Posted on 12/11/2019 3:46:37 AM PST by Kaslin
In the lead-up to the 2016 election, Democrats fretted openly about the possibility that Donald Trump, being a rather poor sport, might refuse to acknowledge an election loss. To be fair, Trump refused to state that he would accept election results, depending on the circumstances: "I'll keep you in suspense," he stated in his Oct. 19, 2016, debate with Hillary Clinton. Clinton, for her part, called his statement "horrifying," adding that he was harming American democracy.
Trump, of course, won. And Clinton spent the next couple of years suggesting openly that she had been robbed in the election. Democrats blamed Clinton's election loss on Russian interference, on voter suppression, on anything but Clinton's campaign performance.
That wasn't a particular shock: After George W. Bush won the 2000 election, many Democrats continued to maintain that he was an illegitimate president. And not much changed in the nearly two decades since: In 2018, Democrats insisted that Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams had actually defeated Brian Kemp, despite having lost by approximately 55,000 votes. To this day, Democratic presidential candidates repeat the lie that Kemp stole the election from Abrams.
Now in the run-up to 2020, Democrats are already suggesting that if President Trump wins, the election will have been illegitimate. This time, they're pointing to Trump's supposed attempt to gather information from the Ukrainian government on potential 2020 rival Joe Biden in return for release of much-needed military aid. In fact, Democrats state that if Trump is not impeached, the 2020 results will inevitably be deemed improper.
On Sunday, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who suggested way back in 2017 that though Trump was "legally elected," he was "not legitimate," doubled down: "The president, based on his past performance, will do everything he can to make it not a fair election. And this is part of what gives us the urgency to proceed with this impeachment." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said last week, "The president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit." Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, told CNN's Jake Tapper, "If you have a corrupt executive who is willing to maintain power by corrupting our election, there's an urgency there." Former federal prosecutor Anne Milgram wrote in The New York Times, "Who gets to pick the next president of the United States -- President Trump, Ukraine, Russia or us?"
Impeachment, then, must be used without proper evidence of a crime in order to prevent Trump from stealing the election. By this logic, any suspicion of illegitimacy in an upcoming election becomes an excuse for ousting a legitimately elected president. This is a vicious cycle: illegitimate impeachments based on perception of illegitimate elections. And with Pelosi promising that our very civilization is at stake -- a contention she made over the weekend -- over the outcome of the next election, we can be sure that the pressure will continue to rise.
Things are already ugly in American politics. A republic can only be maintained when the people have faith that even if their side loses an election, that election was legitimate -- and only when people believe that there is a tomorrow. With Democrats openly claiming that they can run an end-around with the electoral process because they don't trust the results, and stating that any future loss is evidence of corruption and a representation of the end of the country, things are about to get a lot uglier.
No and if the GOP fails to take the House we will get 2 more years of Impeachment.
Of course they won’t, They’ll never except an election they lose ever. That’s one of the main reasons they must be utterly destroyed.
How bizarre?, How bizarre?
The division is permanent. A LOT of people do not realize that one fact. This is going to get worse. The fabric has just begun to tear. The impeachment mess is going to cause it to rip. Watch this become true.
It’s for our own good. /s
We'll get the house back, get 60 in the Senate and President Trump for 4 more years.
Tire fires in the streets by convention season, is my prediction.
Every demokrap 2020 candidate should be asked the question over and over. The Presidential debate ... it should only be asked of the demokrap stooge candidate. (I recall that HRC was not asked the question in 2016... only Trump.)
Nope
If Trump is re-elected, Democrats will not accept the results and the violence will increase.
Yes, but only if Hillary wins.
The Democrats all claim Trump is trying to corrupt the election, AGAIN.
This means that they do not accept the Mueller Report, the 4 congressional investigations nor the recent IG report.
Democrats are rejecting FACTS on many things like Climate Change to further their socialist dreams.
They were so close to cementing a permanent majority and then Trump inconveniently came along.
I pray that you’re right. After all the evil deeds that these commies have done and are still doing there needs to be a reckoning.
Where are the folks; that; like Reagan said, "I didn't leave..." (we all know the rest)?
But Ronnie had somewhere to go.
What would happen to the Republican party if a mass movement of Dems infiltrated the ranks?
Become like the states being invaded by folks fleeing California??
Or would they go over to the Libertarians?
(After all, ‘liber’ is common to both.)
OMC : “How Bizarre”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2oC99e_xPY
Very funny. The 'rats have never accepted that they lost in '16. Of course they are on track to lose in '20 by an even wider margin. The only thing that could prevent a Trump landslide in '20 would be massive election fraud on the part of the 'rats. I believe the amount of election fraud necessary for the 'rats to prevent a Trump landslide, to even win, would have to be so overt, so obvious that I would say it would be President Trump's duty to refuse to accept it, possibly even declare marshal law and curfews until another election could be organized.
No. They won’t accept it.
Pelosi has already stated the American people cannot be trusted to vote. Nadler already setting up that Trump is trying to steal 2020...uh...looks like they are already trying to steal the election themselves!
So the real question is: Will we accept the result if President Trump loses?
It depends on who gets the most EVs.
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