“I think as we all recognize, democracy is more than taking a vote. We’ve had a number of countries take votes quickly fall into disrepair from a democratic standpoint in part because they don’t have the institutions that allow democracy to survive. Attacking the institutions here puts democracy itself in jeopardy, whether it’s our judicial system, our freedom of the press, our intelligence community, the FBI–these things underpin the strength of our democratic republic. So he attacked those along the way, and then, as a final act, attacked election integrity itself. Those things have real consequences.”
That quote is from I Alone Can Fix It by Carol Leonnig and Phillip Rucker. I have two thoughts. First, I’d leave the FBI off the statement. Secondly, I wonder if the Republican Party would be willing to trade Romney for Manchin.
I don't think Utah would send Romney to the Senate if he had a (D) next to his name, though. Funny how he and McCain were the two Republicans who ran against Obama and got crushed, though, as during the Trump years, they were two of the few decent ones to stand up to him.
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