Republicans have not won a presidential election in this century

[Cyrano]

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Each and every presidential election they "won" since 2000 was stolen.

2000: Five Supreme Court criminals appointed George W Bush to the presidency.

2004: Ohio. Republicans suppressed over 350,000 Democratic votes which would have made John Kerry president.

20016: Key Republican controlled states suppressed votes, "lost votes," and flipped thousands more votes. (And, oh yeah, Russia helped a whole lot.)

So what about 2020? Will they steal another one? The only way to beat them is to turn out in numbers too vast to be denied, twisted, suppressed, or stolen.

The GOP is on the way toward the dustbin of history and they're going to go for the throat in every way possible to slow down their demise.

As ugly as it gets, we are the majority. The future is in our hands. But only if all of us seize the moment. If they steal the upcoming 2020 election, America is over. Another four years of the orange creature will destroy us.

Don't let them steal it. Our country, democracy, and perhaps our very lives are on the line this time around.

(edits were for grammar only)

[Cyrano]

4. ALL of us must turn out and vote

No sitting it out. No voting for a third party candidate. No accepting "you can't vote" at the polls. No buying into social media Republican/Russian propaganda.

Obama won twice because a vast majority of Democrats, of every color, creed, religion or non-religion, showed up. (And in many places in America, that wasn't easy.)

Republicans spent eight years hating the fact that a black man actually won the White House twice. And they will do everything in their power to make sure it never happens again.

There are far more of us than there are of them. If we stay united. If we grit out teeth and fight for our votes to count. If we make sure that every Democrat knows what is at stake. If you have to crawl to a poll 20 miles away, do it.

Be optimistic. We are going to win, and we're going to win big.

We must all become obsessed with beating those who are our sworn enemies; those who want us all to "go back where we came from"; those who don't give a damn if we live or die; those who hate our very existence.

Failing to win big this time around is not an option.

[c-rational]

18. Completely agree.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. So incredibly true.

Nineteen years of my life that I will never get back. But, I did see examples of their unfairness at a local level. As they say, write what you know.

[Iliyah]

3. Not fairly . . .

The curse will be broken.

[Polybius]

5. They didn't win one in the 90's either

It's been a long time since they won one legit. 1988 was the last time.

[Cyrano]

6. Yep, 1988. They did it by stirring up hate with the racist Willie Horton ad.

If you don't know what the Willie Horton ad was, google it. Racial hatred propelled Bush Sr. into the presidency. Racial hatred is the Republican's default fallback tactic.

[Polybius]

11. Oh I know about that racist ad

I'm not sure that was the only reason they won though. That was a mega landslide. I'd like to think that the difference in EV's wasn't all because of racism.

[andym]

17. 1988: a very instructive election: Dukakis was made to appear unpatriotic, robotic, soft on crime...

because he supported the ACLU and didn't support Bush's flag-burning amendment, and because he ignored a debate question about how he would respond to a rapist-murderer attacking his wife. He was also ridiculed for riding in a tank. Lee Atwater claimed he made Willie Horton, Dukakis' running mate (playing to racism and being soft on crime at the same time). There was not much more to that election either other than Bush constantly talking about 1000 points of light (which in turn was ridiculed by SNL).

While Trump is far more stupid than Atwater or Bush, he has a lot of the Atwater spirit in him, so beware!

[Midnight Writer]

15. 1988 election saw the rise of Limbaugh. He sat with the Bush family at the inauguration.

Bush was pushing for flag desecration amendment to the Constitution. At the inaugural, his wife wore an American Flag dress and the amendment was never brought up again.

[KentuckyWoman]

7. The check and balance isn't working.

The 2 party system is supposed to "check" each other. It isn't working.

Oh we do a lot of hand wringing and fussing. But when it comes down to the nitty gritty, they walk away without a price to pay.

Maxine Waters is right.

[Cyrano]

8. They are at war with us.

Time for us to recognize that we're being attacked relentlessly.

Time for us to recognize that we are playing by rules, and they are not.

Time for us to understand the incredible wave of hatred they are directing at us.

Time for us to act accordingly.

Time to do everything possible to salvage our dying democracy.

[KentuckyWoman]

9. Low wages and high profits are much easier without democracy

all the rest is just a divisional tool to destroy a functioning democracy. It is happening all over to world.

We fight about the tweets, we fight about immigration, we fight about justice, we fight about everything else except what is really happening... wealth shifting upward.

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. I've said it 1000 times...they can't win unless they cheat.

edited to add: Unless you live in my state, Alabama.

[DemocraticSocialist8]

12. This is true. Every Republican "victory" post-2000 has been sketchy

If not downright fraudulent. This is why voter suppression is a Top 3 issue if you care about the integrity and legitimacy of American elections. Most just want to pretend people are winning fair and square despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. That’s why the pearl-clutching that took place after Stacey Abrams refused to concede and she called Brian Kemp illegitimate was so problematic because it showed that even when voter suppression is brazen and out in the open...folks will still assume there was no foul play.

[gtar100]

13. And all they have to do is work with ideas that actually help people.

If they focused on helping their constituents, they'd be wildly popular. But apparently that's not in their nature. Corruption is what they do best - opportunistic, self-serving, self-righteous, greedy, bigoted,...just to name a few descriptors of their policies. Must be too hard for them to think about actually helping people.

[BadgerMom]

14. K and R

[ElementaryPenguin]

16. I say this all the time!!

You are absolutely correct!!

[not fooled]

19. Eisenhower

was the last legitimately elected Republican president, as Thom Hartmann argues persuasively:

--Nixon committed treason before the '68 election by conspiring with the North Vietnamese to keep the war going, telling them he would give them a better deal once he was in office. If the war had ended before the election, as Johnson was poised to do, Humphrey would have won in a landslide. Ford became president only after Nixon resigned.

--Reagan committed treason before the '80 election by conspiring with the Iranians to continue holding the hostages, thwarting Carter's efforts and throwing the election. Led to Iran-Contra.

--Bush I as Reagan's VP got into office on Reagan's coattails.

--Bush II got handed the presidency by the Supreme Court.

--Red Don got into office with help from Russians, plus multiple other factors well-covered on DU.

[moondust]

21. Has anyone ever asked Dumbo

or other Republicans what they "think" about the Reagan administration selling U.S. missile technology to the Ayatollah?

Handwritten notes taken by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on 7 December 1985 indicate that Reagan was aware of potential hostage transfers with Iran, as well as the sale of Hawk and TOW missiles to "moderate elements" within that country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

[not fooled]

23. Nonono

no one can ever ask these traitors about any of their actions that wildly contradict current posturing by red don on Iran.

Many examples where these guys are never held to account, e.g. handing the country to an ignorant fool a mere 8 years after chimpy's regime crashed the world economy. Wildly hypocritical but we are supposed to just forget all of it and let the current Dear Leader carry on, as long as they are GOPee.

[moondust]

22. Unrepresentative government.

Republicans don't like majority rule and they've gamed the system in order to undermine it.