Some don’t think you should have the right to question our “sacred” elections:
Rasmussen asked: “Some members of Trump’s first administration who questioned the integrity of the 2020 election results have faced legal punishment. Do you believe that people who questioned the integrity of the 2020 election should be punished?”
Thirty-six percent (36%) of Likely Voters believe that people who questioned the integrity of the 2020 election should be punished, while 48% are against such punishment and 16% are not sure. Among Democrats, however, those numbers are reversed – 48% in favor of punishment and 36% opposed.
Putting aside the fact that those who question the integrity of the 2020 election results are in all probability correct (which doesn’t necessarily mean that Trump “really” won the election), the fact that a near-majority of Democrats think you should be punished for disagreeing with them about that election is pretty shocking.
This is the continuation of a trend. On the Left, there’s no true belief in inviolable rights. (Remember Biden saying “No amendment is absolute” — ?) When the Left seemingly defends a Constitutionally guaranteed right, the stance is purely tactical: i.e., it supports some desideratum of the Left. But note how often a right the Left has guarded zealously for its own use is one it refuses to extend to the Right.
Among the most illuminating things a national potentate has said in recent years is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s analogizing of “democracy” to a train: Once you’ve reached your desired stop, you get off. Erdogan, as we all know, is an Islamist hardliner. His “desired stop” is nationwide Islamic law. When he gets his nation to that terminus, “democracy,” whatever he means by it, will have lost its usefulness in his eyes, and he’ll “get off.”
Never imagine that the Left has any convictions it would not discard for tactical reasons. Their pole star is unbounded, absolute power in perpetuity. Should they ever get there, they won’t just “get off the train;” they’ll blow it to flinders.
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At this point isn’t Erdogan undisputed Dictator of Turkey?
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“Thirty-six percent (36%) of Likely Voters believe that people who questioned the integrity of the 2020 election should be punished…”
But the same people think it fine and dandy, required actually, to “question” the integrity of the 2016 and 2024 elections…