The thing to notice from Tweets like these (@marcorubio and @LindseyGrahamSC) is that it's now a badge of honor for members of the Trump-Fox-GOP to be criticized by the media and the left.
Similarly, convictions are a badge of honor: Flynn and others are given a hero's welcome.
Not at all. It looks to me like the ultimate defiance. They actually rejoice in their defiance.
They consider themselves heroes for bucking rules and norms and laws.
Convictions and criticism (for them) enhance their status as victims.
Hungarian scholar Balint Magyar offers a theory that explains why the US is holding out against the same tactics that caused other countries to collapse into autocracy.
His theory also explains why comparisons across nations doesn't always work. @juliaioffe 1/
Another Republican attempt to prevent ballots from being counted loses in court.
(The ballots were received on time, but the voter failed to write the date. No allegations of fraud. Just a simple mistake. GOP wanted the votes not to count)
As it turns out, I have some experience in Nevada. I spent two elections as a volunteer lawyer for the NV Dems, so I have some familiarity with NV voting.)
The first problem is that there is nothing to back up the claims of fraud . . .
The second problem is that the proposed remedy is to either declare Trump the winner (which makes no sense) or completely disenfranchise every voter in Nevada in the presidential election.
Raffensperger deserves credit for refusing to bow to pressure, and for coming forward with this. According to other reporting he and his wife have received death threats since his refusal to lie for Trump.
What we've seen for 4 years its that a number of Republicans refuse to go along. Think of all those people who marched in to testify in the impeachment hearings.
Had Raffensperger gone along, the outcome wouldn't change because a case needs evidence. . .
Had Raffensperger bowed to pressure, we'd have a Pennsylvania situation where the GOP bring cases claiming fraud, but without evidence, eventually the cases dissolve.
It's stunning that people like Graham don't even PRETEND anymore to care about free and fair elections.