Democrats’ Two-Faced Primary Game

Democrats and their media supporters have been playing a two-faced game ever since last January 6. On the one hand, they say that the Capitol riot and Donald Trump’s broader “Stop the Steal” movement present a unique and continuing threat to our democracy, which requires an emergency footing and the suspension of many of the usual rules of politics. On the other hand, their actions reveal, over and over again, that they view January 6 and Stop the Steal simply as means to obtaining a partisan advantage.

They have not reconsidered any of their prior attacks on the legitimacy of elections; to the contrary, they nominated a serial stolen-election truther for governor of Virginia, renominated a candidate for governor of Georgia who insists that her last gubernatorial election was stolen from her, and stocked the January 6 committee with stolen-election truthers (including chairman Bennie Thompson, one of multiple current House committee chairs who objected to certifying the 2004 election). President Biden insists on branding the upcoming midterm elections as illegitimate unless Congress passes the Democrats’ voting and election bill, which it won’t pass, while Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer describes American elections as a “rigged game” — an excuse he offered for opposing Electoral Count Act reform.

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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Democrats and their media supporters have been playing a two-faced game ever since last January 6. On the one hand, they say that the Capitol riot and Donald Trump’s broader “Stop the Steal” movement present a unique and continuing threat to our democracy, which requires an emergency footing and the suspension of many of the usual rules of politics. On the other hand, their actions reveal, over and over again, that they view January 6 and Stop the Steal simply as means to obtaining a partisan advantage.

They have not reconsidered any of their prior attacks on the legitimacy of elections; to the contrary, they nominated a serial stolen-election truther for governor of Virginia, renominated a candidate for governor of Georgia who insists that her last gubernatorial election was stolen from her, and stocked the January 6 committee with stolen-election truthers (including chairman Bennie Thompson, one of multiple current House committee chairs who objected to certifying the 2004 election). President Biden insists on branding the upcoming midterm elections as illegitimate unless Congress passes the Democrats’ voting and election bill, which it won’t pass, while Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer describes American elections as a “rigged game” — an excuse he offered for opposing Electoral Count Act reform.