What is going on in Wisconsin and Michigan should surprise no one who has watched the modern GOP evolve into what is fundamentally an un-American party. The GOP has basically decided that elections only count when their candidate wins, and if fraud happens to keep a Republican in office, so be it. Their concern for electoral fraud extends as far as their own electoral gains. They have gerrymandered Wisconsin so profoundly that Democrats won 190,000 more votes in state assembly elections and Republicans wound up with a super-majority of seats.
If American democracy - such as it is - depends on an accurate counting of votes in order to determine whom the people desire to govern them, then the GOP can safely be described as a party that no longer believes this. They want to rule, and if that includes turning a blind eye to Russian interference in our elections, then they will do that. Even if it includes elevating literally the worst person in our nation's history to the highest office in the land and then protecting him from legitimate consequences...
How can we describe the GOP as anything but an authoritarian party in the service of plutocrats and white nationalists?
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