David Pakman
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is that they seem way more willing to test boundaries that they weren't willing to test before.
And you might say, well, they shouldn't really be willing to test that because, look, people have been indicted for their role in those fake slates of electors in 2020.
Yes, but the people in charge are fine.
Local officials have been indicted, but Trump wasn't.
National elected officials weren't.
So, of course, they're incentivized to go.
How far can we go?
What can we get away with this time?
And so what they've done is a sort of shift of the Overton window.
where ideas around elections that used to be fringe or unthinkable, they've pulled them into this totally fabricated mainstream.
And they're talking about the need to do a lot of this stuff.
They talk about it in hearings.
You listen to Republicans in hearings and they go, here's the stuff we've got to do because of our unsafe election systems in interviews and media.
They talk about it.
And so all of it together.
makes it easier for people to accept.
This is necessary.
This is OK.
We should let them do it.
Now, no individual action purging some voter rolls alone won't determine election outcomes.