Trump, Berger, and Moore Tee Up "Voter Fraud" as the Reason They'll Lose

Donald Trump has already done it, suggested that if he loses in November, it must be theft.

Tim Moore and Phil Berger

Now, in the wake of the Fourth Circuit's findings about Republican election law rewrites in North Carolina, Phil Berger and Tim Moore are jumping on that bandwagon. Those two Republican leaders in the General Assembly issued a statement about the Fourth Circuit, wondering theatrically if the  Court's intent wasn't "to reopen the door for voter fraud, potentially allowing fellow Democrat politicians like Hillary Clinton and Roy Cooper to steal the election."

Isn't it interesting that these dudes see defeat coming and are already pissed enough to demonize the judicial system itself?

That Berger-Moore comment in an official written response delivered to the press is calculated to destroy the very ability of our democracy to function after an election. If Trump, Berger, and Moore can succeed in convincing 40-some percent of the electorate that the results of an election they may lose are illegitimate, that's a direct assault on the ability of the winners to govern what has been placed in their hands.

In other words, this style of partisanship is pernicious. The "if I lose, it must be theft on the winner's part" is a cancer meant to rot the very legs of government.

On that hysterical, noxious twisting of the public's mind alone, the Republican Party deserves the ash heap of history.