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When 2016 election was won by Trump, it was at most a minority viewpoint that the election was rigged - in fact I've never heard of it said. Trump lost the 202
by h0l0cube 6y ago
When 2016 election was won by Trump, it was at most a minority viewpoint that the election was rigged - in fact I've never heard of it said. Trump lost the 2020 election, and it was presupposed that the election will be rigged, leading to violent protests in complaint of the election result.
The real problem is that there's an epistemic crisis whereby people have lost trust in long-lived and functioning institutions, and that has been fuelled by conspiracy theorists, some of which have been given credence by the sitting president (e.g., Alex Jones).
- welcome_dragon 6y agoThe word "rigged" may not be technically correct for what people were saying about the 2016 election but there were people in Congress who opposed certifying and/or counting the electoral votes because of ... mostly Russian interference. https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/06/politics/electoral-college-vote-count-objections/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/06/politics/electoral-college-vo...
- h0l0cube 6y agoI agree with that, but there's a big difference in scale between political manoeuvrers in Congress and a hostile rabble invading Capitol House - and the millions of aggrieved voters that support them.
- eyeball 6y agoPelosi: "Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts." https://mobile.twitter.com/speakerpelosi/status/864522009048494080?lang=en https://mobile.twitter.com/speakerpelosi/status/864522009048...
- thu2111 6y agoMinority according to who? I feel like practically every US news source was flooded for years with wacked out conspiracy theories alleging that Putin controlled everything and had "hacked the election". It was all garbage.