Eliza's original post was the question of "What if the election really was stolen?" Personally, I think she has been the victim of a propaganda campaign by the Republican Party and its supporters, but she may disagree. To me, their election fraud claims seem ludicrous, but then, people's beliefs are shaped largely by where they get their news and by what they have to believe.

One thing that strikes me is the simple craziness of many of the Right's claims. When these claims are investigated, they are found to be without any substance. For a long time, I had a hard time understanding why a national political party would take this tack line.

The following article goes a long way towards explaining this to me: https://progresspond.com/2021/01/21/...ite-supremacy/

One thing that stood out to me in the article was the sentence, referring to the Republican Party's demographics, "They cannot win national office without endorsing fabulist conspiracies, and they cannot win national office if they do.”

Which is, of course, not a good place to be. The Republican Party seems to be losing members and seems to be unable or unwilling to change their platform to be more inclusive. This is making them more desperate. Their backs are to the wall, so to speak. They have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections, and things are just looking worse and worse for them.