Just because someone repeats a lie a thousand times doesn’t make it any truer. It does become more familiar, and comes to seem like it must be true. And authoritarians all over the world have used this technique to convince their followers not to believe their eyes or use their common sense. The bigger the lie, the better.
Remember that Donald Trump kept saying before the 2016 election that it was rigged. But there was not a peep about it being rigged when he won. Though he lost the popular vote by 3 million votes, he printed up maps with the Electoral College results in red and blue and handed them out like candy.
Of course, when Biden won the popular vote by 7 million and the Electoral College vote in 2020 by the very same margin previously for Trump, he called it rigged and tried to overturn the results of the election in multiple ways, including inciting the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol by his supporters and doing almost nothing to stop them.
Over and over, he repeated the Big Lie. He bullied most of his supporters in Congress to go along with it. Most of those who stood up to him in the Republican Party were ousted fairly quickly or in their next primary. A few brave souls, like our Dan Newhouse, voted to impeach but have slunk back to endorsing the criminal Trump.
They now all parrot the Big Lie that the election was stolen, as usual without evidence. Like Rudy Giuliani told Arizona’s Rusty Bowers when he was trying to get him to replace the real slate of electors with fake ones, “We’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence.” That was way back when the Republicans lost more than 60 of the court cases contesting the election results.
They still have no evidence. Now Trump has just stated that he had every right to interfere in the election. And he is already claiming that the election would be rigged if he doesn’t win.
Again, people, believe your eyes and use your common sense.
It’s not a partisan choice. Stop Trump and Project 2025: Vote for Harris/Walz for President/Vice-President; vote for Democrats up and down the ballot.