Here's some more not to be read by leftards.
In the case of election denialism (the authors’ real worry concerns the 2024 election), one can easily find reasons enough for doubt about the conduct of the 2020 election in the liberal essayist Molly Ball’s now-infamous 2021 Time essay. In triumphalist fashion, she records Democratic sources bragging about how the Left ran circles around the naive 2020 Trump campaign, in ways that seem unethical and at times illegal.
She describes how bicoastal elites and the Left, not rubes in Wyoming or Utah, formed what she herself called a “cabal” and “conspiracy,” a “paranoid fever dream” that focused on raising huge amounts of money to warp the campaign and election:
That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream—a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. . . . There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes . . . an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans, of ceos, Silicon Valley billionaires, street protestors. . . . Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding.
Most Americans do not recall a rural white America determined to question the results of the 2016 election in the manner of a large faction of a nearly unhinged Left. There was the surreal 2016 ensemble of loud Hollywood celebrities—Martin Sheen, Debra Messing, James Cromwell, B. D. Wong, Noah Wyle, Bob Odenkirk, Moby—who, night after night, aired commercials urging electors to reject their constitutional duties of voting consistently with their states’ popular votes. In insurrectionary fashion, such potentially “faithless” electors were asked to vote instead for Hillary Clinton, the loser in their respective states. In a fit of denialism, Hillary Clinton herself, the current House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, and even Jimmy Carter all wrote off Donald Trump as an “illegitimate” president, one put in power by Russian “interference.” Is this all permissible election denialism, as opposed to the cruder denialism of rural whites?
The gweggy turdy wee paki argument is addressed, too:
The authors offer a lengthy excursus on the now trendy narrative of a supposedly unfair Senate. They complain that it privileges rural whites by selecting two senators per state regardless of population, rather than by the demographic criteria of the House. Inconveniently for the authors, the Democratic Party has controlled the Senate for eighteen of the twenty-four years of the twenty-first century, while the gop has had a majority in the House for sixteen years. So according to their power-imbalance argument, rural voters seem to have preferred Democrats to Republicans for the last twenty-four years, while urban voters have favored Republicans. In fact, the whole argument is infantile, as is their preposterous claim that gerrymandering—a bipartisan habit—has been monopolized by rural whites.
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Equally ignorantly, the authors write that “in the 20th century,” “unlike earlier periods,” larger states have been Democratic, while smaller states have been Republican. This is pure fantasy, given the thirty-two-year-long tenure of the California governors Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger; or the present twenty-four-year span of Texan Republican governors, George W. Bush, Rick Perry, and Greg Abbott; or James Thompson, Jim Edgar, George Ryan, and Bruce Rauner of Illinois, not to mention the administrations of Nelson Rockefeller and George Pataki in New York or the current quarter-century tenure of continuous Florida Republican governors.
https://newcriterion.com/article/all-the-rage/Just don't read it, leftards.
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