The real tragedy here is that Trump’s lies have been swallowed hook, line and sinker by far too many people. Regardless of what happens in the next six weeks they will probably always believe those lies.
It’s a perfect example of Lincoln’s Wolf’s Dictionary parable.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
In this situation we have not agreed upon the definition of election integrity. We see free and fair elections trying to be overturned. They see elections tainted by irregularities and fraud.
The problem is that each side is convinced they are champions of liberty, democracy and the Constitution.
I don’t know how you solve this problem.
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