Following the failed insurrection on January 6, 2021, the majority of the Americans who had believed or spouted Trump and Giuliani lies about Trump winning the election eventually allowed the truth to seep into their consciousness. For some diehards, the Big Lie remains central to their political identities. When I encounter these people, I move off in the other direction, preferring not to spend my time with anyone living in the anti-democratic alternate universe occupied by liars, losers, and authoritarian louts.
In short, anyone refusing to acknowledge by this late date that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election and that Joe Biden was duly elected in the free and democratic way that the Constitution sets forth, well, those anyones should be avoided just as their views on the matter should be shunned and/or ridiculed.
Near the end of last night's debate, J. D. Vance proved that, despite all his slick sophistry, cardboard charm, and well-lubed rhetoric, he remains a devout dead-ender who does not deserve the slightest consideration for the Constitutional office to which he aspires. Vance let the world know that he would surely fail the test of anyone aspiring to be Vice-President: if he had the opportunity to do the bidding of Boss Trump, he would refuse to certify the votes of the Electoral College, thus blocking the peaceful transfer of power that undergirds our democratic republic. The entire transcript can be found here, but here near the end of the debate is the core part of that exchange last evening:
TW: . . . . This [January 6 insurrection] was a threat to our democracy in a way that we had not seen. And it manifested itself because of Donald Trump's inability to say, he is still saying he didn't lose the election. I would just ask that. Did he lose the 2020 election?
JDV: Tim, I'm focused on the future. Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their mind in the wake of the 2020 COVID situation?
TW: That is a damning--that is a damning non-answer.
Governor Walz concluded the debate with this, which, in his commonsense cut-to-the-chase way, sums up the choice on November 5:
America, I think you've got a really clear choice on this election of who's going to honor . . . democracy and who's going to honor Donald Trump.
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