Donald Trump's Hostage Politics - WSJ Editorial
(This is the WSJ, so the point is to complain about Democratic policies that need to be stopped. Still, satisfying reading).
When Democrats complain that Donald Trump is plotting to suppress votes, they have a point—but fortunately for them, the votes he is plotting to suppress are those of his own supporters.
That was evident in January this year in the two Georgia Senate runoffs. Turnout in Republican strongholds fell because Mr. Trump told his voters the election in November had been stolen and the state’s GOP officials were corrupt. Democrats narrowly won both seats in the conservative state, handing the party unified control of Congress and paving the way for an ideologically unleashed Biden Administration.
Now the former President is threatening aloud that he might repeat this act of electoral sabotage in the next national elections. “If we don’t solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented),” Mr. Trump said in a statement Wednesday, “Republicans will not be voting in ‘22 or ‘24. It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do.”
What’s notable isn’t that Mr. Trump continues to deny his election defeat and push for increasingly futile “audits” that will go nowhere. Mr. Trump will never admit he lost. Democrats have already used Mr. Trump’s election denial against the GOP to great effect in their California gubernatorial recall rout and are now wielding it in what has become a tight Virginia Governor’s race.
Mr. Trump’s escalation is that he is now explicitly tying Republican acceptance of his election fantasy to a threat of electing Democrats as retribution. The message to Republicans is that if they don’t loudly pretend that he won the last election, Mr. Trump will make sure the GOP loses the next one, too.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-hostage-politics-republicans-2020-election-11634249842 (subscription)
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When I first read that Trump said, we will not vote until the fraud is "fixed." I thought, ok..so he means, for as long as possible, no one else can be an elected Republican president but me. lol
I would love to be a fly on the wall in Mitch McConnell's office. 
