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Election denial of various forms has been a notable and escalating feature of most elections of my adult life. In 2000, Both the Grassroots and elite Blues did not accept the legitimacy of W's victory, and were not shy about saying so; You may have heard of a guy called Michael Moore, he made a documentary alleging (among many other things) that Bush hacked the election. There was less of this in 2004, but it was certainly still present, as was the widespread certainty that Bush would find a way to suspend further elections and rule as a dictator permanently (and no few "just kidding... unless..." references to assassinating him; the inimitable Tim Kreider's "Sic Semper Fuckwads" was a personal favorite, as is 303, a mass-market comic book about how Bush did 9/11 and wouldn't it be neato if a russian spetznaz veteran sniped his head off.)
2008, my side won, but the Reds had the birther conspiracy theory. 2012, I'd mostly checked out on; my side won again, birtherism was spent IIRC, if there was an election meme I wasn't aware of it. 2016, the left went in hard on the election being illegitimate, including through various organs of the federal government coordinating efforts with the media, activist class, and democratic leadership, and 2020 we had "election fortification" and Jan 6th.
To be clear, your claim is that Trump pardoned criminals because they donated to him, and you believe that this is a new low in presidential pardoning?
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