I should expect that rejecting any election outcome that results in a Democratic win will be part of this delegitimizing of Democrats from now on.
Yep, that is the game plan:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...p-candidates-shows-trump-threat-is-here-stay/
“It isn’t just that Republicans will be expected to pledge fealty to the lost cause of the stolen 2020 election. It’s also that untold numbers of GOP candidates will see it as essential to the practice of Trumpist politics that they vow to actively subvert legitimate election losses by any means necessary.”
One high-profile GOP candidate now playing this ugly Trumpist game is Larry Elder, who is running in a recall election against California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom.….. “The 2020 election, in my opinion, was full of shenanigans,” Elder
also told Fox News. “My fear is they’re going to try that in this election right here and recall.”
A worse example comes from the leading GOP candidate for Senate in Nevada, Adam Laxalt. The former state attorney general’s effort to unseat Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto has
Trump’s endorsement in what will be a hard-fought contest.
This week, Laxalt
flatly declared his campaign will “file lawsuits early” to “secure this election,” as if it’s a foregone conclusion that a loss would be dubious by definition. Worse, Laxalt
vowedto avoid the supposed mistakes of 2020, in which the election was “rigged” and the only failure was that Trump campaign lawsuits “came too late.”