2020 Election Quotes

“He had developed a deep disdain of Donald Trump, whom he considered a con man, but he wasn’t impressed by Joe Biden. “When he was vice president, I went to lunch with him in San Francisco where he droned on for an hour and was boring as hell, like one of those dolls where you pull the string and it just says the same mindless phrases over and over.” Nonetheless, he says he would have voted for Biden in 2020, but he decided that going to the polls in California, where he was then registered, was a waste of time because it was not a contested state.”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“one consequence of the fact that our popular historical understanding erases roughly 1870 to 1932 from public memory is that many Americans have a distinctly warped view of how resilient american democracy actually is

(11/12/2020 on Twitter)”
― Jamelle Bouie

“The whole nature of how ppl respond to this coup would change if ppl, knew the full history of Reconstruction--and learned it as "white identity based mobs regularly overturned elections whenever a Black person or someone perceived as a Black ally was elected"

(12/12/2020 on Twitter)”
― Kaitlyn Greenidge

“Yesterday's assault on the Capitol was an attack on multiracial American democracy, a fragile experiment younger than most US senators.

(1/7/2021)”
― Adam Serwer

“Trump would have preferred not to use violence, but his tactic of poisoning the channels of public information wasn't getting the job done.”
― Michael Corthell

“Thirdly, state and federal judges, including the Supreme Court, refused to hear the over fifty cases that were filed claiming evidence of voter and ballot fraud. All of these cases, except one, were dismissed on technicalities which meant that the evidence was not heard in its proper venue, a courtroom, where it might have been vetted either way.”
― Charles Moscowitz, Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism

“The Supreme Court refused to hear the case of Texas vs Pennsylvania, a case in which Texas claimed that by unlawfully passing election laws, without the opportunity for the people of Pennsylvania to express their will through their legislative representatives, Pennsylvania had compromised the integrity of the voters of Texas by interfering in the election.”
― Charles Moscowitz, Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism

“This, effectively, constituted a soft coupd’état.”
― Charles Moscowitz, Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism

“There was no reason why the hearings over the 7 contested states could not have proceeded normally and the states could not have thus had their constitutionally mandated time allotted to publicly present and debate the causes of their respective election contestation. Instead, the process was cancelled and those who sought their constitutional guarantees to present their grievances were silenced and accused of crimes.”
― Charles Moscowitz, Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism

“The 2020 election was the most secure election in our nation's history. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar or grossly misinformed.”
― Terry Hurlbut

“Later, some of his supporters decide that Antifa orchestrated
the whole thing. It’s as if Antifa, probably taking advantage of a
group-discount rate at the MAGA store, suddenly show up decked out
in all this crap, I mean, merchandise, and duped the poor, pathetic
Make America Great Again crowd. Sometimes reality is an orphan in the valley of the true believers.”
― Gary J. Floyd, Barbarians in the Halls of Power

“Q: What political cliches should be retired after this election?

A: That the Democratic Party is hostile to people of faith”
― Eugene Scott

“People were upset about Trump's win in 2016 because he ran a campaign promising to implement policies that targeted racial and ethnic minorities with state violence (and he did) not simply because he was mean or rude. In no sense is Biden's campaign comparable. Sorry!

Biden won't be banning Christians, arbitrarily revoking the status of white immigrants here because of natural disasters, trying to sell off white populated parts of the country or encouraging police brutality against white people. Your disappointment is not oppression.

(11/9/2020 on Twitter)”
― Adam Serwer

“I hope people realize that the same Republicans who are refusing to acknowledge the results of our elections also champion disastrous foreign policy claiming they're "bringing democracy" to other nations.

(11/10/2020)”
― Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“This is what happens when one group of Americans are taught generationally to believe they are the sole, true owners of a country their ancestors seized from the indigenous and reaped via the blood and toil of others they never viewed as fully human.

(1/6/2021 on Twitter)”
― Joy-Ann Reid

“We must overthrow the election & support the Trump dictatorship! -1/2 of Republicans

No, that's going too far! We must stick to disenfranchising Black people, gerrymandering districts, installing as many far right judges as possible & ignoring the will of voters! -the other 1/2

(1/6/2021 on Twitter)”
― Bree Newsome Bass

“Amazing how quickly those thin blue line flags turned into weapons against the police, almost like the only true ideological commitment is to white supremacy & literally nothing else

(1/6/2021 on Twitter)”
― Bree Newsome Bass

“History will judge them!' says the country with thousands of statues and memorials to Confederates

(1/7/2021 on Twitter)”
― Kaitlyn Greenidge

“Before Trump, conservatives seeking to appeal to Latinos typically embraced the politics of conservative multiculturalism. Politicians such as George W. Bush reached out to Latino voters by showing a familiarity with their language and history, emphasizing the values of diversity and inclusion. Depicting Latinos as a distinct and valuable part of America’s democratic mosaic, conservative multiculturalism connected Latino culture to Republican values, emphasizing conservative approaches to faith, patriotism and the traditional family.

Trump, by contrast, knows nothing of the history of Latinos in the United States and rarely even pretends to find value in Latinos’ distinct identities. Rather than offering his non-White voters recognition, Trump has offered them multiracial whiteness.”
― Cristina Beltrán

“On the morning of January 6th, President Donald Trump's intention was to remain the President of the United States despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his Constitutional obligation to relinquish power.”
― Liz Cheney, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning