The Election Deniers’ Long Game
PoliticsThe Election Deniers’ Long GameRight-wing activists have slowly taken control of a significant part of America’s local election apparatus. The country isn’t prepared for what they might do.By Toluse OlorunnipaIllustration by The Atlantic. Nearly six years on, they look worse still: The election denialism that inspired Trump’s MAGA loyalists to attack the Capitol has metastasized into an animating feature of Republican Party politics.Trump himself remains at the forefront of this movement.
- ▪PoliticsThe Election Deniers’ Long GameRight-wing activists have slowly taken control of a significant part of America’s local election apparatus.
- ▪The country isn’t prepared for what they might do.By Toluse OlorunnipaIllustration by The Atlantic.
- ▪Nearly six years on, they look worse still: The election denialism that inspired Trump’s MAGA loyalists to attack the Capitol has metastasized into an animating feature of Republican Party politics.Trump himself remains at the forefront of
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PoliticsThe Election Deniers’ Long GameRight-wing activists have slowly taken control of a significant part of America’s local election apparatus. The country isn’t prepared for what they might do.By Toluse OlorunnipaIllustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty.September 10, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave In the anxious days following President Trump’s 2020 election loss—before his supporters stormed the Capitol, before his vengeful return to the White House, before the mass pardons for cop beaters—some Republican figures sought to cast his attempt to overturn the results as nothing more than a coping mechanism.Trump was merely blowing off steam, people close to the president told me and other reporters.
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