The Republican response to an absurd recount in Arizona underscores a threat to democracy
It is still Donald Trump’s party and still scornful of reality
IT WAS SUPPOSED to be the start of the glorious restoration. At the behest of Donald Trump, who has been unable to come to terms with his election loss, Republicans in Arizona announced an unprecedented “audit” of millions of ballots cast in 2020, with the aim of exposing the alleged enormity of Democratic-favouring vote-rigging. Its results would prove massive fraud, the president promised. It would be the first domino to fall, the QAnon-aligned conspiracists in the party pledged. The reality was a let-down, but this seems to have had no effect on the story spun-up by Republicans about voter fraud.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Still stopping the steal”
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