OPINION: While some of these Trump candidates who believe the 2020 election was stolen may not win key battleground contests in November, the bigger issue is that Republicans seem only interested in maintaining power by controlling state election systems.
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more to drag Oz over his state residency. And when Oz visited the competing Philly cheesesteak restaurants Pat’s and Geno’s, Fetterman called his opponent’s photo op “a rite of passage for any tourist.”
Ultimately, some of these Trump candidates may not win these key battleground contests. That’s not the point. The bigger picture is the Republicans, who have not offered any policies that appeal to people—and offer little more than human rights violations and state-sponsored violence—care about keeping power. Unwilling to embrace democracy and fair elections, the GOP prefers to steal elections by controlling the levers of power: the running of the election apparatus. This is why you must vote out all Republicans in the midterms.
Democrats under Biden have had their failures along with successes—poor messaging and missed opportunities, getting bogged down in policy papers and an unwillingness to fight Republicans rather than progressives and fully use the power the voters gave them in 2020. Yet, even those who are unhappy with the Democratic Party’s shortcomings must get out and vote in November.
Understand that if you want reparations, control over your own body and the right to marry who you love, voting rights, climate justice legislation and so many other things, none of this will happen without voting out the Republicans in the midterms. Most importantly, if you want future elections, you won’t get anything if you don’t vote and allow a Republican victory. And once you let the GOP in, they will never leave and will stay forever like luggage. As Charlie Kirk said, “we’re not going to give that power back.”
America never was a true multiracial democracy, but if we don’t stop these clowns and comic-book villains, we definitely won’t have one.
David A. Love is a journalist and commentator who writes investigative stories and op-eds on a variety of issues, including politics, social justice, human rights, race, criminal justice and inequality. Love is also an instructor at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, where he trains students in a social justice journalism lab. In addition to his journalism career, Love has worked as an advocate and leader in the nonprofit sector, served as a legislative aide, and as a law clerk to two federal judges. He holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also completed the Joint Programme in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. His portfolio website is davidalove.com.
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