The Big Lie Will be the End of Our Republic as We Know It

If we don’t fight back against it with everything we have, the Big Lie will be the end of America as we know it.

Dr. Thomas J. West III
Reluctant Moderation
5 min readJun 2, 2021

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At the risk of sounding alarmist, I think at this point it’s pretty safe to say that the Big Lie — that the 2020 election was rife with fraud and that it was somehow stolen from Donald Trump — could very well be the poison that finally causes our fragile republic to collapse from within.

Don’t believe me? Well, look at the evidence. The “recount” currently ongoing in Arizona is, to put it bluntly, a bit of a clusterfuck, with almost no quality control or appropriate oversight. The company in charge, laughably called Cyber Ninjas, is pretty upfront about the fact that they don’t have any sort of qualifications to be doing what they are doing, and that their sole mission is to sow as much doubt about the election as possible.

Meanwhile, you have the likes of Mike Flynn saying that the United States should have a coup like Myanmar in order to return the “rightful” president to power, and Sidney Powell — the lawyer who was so nutty even Trump tried to distance himself from her — has argued that the former president could be reinstated by the end of the summer. Trump himself seems to be running with this latter…

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Dr. Thomas J. West III
Reluctant Moderation

Ph.D. in English | Film and TV geek | Lover of fantasy and history | Full-time writer | Feminist and queer | Liberal scold and gadfly