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Democracies don't die from a single stolen election. The remedy is in the courts to determine if the election was stolen and then in the legislature to fix whatever problems allowed it. Convincing people that democracies must be saved by violent revolt is what kills democracy. The true enemy is lawlessness, not the other half of the country.

Fraudulent elections are happening in countries that are, in fact, no longer democracies and have not been for some time.

I'm open to arguments that the U.S. is no longer a functioning democracy, but the ability to still have mostly peaceful transitions of power and for election audits to come back clean reassures me a little bit.



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