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According to a former pro-Trump lawmaker, President Donald Trump\u2019s greatest legacy is being a sore loser \u2014 and by spreading that mindset to most Republicans, he has eroded American democracy in the process.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI’ve said repeatedly \u2014 ad nauseam \u2014 that Donald Trump’s greatest legacy is the destruction of truth,\u201d former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) said in a podcast posted on Tuesday. \u201cNot a surprise, right, when this good, great, decent country puts into the White House twice somebody who lies every time he opens his mouth.<\/p>\n

Walsh continued that Trump\u2019s \u201cgreatest legacy is not winning twice and not getting to the White House twice. His greatest legacy \u2014 you want to understand Donald Trump’s greatest legacy?<\/p>\n

Here it is: Sixty \u2014 depending on the poll you look at \u2014 60, 70, 80, 90 percent of one of our two major political parties believes right now that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. That right there is Trump’s legacy. That right there is Trump’s greatest legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walsh pointed out that it imperils democracy for a \u201cvast majority\u201d of one of America\u2019s two major parties to believe that whenever their candidate loses, it means the other candidate was cheating.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at what’s happening in California since their primary election last week, it just reaffirms this point,\u201d Walsh explained. \u201cIt expands Trump’s legacy. Not only is Donald Trump’s greatest legacy \u2014 and none of this is good \u2014 his greatest legacy is the destruction of truth. His greatest legacy is that he has turned the Republican Party into a party of sore losers, into a party of election deniers, into a party of democracy haters. Trump’s greatest legacy is convincing Republicans not to accept the results of elections where their candidate loses. His greatest legacy is convincing Republicans that every time their side loses, it was rigged, it was stolen. Trump did that. Trump turned the Republican Party into that. A party that, when they lose now, never lost \u2014 it was stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he added that \u201cthis is so easy to make fun of,\u201d Walsh finds it difficult to do so \u201cbecause I can think of nothing more destructive that Trump has done than convincing one of our two political parties not to accept election losses. I can’t think of anything more destructive to our democracy that Trump has done than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to Trump, every president who lost an election peacefully relinquished power, tracing all the way back to President John Adams in 1800. Speaking with this journalist for Salon in 2019, Harvard law professor and Trump impeachment defense attorney Alan Dershowitz cited this precedent in denying that Trump would try to overturn the 2020 election if he lost.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo president will refuse to step down if his opponent is elected in his place,\u201d Dershowitz told Salon at the time. \u201cIt just will not happen, and the American public would never tolerate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Trump\u2019s claim that the 2020 election was stolen, conservative commentator and former presidential adviser George F. Will broke down in February how Trump\u2019s claims have been thoroughly debunked, including by many Republicans such as his own attorney general, Bill Barr, and his own vice president, Mike Pence.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone should read to him \u2018Lost, Not Stolen,\u2019 a 2022 report by eight conservatives (two former Republican senators, three former federal appellate judges, a former Republican solicitor general, and two Republican election law specialists),\u201d Will explained. \u201cThey examined all 187 counts in the 64 court challenges filed in multiple states by Trump and his supporters. Twenty cases were dismissed before hearings on their merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his supporters before hearings. Of the 30 that reached hearings on the merits, Trump\u2019s side prevailed in only one, Pennsylvania, involving far too few votes to change the state\u2019s result.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will continued, \u201cTrump\u2019s batting average? .016. In Arizona, the most exhaustively scrutinized state, a private firm selected by Trump\u2019s advocates confirmed Trump\u2019s loss, finding 99 additional Biden votes and 261 fewer Trump votes.\u201d Therefore he wrote of Trump, \u201cThe man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May, discussing Trump\u2019s being a sore loser, Walsh said that he believed the president became unforgivable \u201cthe very first time in American history, a sitting American president lost an election and refused to accept the result. I still believe to this day the American people, all of us, no matter anyone’s politics, should have turned their backs on him \u2014 all of us \u2014 and told him to just get the hell out of our lives. We’re done with you. That’s the one thing. Because it’s the thread by which this representative democracy hangs together, keeps it together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walsh added, \u201cSix years later, what still saddens me more than anything else is that the American people did not make him pay for that. The American people did not hold him accountable for that. The American people did not stand up and say: \u2018oh my f \u2014 \u2014 God, this doesn’t happen in America. You’re running for Congress, you’re running for the Senate, you’re running for mayor, you’re running for dog catcher, you’re running for president \u2014 man, woman, whoever you are, you accept the result. You lose, you accept the result.\u2019 Get out of here!\u201d<\/p>\n

He concluded, \u201cThat the American people did not say \u2014 of everything Trump’s done, that with that one, not accepting an election result, that the American people, no matter our political divide, did not stand up and say: \u2018Get lost. How dare you. How dare you attack this representative democracy?\u2019 It’s a \u2014 I don’t mind saying it, and if it offends people, I don’t care \u2014 it will be the one thing that I will never forgive the American people for.\u201d<\/p>\n

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