The Threat of Election Denial Is Still Real—and Very Dangerous

February 27, 2023 | Tim Wirth and Tom Rogers | Newsweek

A lot was written after the 2022 midterms of how election deniers promulgating the Big Lie were defeated in the major races, depriving the Republicans of a major victory many had wrongly predicted. Certainly these were results to cheer about. Yet they also led to a great deal of complacency over something that remains the major threat to our democracy: those who would try to overturn the popular will and undo legitimate election results. …

As a nation, we deny the ongoing existence of election denialism at our peril.