Dear Friend,

Joe Biden is the president-elect because he won a clear and decisive victory and added Donald Trump’s name to the short list of second-term losers that includes, among others, Martin Van Buren, Herbert Hoover, and Jimmy Carter. Everyone knows that being a loser doesn’t sit well with The Donald, but why is it that Republican officials are joining Trump’s efforts to overturn reality?

The New Republic’s Alex Shephard reminds us that “the GOP’s anti-democratic ideology long preceded Trump—indeed, it paved the way for him,” and the press “has been unwilling to acknowledge this fact, instead depicting the ongoing crisis over the election’s results as a purely Trumpian phenomenon.”

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As an example, Shephard points out that blaming Trump “ignores the Herculean efforts to suppress voters, particularly people of color, that have become the focal point of the GOP’s electoral efforts—efforts that will certainly increase in the future, thanks to the false allegations of fraud being perpetrated by nearly every Republican official.”

Shephard warns that Republicans will “block the Biden administration at every turn, all while casting themselves as protectors of election integrity and fierce believers in fiscal responsibility. The long shadow that Trump will cast may very well make all of this easier—at least these Republicans are not Trump! What the Beltway press still hasn’t figured out is that is exactly what they are.”

This postelection period is the perfect time to restore our faith in democracy by following writers like Alex Shephard and the best investigative reporters, opinion writers, and cultural critics in America. 

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Sincerely,

Kerrie Gillis, publisher

Read Alex Shephard’s The Media Finally Figured Out Trump. Now Do the GOP.