Elections·Severity 2 — Notable
Trump Pushes Out Remaining Members of Bipartisan Election Commission Ahead of Midterms
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Voices on this issue
Independent voices from different starting points, on the record about this kind of action. The framework grades behavior, not party — these quotes come from people who would say the same thing under any administration.
From the right
“The first job of an opposition party in a free country is to win elections fairly. The first job of a governing party is to lose them gracefully when the time comes. Both are non-negotiable.”
Mona Charen
Conservative columnist; author of 'Sex Matters' and former speechwriter in the Reagan administration.
From Charen's essay 'What Are We Conserving?' The Bulwark, 'What Are We Conserving?'