America’s battle over election laws
The conflict over democracy has escalated since Donald Trump’s exit from the White House
AFTER THE Republicans lost the presidential election in 2012, a period of gloomy introspection set in. The party commissioned an excoriating report. “Devastatingly, we have lost the ability to be persuasive with, or welcoming to, those who don’t agree with us,” it declared. The lesson the Republican Party learned from 2020 is different. There has been no comparable period of inquiry. Instead, the party has found another culprit for its disappointments—widespread election fraud—that it is now committed to rooting out.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Heads we win, tails you cheated”
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March 13th 2021- America’s battle over election laws
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