American Thinker by Thomas Lifson 1/18/2021
Leftists successfully persecuting those who questioned election results, aiming to destroy careers
After 4 years of Democrats claiming Trump’s election was illegitimate based on a phony charge of Russian collusion, suddenly, questioning a presidential election is taboo. The Democrat Media Complex obviously think that the public either shares a metastasizing case of TDS, or else has no medium-term memory.
Despite the absurdity of persecuting people for the First Amendment right to express doubts, it is not just Democrats who are warning Republicans to shut up and get with the program. Pam Key of Breitbart:
Republican strategist Karl Rove said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday†that President Donald Trump will be convicted in the Senate with Republicans voting for impeachment if his defense is there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Strictly speaking, that’s a prediction, not a threat. But Rove, with all his baggage, speaks for a notable segment of the GOP establishment. If his second impeachment ever comes to trial in the Senate, Trump does have plenty of other grounds for defense on the basis of his speech containing no incitement as defined by legal precedent, on the basis that reportedly the FBI has evidence of advance planning and warned of violence, negating the notion that the felonious demonstrators were motivated by his words, and on the on-the-record words of many Democrats that were far more inciteful of violence (of the BLM and Antifa sort) than anything he said.
Firebrand House radical Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants Senators Hawley and Cruz to either resign or be expelled from the Senate, something highly unlikely to come to pass, but laying down a marker for future reference. Her House colleague Cori Bush wants to expel members of her own legislative body:
More:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/leftists_successfully_persecuting_those_who_questioned_election_results_aiming_to_destroy_careers.html
