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Where Are We Now: Silent Majorities, Loud Departures, And Floated Coups (Part 1)

December 05, 2020 • Conall & Emerson • Episode 20

In this episode, Conall and Emerson discuss the recent 2020 presidential election and the fallout from it. We discuss why former Vice President Biden was able to defeat incumbent President Trump and why Trump has been lying about the election's integrity and launching scores of groundless lawsuits instead of accepting his electoral loss and conceding. We also discuss the greater implications of this for the long term health and integrity for any sort of democratic government in America going forward.

Sources cited and other useful sources:
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals decision, conservative judge categorically rejecting Trump campaign's lies about Pennsylvania's election - https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20417624-document-1
Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's op-ed in USA Today affirming Georgia's election's integrity - https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/11/25/georgia-secretary-of-state-election-integrity-2020-column/6407586002/
Wisconsin Election Commission resource - affirms the integrity of Wisconsin's election - https://elections.wi.gov/node/7241
538 article on social isolation and how it's found to correlate with stronger support for Trump - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/could-social-alienation-among-some-trump-supporters-help-explain-why-polls-underestimated-trump-again/