Trump Supporters came over to the early voting site to protest while people are in line to Vote in FairFax Virginia. #EarlyVoting pic.twitter.com/Lkkl4o2aAc
— Anthony Tilghman (@AnthonyTilghman) September 19, 2020
However, this isn't:
As you can see here they are blocking the entrance to the voting site. #EarlyVoting #VA #FairFax pic.twitter.com/KJ6fbLdP3G
— Anthony Tilghman (@AnthonyTilghman) September 19, 2020
The blockade was lifted:
If this was yesterday when the line was around the corner this would have been tragic.
— Anthony Tilghman (@AnthonyTilghman) September 19, 2020
But think about what you're watching here:
People carrying Trump swag are trying to stop fellow citizens from voting. Not antifa. Not BLM. (Neither of which is affiliated with the Biden-Harris campaign, BTW.) People ostentatiously acting in Trump’s name, interfering with legal voting.
— Betty Cracker 🐊 (@bettycrackerfl) September 19, 2020
I know that Trumpers believe that you can't trust mail ballots, but these are flesh-and-blood voters showing up to a polling place, where poll workers will verify their credentials for voting. (There are also mail voting safeguards, of course.)
I believe Trumpers will attack the voting process all over the country. I believe they'll intimidate voters at other polling places in Democratic-leaning areas. I think they'll vandalize ballot drop-off boxes. And this is in addition to the inevitable "ballot security" efforts from the Republican Party that will probably involve armed off-duty cops intimidating non-white voters at the polls, a tactic used in 1981 by the successful Roger Stone-led campaign for New Jersey's GOP gubernatorial candidate, Tom Kean, and subsequently declared illegal in a court settlement that expired very recently.
I see no evidence that Trumpers care about democracy -- they care about winning, by any means necessary. They believe that every Democratic vote is illegitimate. They'll do whatever they can get away with.
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