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Liberal TIME Magazine redefines ‘election denier’ to protect new election-denying Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries

Liberal TIME Magazine redefines 'election denier' to protect new election-denying Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries
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In an effort to shield Democrats from being nicknamed “election denier,” TIME Magazine jumped at the chance to take one for the team by writing a piece claiming that new House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries has certainly denied election outcomes in the past, but that in no way makes him an election denier.

No, being an “election denier” is reserved exclusively for conservatives and those who challenged the voting integrity of the 2020 election – and only that election.

What kicked off this bout of justified, liberal mental gymnastics was a recent tweet from the RNC, posted when it was confirmed that far-left Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Rep. Nancy Pelosi would succeed as House Democrat Leader.

“BREAKING: Election Denier Hakeem Jeffries has just been elected as the new leader of the House Democrats,” the RNC had posted over screenshots from as far back as 2018 showing Jeffries repeatedly denying elections.

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Election Denial Juxtaposition

TIME wrote: “In tweets, news interviews and House hearings, Jeffries called to question the legitimacy of Trump’s election over Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 race, accusing Trump of collaborating with Russia to win the election.”

They also added that the 2019 special counsel investigation “did not find sufficient evidence that Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia.”

Right there, author Jasmine Aguilera doesn’t deny that Jeffries himself denied that Trump was the legitimately elected president, going so far as to repeatedly call him “illegitimate.” Given that, you’d think it would be difficult to prove someone isn’t an election denier when you’ve already firmly demonstrated that they denied the election results.

This is where things get silly.

Aguilera argues that since the 2020 election, the term “election denier” doesn’t just mean someone who denies elections.

No, she states that the “phrase has been associated with Republicans claiming the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, claiming without evidence that there was fraud in 2020 voting, and casting doubt on safe voting systems — claims that led to the deadly January 6, 2021 riots at the Capitol.”

Yes of course. That’s one accomplished fact: the liberal media insists it is, flooding the airwaves with it. Jeffries can’t be an election denier because he’s a Democrat. The definition of the term has magically changed and we all have to accept that now.

“Calling Jeffries an ‘election denier,'” she continues, “is misleading and confuses several things.” No, actually it’s not misleading at all.

You can’t just change the definitions if they get awkward – or in this case downright embarrassing. This used to be an accepted fact of life, but now we play by the rules of 1984 where words can change meaning to keep the party going.

Aguilera tries to emphasize this point by quoting Rachel Orey, an associate director of the Elections Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, who had stated that “casting undue doubt about the outcome of an election is irresponsible when one party does it, but I think it’s important to remember that the culture around pre-2020 elections was very different.”

Again, an election denier is an election denier, except when the Democrats deny elections. Confused? I certainly am, especially with Orey’s claim that things were just magically different before 2020.

Am I the only one who remembers four years Democrats are calling Trump impeachment based solely on debunked Russian collusion hoax?

I’m certainly old enough to remember that election-denying Democrats didn’t begin (and sadly won’t end) with Donald Trump.

Democrats — including former presidents — have denied every election the Republicans have won since the year 2000.

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A democratic tradition

Election denial is as much a part of the Democratic Party as slavery and taxpayer funding of abortion. This is not ancient history either.

Former Vice President Al Gore, Presidents Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, and former Congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz were all vocal election deniers in 2000, claiming that Republican George W. Bush stole the election .

In 2004, the Democrats attempted to do exactly the same thing again, with Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Shiela Jackson Lee, and even Democrat candidate John Kerry attempting to paint the 2004 election result as illegitimate.

And of course we all know that the Democrats are denying the 2016 election.

This dangerous attempt by TIME to have a writer claim that we can change very basic definitions based on a very open political narrative is not only dangerous to public discourse, it is an outright threat to our democracy.

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