They deserve shame
Former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli is generally credited with the well-known saying that “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.” Your recent correspondent from Horseshoe Bend offers cherry-picked statistics from the 2020 presidential election results in key battleground states as proof that the results were bogus. This attempt to take a known fact and from it derive an unrelated conclusion is known as a fallacy.
The total voter turnout in 2020 was the largest in U.S. history. Joe Biden’s margin of victory over Donald Trump was over 7 million votes. Women in suburban areas in key battleground states turned out heavily for Biden over Trump. The numbers prove a simple fact: Biden handily defeated Trump in a free and fair election. No evidence of widespread voter fraud was ever upheld in the dozens of lawsuits and spurious challenges raised by a rabid cohort of Trump loyalists.
2020 was a race like no other. Our national health was literally at stake. The choice was stark. An impeached, divisive, ill-prepared, untruthful narcissist who had fooled the voters into electing him in 2016, but who had quickly proven to be unfit for office, was running against an exceptionally experienced, decent man who promised to try and reunite the American people and help heal the racial divide that Trump was fostering.
Instead of accepting the results of this free and fair election, the sitting president launched a disgraceful and unprecedented campaign to overturn them and thwart the will of the American people. That campaign continues with the help of Republican bootlicks and sycophants who shamefully seek Trump’s endorsement to curry favor with his followers.
Congressman Rick Crawford is exceptionally guilty for voting against certifying the election results on Jan. 6, 2021, but every other Republican candidate for a major political office in Arkansas claimed fealty to the disgraced former president in their political ads. They all share the shame and deserve the harsh judgment that history will surely impose.
DAVID ELI COCKCROFT Little Rock