>>12828983 NYPost finally going there: Why are Democrats so scared of Donald Trump when they just defeated him?
From the article, reasons why Dems are freaked. IMO one more reason why Dems are trying to destroy POTUS, is because if their seriously deceived voters really find how much voter fraud there is, the gig will be up
Yet Democrats have made quite plain that the purpose of this after-hours impeachment of a former president is to ensure Trump doesn’t rise from the political grave and run again in four years.
Are they crazy? Well, maybe not entirely.
As political pollster Rasmussen tweeted Wednesday, a lot of voters agree with Trump that the election process in America is deeply flawed: “Almost half of ALL VOTERS are concerned about US election integrity: – President Trump left office w/ a job approval of 51%. – 47% of ALL VOTERS believe there was election fraud in Nov 2020. – 45% of ALL VOTERS want a debate on election integrity.”
(And yes, despite all the media attacks and the hysteria over the Capitol invasion, Trump’s final approval rating in the Rasmussen daily tracking poll was 51 percent. Meanwhile, Biden’s first-day approval rating in the same poll was 48 percent.)
The political class keeps trying to treat Trump’s complaints about American elections as something beyond the pale, so out of order that simply making those charges constitutes an impeachable offense, and maybe some kind of “incitement.” But nearly half of voters agree with Trump that there’s a problem.
Prior to the election, US media, including such large organs as The New York Times and USA Today, were filled with concerns about electronic voting machines and fraud. In a December 2019 letter to voting-machine maker Dominion Voting Systems, Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Amy Klobuchar and Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan warned about machines “switching votes” and other problems that “threaten the integrity of our election.” Does anyone doubt that if Trump had won, Democrats would be screaming fraud, as they did in 2001, 2004 and especially 2016?
There are two lessons here: One, Democrats aren’t nearly as secure as they pretend. In many ways, their actions reek of weakness and fear, not strength and security. No matter how they bluster, they’re afraid that Donald Trump, like some horror-movie monster, will return from the grave for a sequel. And that’s a movie they don’t want to see, because they fear Trump represents the views of enough Americans to pose a genuine threat.
Two, the mere existence of concerns about election integrity by a near-majority of Americans, however justified, is a disaster. In a democracy, losers have to accept that the winners won fair and square. But for that to happen the losers have to believe the system is fair. Most don’t.
A normal, secure, sensible Congress would be moving to make sure voting is trustworthy, installing safeguards to reassure those with doubts. But we don’t have a normal, secure, sensible Congress. That’s too bad for everybody.