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This Baseball Season, Chant “Stop the Count!” When Your Team is Clinging to a Lead
It won’t be divisive because Republicans are already boycotting America’s pastime
You may have heard: Hordes of Republican voters — two out of every three — still actually believe that Donald Trump was robbed of the election because of voter fraud. They still actually think that voting machines made by Dominion somehow flipped votes from Trump to Biden or just didn’t count votes for Donald Trump.
These people are still actually convinced that Democrats rigged the election, only to lose 13 seats in the House of Representatives, fail to gain a majority in the U.S. Senate, and failed to win a new majority in any state legislative election.
These beliefs are so incoherent that it led to prominent Republican politicians demanding that election results be overturned, while also insisting that they should be allowed to stay in Congress because their election, held on the same ballot, was legitimate. It also led to Republican voters in Arizona chanting “count the votes” at the exact same time as Republican voters in Michigan chanted “stop the count.”
