democracy in trouble?

Yes, Trumpers have already proven this with their "win at all costs", "alternative facts", Christ like worship mentalities.

Almost everything Trump has done has been against the founding principles of this country. Trumpers don't care.

Trump lies about everything. Trumpers believe him.

Every characteristic Trumpers proclaimed that they hated about Barrack Obama, Trump also possessed but in orders of magnitudes worse. Yet, bowing before Trump is their ideology.

This tweet from The New York Times’s Max Fisher, who has written extensively about the erosion of democracies abroad, is particularly apt:

“Whatever happens now, we may spend the rest of our lives dealing with the party-wide normalization of:

• Refusal to concede losses
• Refusal to transfer power
• Efforts to overturn election results
• Delegitimation of outparty governance

Very hard to unring this bell.”

Not respecting the election results is problematic on its own. But considering the crisis the nation is facing now — a new surge in coronavirus cases — Trump’s actions are particularly dangerous. Now more than ever, an effective transition of power is of the utmost importance.

Not only is Trump blocking his advisers from helping the incoming Biden administration get ready to deal with the pandemic, but the defeated president has largely disengaged from the COVID-19 crisis himself. In terms of managing the virus, America will be functionally without a president for two months.

Trump is playing golf as the nation goes back to almost 2,000 covid related deaths per day.

But Trumpers don't care about the hospitalization or deaths of their fellow citizens because Trump told them COVID is a hoax!!

 

[AnthonyJames]

And your conspirators declared you would rape and kill infants in the street if that's what it took to get rid of Trump. Do you expect to be taken serious?

 

[PsyOps]

Is America’s democracy in trouble?

With fascists like you? Absolutely!

 

[Yooper]

Is America’s democracy in trouble?

Only from the likes of the OP. Preobrazhensky would no doubt nod approvingly from the grave at its efforts.

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[Rommey]

What Trump’s Refusal To Concede Says About American Democracy

...and he's just following the Gore Principle. Gore didn't concede until the day before the Electoral College was to cast votes.

 

[gemma_rae]

What Trump’s Refusal To Concede Says About American Democracy

It says more about the staggering depth of corruption in the swamp that you so love than anything else.

But it also says there may still be a glimmer of hope left that we have a means to fight against it and preserve genuine democracy, not the Marxist regurgitations you try to stick down the throats of the sheep.

 

[Yooper]

...Preobrazhensky....

In case anyone was wondering about/is interested in the reference, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky was considered a key individual for the Bolsheviks' agit-prop (agitation-propaganda) efforts. In other words, one of the chief gas-lighters. Here's the book he's known for:

The ABC of Communism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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[Yooper]

For those who don't quite understand what's meant by "The Swamp":

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[Yooper]

On a more serious note, regarding Trump:

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