What Changed?!?
Seth Barrett Tillman, a law lecturer at the National University of Ireland, dug up an eye-opening Newsweek article from January 18, 2018.
Correcting the Criminal Results of a Previous Election
Currently, Trump supporters who think the election was rigged are being silenced and vilified as delusional for thinking that the results could be overturned and Trump become President again. I’m not saying that could happen, but this article reminds us that many Democrats had a very different attitude when they thought the Mueller probe might prove that Russia rigged the 2016 election for Trump.
The important point is that only three years ago, questioning the validity of the previous presidential election wasn’t treason or insurrection, it was free speech.
The article quotes Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig as saying that if it was proven Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election (spoiler alert: it wasn’t, and he didn’t), both he and Mike Pence should resign or be impeached. That would make then-House Speaker Paul Ryan President, and he should nominate Hillary Clinton, “the person defeated by the treason of his own party, and then step aside, and let her become President.”
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Lessig admitted that there is no “mechanism for correcting the criminal results of the previous election,” and he wasn’t saying this should happen, just that it could.
Only Three Years Ago This Was Free Speech
The important point is that only three years ago, questioning the validity of the previous presidential election wasn’t treason or insurrection, it was free speech. And fantasizing about the current President being forced to step down and be replaced by his former opponent because the election was rigged wasn’t a conspiracy theory so crazy that anyone who even mentioned it had to be censored, monitored and investigated. It was something that Harvard professors openly discussed in mainstream media outlets.
Gee, I wonder what changed in so short a time?
Mike Huckabee is the former governor of Arkansas and longtime conservative commentator on issues in culture and current events. A New York Times best-selling author, he hosts the weekly talk show Huckabee on TBN.
Originally published on MikeHuckabee.com. Reprinted with permission.
