The Radical Fringe That Just Went Mainstream in Arizona
The Republican primary has given us the most antidemocratic slate of candidates in America, but can Democratic normies stop them in November?
It might be nice one day to wake up and feel serene—even hopeful—about the state of American politics. To know that all of those people who have been warning about the growing threat to democracy are way ahead of their skis. But today is not that day.
Arizona Republicans are nominating an entire cast of characters who argue not only that Donald Trump the election in 2020, but also that the state’s results should be decertified—a process for which there is no legal basis. These Trump-endorsed candidates—Kari Lake for governor, Mark Finchem for secretary of state, Abraham Hamadeh for attorney general, Blake Masters for senator—all won their respective primaries this week and are now one election
