Leonard Pitts: 'On one hand, there is great relief that they are not poking at the tottering Jenga tower of American democracy. On the other hand, the failure to do so suggests these people never believed their own hogwash. It’s a clarifying realization.'
Kari Lake, Arizona's Republican gubernatorial candidate, embraces Donald Trump at his rally in Mesa, Ariz., on Oct 9, 2022.As you doubtless recall, many of us regarded last week’s midterm election with existential dread. The path from there to the end of American democracy seemed all too easy to chart, what with election deniers campaigning for offices that would have put them in charge of voting and ballot counting in battleground states.
The fear had been that election deniers would not take No for an answer, that this assemblage of the unhinged who claimed the 2020 election was “rigged” would refuse to accept their own defeats, instead issuing baseless claims of cheating and conspiracy. Which would only further destabilize a nation that is, at this point, about as solid as a Jenga tower on the San Andreas Fault.
On the one hand, there is great relief that they are not poking at the tottering Jenga tower of American democracy. On the other hand, the failure to do so suggests these people never believed their own hogwash. It’s a clarifying realization. Instead of making that claim, though, they have largely chosen to quietly accept defeat -- just like sane people would. Again, one is glad to see it. Paradoxically, one is also infuriated. Because it strongly suggests all that garbage about stolen elections and finding the “truth” was never more than a way of rousing the rabble in a calculated pursuit of power.
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