The rhetorical trick Tucker and others play is failing to acknowledge that they are the reason why "...many Americans don't believe it (the election) was real".
The rhetorical trick Tucker and others play is failing to acknowledge that they are the reason why "...many Americans don't believe it (the election) was real".
And "others" includes most GOP members of Congress who either use that trick themselves or avoid directly confronting the election denial belief.
I was able to put a question to my own GOP rep at a Town Hall meeting last year ("will you tell the people in this room that the election was not stolen?") and her response was ten minutes of pure smokescreen talking points - "there were irregularities / people are concerned / we must protect the integrity of our elections".
She acknowledged that Biden is President, and said we should all be "looking forward rather than backward" but would not directly state that no, it was not stolen. Even in front of a couple dozen constituents in a meeting room with no TV cameras. Because that would imply that the emperor of the party has no clothes. Can't do that!
Instead, most of the constituents walked out with the message that their representative agrees that there was something fishy with the election. Not helpful.
Sadly, this is the best we get even from the less crazy, less MAGA Republicans.
The rhetorical trick Tucker and others play is failing to acknowledge that they are the reason why "...many Americans don't believe it (the election) was real".
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And "others" includes most GOP members of Congress who either use that trick themselves or avoid directly confronting the election denial belief.
I was able to put a question to my own GOP rep at a Town Hall meeting last year ("will you tell the people in this room that the election was not stolen?") and her response was ten minutes of pure smokescreen talking points - "there were irregularities / people are concerned / we must protect the integrity of our elections".
She acknowledged that Biden is President, and said we should all be "looking forward rather than backward" but would not directly state that no, it was not stolen. Even in front of a couple dozen constituents in a meeting room with no TV cameras. Because that would imply that the emperor of the party has no clothes. Can't do that!
Instead, most of the constituents walked out with the message that their representative agrees that there was something fishy with the election. Not helpful.
Sadly, this is the best we get even from the less crazy, less MAGA Republicans.
"I'm just asking questions..."
Thomas, you are SO a man after my own heart . . .