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Unfortunately none of this matters. The narrative has been firmly established. Republicans overwhelmingly believe the 2020 presidential election was rigged. Fur

Unfortunately none of this matters. The narrative has been firmly established. Republicans overwhelmingly believe the 2020 presidential election was rigged. Furthermore, this story won't show up in any conservative press, so Republicans will never see it anyway.

jfengel 4y ago
To support "overwhelming": the number is around 70%, as of the latest polls I could find (October 2022): https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/10/31/two-years-after-election-turmoil-gop-voters-remain-skeptical-on-elections-vote-counts/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/10/31/two-years-af... To pollsters, 70% is an overwhelming number. An election is called a "landslide" when you reach 55%. It's well outside of any conventional margin of error. When it comes to ideology like this, I'm never sure of the degree that people tell the pollsters the truth. Not that they lie, per se, but that they will repeat the expected answer without giving much thought as to their own opinion. Nonetheless, this is an extraordinary number. It means that over 2 in 3 Republicans already believe that democracy has failed, and presumably believe that it will happen again. That is a dangerous proposition.