Political Quotes

“finally, on election undermining by the Republican National Committee, one of the biggest lessons of last November was that, for all of the attempts by MAGA Republicans to undermine our elections, the roots of our democracy remain strong and run deep. For 2 years, we heard the same thing over and over again from the MAGA brigade: that the 2020 elections were stolen, that President Biden was illegitimate, and that we couldn't trust that our votes were properly counted. Well, Americans simply didn't buy it. They saw that the elections were fair. Some have said these were the fairest elections we have ever had. Yet, in every virtual race last fall, MAGA candidates who campaigned explicitly on denying the results of the 2020 election and overturning it were rejected by the voters. It was a good result for the country, for our democracy. Frankly, it was a necessary wake-up call for the GOP, telling them: Get rid of the Big Lie once and for all. The American people aren't buying it. Maybe a small band of extreme rightwingers is--MAGA people--but not everybody else. It was so disturbing to read in the Washington Post that the RNC is not abandoning the conspiracy of the Big Lie so much as it is doubling down. According to reports, they are working on creating a ``permanent infrastructure in every state to ramp up `election integrity' activities'' as a way to cater to that portion of their base that still believes in wacky election fraud conspiracies.…”