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> An entire political party has spent an entire mandate actively and vocally claiming the election was stolen

Are you talking about the 2016 election or the 2020 election?



I’m pretty sure you know. Forgive me for not responding further, but your username doesn’t inspire confidence that you’d be willing to engage in an honest exchange of ideas. I hope to be wrong, but experience says that people who feel the need to advertise their tribal affiliation so overtly are seldom open to challenging their personal world view.


I don't know actually, perhaps I didn't follow context closely enough to see which team you affiliated yourself with. Either way that's okay if you aren't capable of standing by what you wrote or arguing in good faith, then my experience tells me that it's a good signal that it's not worth engaging with anyway.


Most likely the 2020 election, which involved the January 6 insurrection and Trump's fake electors plot [1] (which goes beyond falsely claiming that the election was stolen).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot


I don't agree because they were simply talking election denial, so 2016 and 2020 both equally fit. Unfortunately there looks to be a lot of denial and conspiracy theories around 2024 too now, which is very dangerous to democracy.




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