As much as we might like to think that people like Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and other election deniers are complete and utter assclowns, it's also important to remember that given their platforms of influence, they're also a dangerous and ever-present threat to American democracy. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
Source: Gateway Pundit
A new Russian history book for 11th grade students claims former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election “as a result of obvious electoral fraud by the Democratic Party.”
Even the Kremlin knows the 2020 elections were stolen!
Via the UK Times correspondent Marc Bennetts.
via Newsweek:
Images from the history book, which is reportedly used by students in the 11th (graduating) grade, have circulated on social media in recent days. Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent for The Times (U.K.), posted a page from the book on Monday onto his X (formerly Twitter) account, translating that the book said Trump lost the election “as a result of obvious electoral fraud by the Democratic Party.”
Trump and some of his allies are facing criminal charges, accused of attempting to interfere with the results of the 2020 election that President Joe Biden handily won, and Trump’s claims of the election being rigged against him have been widely debunked in courts of law and elsewhere.
Apparently, the Kremlin is more honest than our own Pravda media.
Jim Hoft/Gateway Pundit then went into conspiracy land that up to 13 million votes may have been fraudulent in the 2020 election based on some kookie Rasmussen internet poll. Actual, evidence-based voter fraud turned up around 475 cases out of the tens of millions of votes cast. But this is just par for the course for "the dumbest man on the internet." It's what he does.
Getting back to reality for a minute though, that the Russians want to disrupt American elections and throw results they don't like into doubt is understandable, but why are they putting this conspiracy nonsense into their school textbooks?
Konstantin Sonin, professor at the University of Chicago who frequently writes about Russian politics, with this helpful explainer. Incorporating these ideas into their textbooks is a means to control their population and to underscore that rigged elections are universal, as in their own country.
The "reverse cargo cult" is a staple of authoritarian propaganda. Under the "cargo cult", the locals believe that imitating elections will bring as much prosperity as real elections in democratic countries. Under the "reverse cargo cult", the locals believe that the fact that their own elections are fake means that elections in democracies are fake as well.
And Greene's tweet.
