Chuck DarwinTrump-era intimidation has had an impact.
Trump’s quest to overturn the election was built upon an attempt to 🔹manufacture legitimacy🔹— something to which the evidence in Trump’s indictments has repeatedly pointed.
Republicans didn’t really echo Trump’s bizarre electoral fraud claims, but they did offer a watered-down version of the argument in the service of giving him backup.

By even pretending this was a serious effort, people became inflamed.
And to this day, 🔺as many as 7 in 10 Republicans falsely believe the 2020 election was illegitimate🔺, which is something with untold consequences for our democracy.
It’s completely valid to posit that the 👉fear these Republicans have cited their colleagues feeling led them to legitimize Trump’s efforts, which continues to reverberate in our body politic.
#intimidation #thugs #FacistMAGA #authoritarianism
