.MaddowBlog: Pro-Trump forces in the GOP have concluded that it's time to identify, target, and replace those Republicans who did the right thing in 2020.
[F]ar-right conservatives who preach allegiance to Trump have split with more establishment-aligned Republicans in demanding that Carew's duties be placed under elected County Clerk Katie Lang, who has espoused Trump's stolen-election theory....
Obviously, this is an unsettling story about a small community in Texas, where a local official has been treated unfairly for no good reason. But as In the immediate aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Trump personally leaned on Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, hoping to stop certification of the election results. After initially balking, these local GOP officials ultimately did the right thing.
As such, proponents of this idea tell us, there's no real need to worry. There are systems and institutions in place to protect the integrity of the nation's electoral process."See?" they say."Despite all of the threats and antics from Trump and his followers, democracy held firm."