We should all be concerned about serious problems with our elections, the heart of our democracy. But we can’t fix problems that we refuse to face.
There was no better example of the head-in-the-sand attitude than what was recently demonstrated by Kristen Welker of NBC’s prestigious Meet the Press, as she held forth with House Speaker Mike Johnson in February, regarding, among other topics, the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
In the wake of the Trump administration’s FBI seizure of 2020 Georgia election records, Welker barked at Johnson that raising questions about the validity of the 2020 election is dangerous to our democracy.
Let’s stop right there. Even if the Georgia election turns out to have been spotless (against all indications), is there harm from examining whether it truly was so, especially if many citizens in good faith believe otherwise? In other words, is it a good disposition to be closed-minded about such serious matters? After all, if historians still write about the Andrew Jackson/John Quincy Adams election of 1824, and the Rutherford B. Hayes/Samuel Tilden election of 1876, why can’t we have an open discussion about an election which, rightly or wrongly, occurred only recently, and is considered by many to be riddled with fraud?
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