"Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result. “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation."
The narrative here is that this was a conspiracy of protection. Benevolent people working together to make sure democracy wasn't stolen and to prevent voter suppression. Yet the people who were protected were those accused if suppression, intimidation and fraud. What was denied wasn't anything nefarious, but was, instead, the consideration of evidence, the request for audits and transparency and relief after harassment and intimidation. What Trump wanted thrown out were ballots accepted in violation of the law. The author here portrays last minute law changes as noble measures, designed to save us from Trump. But in doing so, admits that the pretense that laws were changed to accommodate voters because of things like Covid was, in fact, pretense and that those opposed to Trump changed laws to keep Trump from being elected. The fact that they had to change these laws to do it and that even they admit that Biden’s win wouldn't have happened without this kind of conspiracy says everything about who these people are and what they actually think of democracy.
Unreal.
