False narratives and conspiracy theories will be ratcheted up from the chaos of the 2020 election. We may look at that debacle as a dry run for 2024. It could very well be an all-or-nothing moment for the MAGA/Republican hate that has been boiling for years.
Baseless claims of election fraud have battered trust in our democracy. Foreign influence campaigns regularly target polarizing domestic challenges. Artificial intelligence has supercharged disinformation efforts and distorted perceptions of reality. All while major social media companies have scaled back their safeguards and downsized election teams.
Almost every democracy is under stress, independent of technology, When you add disinformation on top of that, it just creates many opportunities for mischief." -Darrel M. West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank.
The stakes are enormous!
And yet, Donald Trump and most of his MAGA/Republicans in our government are looking toward the day when our democracy will be a thing of the past.
We have no choice but to approach this 2024 election as not a time to hype a typical election, because it will be anything but typical! It is not a cliché to say "this year's election absolute does matter and its outcome will be with us for a long time.
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