On Tuesday, Virginia voters authorised a constitutional modification that would give Democrats 4 new Home seats within the state. It was a slender victory for democratic voters and congressional Democrats, because the referendum handed with 51% of the vote, resulting in quick court docket challenges, which resulted in a circuit court docket choose ruling in favor of the Republicans, who challenged the concept the redistricting effort was ever authorized from the beginning. Contemplating how shut the vote was, it’s not stunning that Republicans challenged it, simply because it’s not stunning that Democrats have appealed the circuit choose’s determination, sending the case to the state supreme court docket.
You recognize what else isn’t stunning, however ought to be? The president of the USA, citing no proof by any means, instantly took to social media to say the Virginia election was “RIGGED.”
“A RIGGED ELECTION TOOK PLACE LAST NIGHT IN THE GREAT COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA!” President Donald Trump wrote in a Fact Social publish Wednesday. “All day lengthy Republicans have been profitable, the Spirit was unbelievable, till the very finish when, after all, there was a large ‘Mail In Poll Drop!’’ The place have I heard that earlier than — And the Democrats eked out one other Crooked Victory! Six to 5 goes to 10 to at least one, and but the Presidential Election in November was very near a 50-50 cut up. Along with all the things else, the language on the Referendum was purposefully unintelligible and misleading. As everybody is aware of, I’m an awfully good particular person, and even I had no thought what the hell they have been speaking about within the Referendum, and neither do they! Let’s see if the Courts will repair this travesty of ‘Justice.’”
To start with — Mr. president, sir, an “terribly good particular person” would have a a lot firmer grasp on when phrases must be capitalized and the precise perform of citation marks.
However there’s a bigger subject than Trump’s penchant for being comically delusional at play right here. Underneath Trump, blatant lies and round the clock propaganda have grow to be so normalized that we barely even wince when the commander in chief is clearly simply making shit up on a whim. And we’re not even speaking about believable propaganda. We’re speaking about easily-debunked falsehoods that wouldn’t face up to even essentially the most minimal scrutiny underneath a political panorama the place easy details nonetheless mattered.
Trump is actually resurrecting previous lies that did nothing however trigger a riot on the U.S. Capitol the primary time round. He’s nonetheless mendacity about mail-in ballots getting used to cheat, an thought he has repeated again and again for years, however has by no means substantiated with even a modicum of proof. He seems to nonetheless be underneath the impression that Republicans main the vote depend at first, however then trailing Democrats as extra votes get counted, is proof of malfeasance, when, really, it’s simply proof of math persevering with to math. (Not that our “terribly good” president has any actual understanding of how math works. Simply ask RFK Jr.)
To at the present time, Trump and his spineless underlings are nonetheless perpetuating the president’s “huge lie” relating to the 2020 election being rigged in opposition to him. And Trump is now reflexively transferring that provably false narrative to any election that doesn’t go his manner.
And, once more, this type of propaganda has grow to be regular. These of us who acknowledge Trump for the compulsive liar and grifter that he’s are too overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of his lies — which come at us on at the least an hourly foundation each single day — that we couldn’t presumably sustain with all of it, not to mention problem greater than a fraction of it. And his cultists both don’t care that he’s persistently mendacity to their faces, or they’re simply too devoid of the capability for essential, impartial thought even to know they’re perpetually being duped.
The saddest half is that making blatant propaganda commonplace like this may doubtless have an enduring impact that may stay lengthy after the orange menace is out of workplace.
Unhappy — terrifying, really.
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