Remember when Republicans thought the 1/6 insurrection was a bad thing?
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That was awesome.
Sen. JD Vance on Sunday defended Donald Trump as the former president faces a litany of legal issues amid his comeback campaign for the White House.
In a contentious interview with ABC News “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos, Vance — a onetime Trump critic — also doubled down on his views of the 2020 election, saying the results shouldn’t have been immediately certified, and he went on to suggest Trump should ignore “illegitimate” U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
Vance, an Ohio Republican who has been floated in the media as a potential running mate for Trump, was asked by Stephanopoulos if he would have certified the 2020 election results as vice president, as required by the Constitution and as then-Vice President Mike Pence did.
Vance called it a “ridiculous question” and claimed Stephanopoulos was “obsessed with talking about this” but went on to say he would have liked to see the certification of the 2020 election handled differently.
“Do I think there were problems in 2020? Yes, I do,” he said citing a list of issues, including social media restrictions on some content about Hunter Biden and changes in state election laws to accommodate for health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there,” he continued. “That is the legitimate way to deal with an election that a lot of folks, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020. I think that’s what we should have done.”
The Constitution makes no such provisions for this. There has been no confirmed evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 race, and the results were affirmed by local officials across the country, including many Republicans.
Vance is no doubt fantasizing about the VP slot. The key thing here is that what he’s saying is soon going to be the mandatory position for all Republicans, to the extent it isn’t already.
How any of this is different in any respect from an authoritarian cult is becoming increasingly difficult to say, although I trust our elite media remain up to the task.