This story deserves to be much more widely known:
This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster. “Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group. “But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”
And on January 6th 2021, why were the fascists alone in their attack on the Capitol, Congress, and democracy? Because supporters of democracy knew that a confrontation would certainly become violent, and the President would then declare martial law, arrest his opponents, and refuse to step down…
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/. 6,800 words but worth the read.
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