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A republican sees this election as an attack on democracy -- an election that was stolen. A democrat sees the election as a grab for power. Both are right in their actions from their own point of view.


if it were trump who won by the same narrow margin i would not have been surprised if the exact same thing happened only with the sides reversed. I don't see any difference between the two sides, only that one is on top and one is not and from time to time it rolls over. This is why the "deplatforming" is eyeroll inducing, eventually the pendulum swings back the other way and it will be the other side getting deplatformed. and so on


False equivalence, because there is zero rational basis to believe the election was stolen. People who are motivated to convince others of this are lying to them. Some are literally inventing "evidence" like registered voter counts that have been shown to be inaccurate, or arguing that states violated their own laws, when the state supreme court, the final adjudicator, rules otherwise.

Frankly, it doesn't matter "who is right in their own point of view." We have to be able to stipulate to a basic set of facts that are supported by objective evidence. You can't just make shit up and expect everyone else to cater to it.


That's not how Mitch McConnell sees it. He says the election wasn't even close.




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