In 2000 and in 2016, Democratic presidential candidates Al Gore and Hillary Clinton both won the popular vote, both had legions of supporters who believed they had also rightly won the White House – and both accepted, for the good of the country, that they had lost. In 2020 and ever since, Donald Trump and his supporters have maintained that he won, up to and far past the point of violent insurrection. Host Tish Durkin blasts the craven effort of the GOP to equate the spoken election objections of disappointed Democrats with the physical, functional and anti-constitutional election denial of enraged Republicans from the leadership on down – and the strange willingness of the media to let them get away with this.
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