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A view from the "right" [1]

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Date: 2023-10-24  

I’ll start off by a caveat. I’m not really a Conservative. I’m a (pragmatic) libertarian, who would tend to vote for the Republican candidate when no better option was on the ballot. Some of the readers of this site probably conflate libertarians and conservatives, so it’s easier to just call this a view from the right.

How do you define an election denier? (In other words, how do you decide that a person cares more about getting their way on policy versus supporting democracy?)

First, in no way do I believe that democracy always gets it right. The problem with government isn’t that democracy gets it wrong; it’s that the alternatives are generally even worse. So arguing that the Republicans are right on the issues and therefore denying democracy is acceptable does not work for me.

One way to determine if a House member is an election denier is to look at their voting record and actions. Specifically, there are two recent actions they could take which can be used to label someone as an enemy of democracy. Number one, did they reject the electoral votes of one or more states? Number two, did they sign the amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to reject the election results?

There were eight Republicans running for Speaker as of this morning. (This excludes the ones who have already tried and failed to win the nomination.) Six of them tried to disenfranchise the results from one or more states. Six of them signed the amicus brief.

No, it’s not the same six candidates that voted for both. All eight were on the antidemocracy side of at least of the the two. Four were antidemocracy on one of the two, while four were on the antidemocracy side twice.

I disagree with many of the Democratic Party policies. But I find them the lesser of two evils when compared to the Republican Party’s current antidemocracy stance. (Yes, I’m sure that some Republicans actually still support democracy. But it doesn’t seem like the Republican mob will allow them to voice those views, much less get the necessary support to run.)_

November 2045 is a ways into the future. I can’t predict what I’ll be doing them, assume we have an election. But unless there’s a massive sea change in the Republican Party, it doesn’t look like I’ll be voting for any Republican.

Actually, one road for a Republican to gain my vote would be if they denounced the actions of the election deniers in the Republican Party. But given the strength of the MAGA wing, I doubt that any Republican who denounced the election deniers would survive to get onto the ballot.

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