US politics is getting very strange. HERE . We see a minority of republican voters believe in Qanon and a majority believe that the last election was lost by illegal voting or election rigging.
It is pretty easy to dismiss these findings as republicans voters are simply morons. However it means you miss the larger picture of republicans striving to make voting harder to do. Why have so many caved to Trump since the Insurrection. It must be because he controls the base. Simply observe what has happened to a true conservatize like Liz Cheney.
Trump besides being obese, stupid, lazy etc is a populist. A lot of his policies were left wing. ( See Here) He is not a supporter of democracy. Populists never are usually because they never get the largest proportion of votes.
Are the Republicans therefore heading down towards an anti-democratic USA ? Probably. That is what suppressing the vote is all about. Are they about questioning every election now. Probably again however it appears their major aim is simply to produce a modern version of rotten boroughs.
When Trump eventually retires from US polity we shall see if this is a temporary or permanent problem. It still lays the seeds of civil unrest because people will not accept decisions by politicians whom they know are illegimate.
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