To the editor:<\/p>\n
I have but one question for any potential political candidate: Was the 2020 election stolen from Donald Trump?\u00a0 <\/p>\n
If millions of Americans answer in the affirmative, our democracy is doomed.\u00a0Trump and his minions have been quite successful in sowing doubt around some of our foundational institutions: public health and education, for example, but he has his sights set on destroying the credibility of our elections and if his lies and misinformation convince enough of us (he doesn\u2019t need a majority) that voter fraud is a real problem, our fragile democracy will not hold.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s plan to federalize elections is clearly unconstitutional, but this is certainly but the opening salvo in a careful plan that will be unfolding in the coming months.\u00a0As the FBI raid on the Atlanta elections center shows, the DOJ is under orders to build a case to clearly show there were enough \u201cimproprieties\u201d in the 2020 election to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the result.\u00a0Despite massive evidence to the contrary, Trump has long insisted that mail-in balloting is rife with corruption.\u00a0 He maintains that in blue states illegal aliens are voting in huge numbers, though anyone who has ever worked as an elections volunteer can tell you this is a preposterous claim.\u00a0 Tell lies often enough and gullible people will start to believe them.<\/p>\n
Joe Biden has a distinguished record of public service, but he made a huge blunder in not prosecuting Trump and his allies for their blatant attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power and maintain Trump in office. Arrests should have been made the day Biden was inaugurated.\u00a0 Now the same cast of disgraced characters who mounted the coup attempt in 2020 are hovering around the White House, eager to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, prove the election was stolen and confirm the infallibility of their exalted leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s tell the Trump administration we\u2019re not going to forget what we saw with our own eyes on Jan. 6 and we\u2019re not going to forget what we\u2019re seeing going on right now in Minnesota and across the rest of the country; we\u2019re not going to believe the lies.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
It is a national disgrace that those attempting to undermine our democracy are not being held to account.\u00a0 How do we promote democracy abroad while we allow it to slip away at home?<\/p>\n
Ray Clasen<\/p>\n
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