Stolen-election rhetoric and attacks on the legitimacy of our elections, common currency of Democrats for two decades, still have not been shamed out of them by January 6. Witness Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (D., Texas) at an event last month:
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, who’s running for re-election to Congress in the midterm elections, claimed during an event attended by House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., that a June special election in Texas was stolen by Rep. Mayra Flores, R-Texas, and her supporters. The remarks from Gonzalez came during a “vote blue” event at Shotz bar in Brownsville, Texas. . . . “Our democracy is at stake,” Gonzalez claimed. “There’s millions and millions of dollars from outside our region and outside our state that are coming here to try to steal our elections and take away your value and take away the process that we rely on, which is elections. . . . They stole that last election,” Gonzalez claimed. “They spent $3 million to our $250,000, they campaigned for two years, and they still only won by less than one percent. So, the way to turn this around is getting out and vote.”
Surely, Adam Schiff denounced this? Ha ha ha ha ha, of course not. To the contrary, Schiff praised Gonzalez — and the very fine people he hires — for “the work you’re doing to support our Democratic institutions, the infrastructure of our elections, the rule of law . . .” Because when national Democrats say “democracy,” they only mean that their side wins.