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America is amusing itself to death and hack politicians are taking advantage [1]
['More From Author', 'October', 'David Dewitt']
Date: 2022-10-27
LaRose isn’t dumb, on either side of the spectrum. He knows, or well should know, the 2020 Election wasn’t stolen. But he also knows that a lot of the folks he’s talking to on the campaign trail are telling him they believe it was.
LaRose isn’t a strong enough man ethically to tell them the truth, so he validates their fears and takes political advantage of them, giving cover to dangerous election denialism and its violent rhetoric while putting his own political career ambitions first.
This is a consummate politician way of handling things: Validate the crank and manipulated fringe base by repackaging functions the office already performs, point to the widely agreed fact that indeed elections must have integrity, and take a victory lap.
What he can not bring himself to do is to clearly call attempts to subvert American democracy with false conspiracy theories what they are: Unpatriotic and anti-American.
LaRose can’t even bring himself to disavow the conspiracy theories, much less acknowledge their ultimate danger. Instead he just walks his line and winks at them.
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