Trump’s merry band of election deniers lost a lot of races — but not nearly enough of them.
It was heartening to see that on Nov. 14, a bipartisan group of secretaries of state and some who are soon to be sworn in as secretary of state gathered together for ato express its commitment to democracy. The group included Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican who famously resisted Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in his state, and Adrian Fontes, the Democrat who’s now Arizona’s secretary of state-elect.
We may be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but don’t gaslight yourself into believing the threat posed to our democracy by the MAGA wing of the GOP is over. Days before the election, President Biden raised alarm bells about the MAGA election deniers on the ballot. He said, “.” Well, Americans answered by overwhelmingly defeating Trump’s allies who embraced his election lies in key statewide races. But as Biden warned, “We can’t take democracy for granted any longer.
That message must stay with us into 2024 and beyond because, as Trump’s 2024 announcement reminds us, the threats posed by MAGA to our democracy are still very much alive.
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