Karl Rove, formally known as Bush's Brain, used the Wall Street Journal to equate some Democratic objections during the 2004 election and 2005 certification to the actual criminal attempt to overthrow a duly elected government in 2021 by Trump, his supporters, staffers and Republican members of Congress.
Rove, tries to present himself these days as a garden-variety Republican not affiliated with MAGA, but used their playbook trying to give cover to Trump and his criminal sedition enterprise.
In Rove's WSJ piece, he blamed the Democrats for being election deniers first.
As if that matters one iota even if it were true. It's not.
This is how Republicans defend the indefensible and give aid and comfort to a failed coup attempt of the federal government by Trump.
"Democrats Were the First Election Deniers"
Among the more grating parts (and there were many) of President Biden’s Independence Hall speech last week were his repeated references to election deniers. “Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election: either they win or they are cheated,” he thundered. “I will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost.”
