It was the basis for not just overturning what they thought they could overturn - the results of that election - but for destroying the foundation of American democracy in itself. 7 or the period leading up to the impeachment, and it was political suicide to do anything other than to accept the Big Lie. For them to survive politically, they had to deny the very words they had said on Jan.

“By March of 2021, Republicans who had gone on the floor of the House of Representatives and the Senate and had deeply attacked the concept around trying to deny the election had completely flipped. Things were moving so fast in the political sphere that the strategy I outline which I call DARF - deny, attack, revenge and fear, these are the four cycles of the political process that would lead us into an insurgency and could put us on the path to civil war - the deny phase came so quickly. You have, right now, one-third of the American electorate in the latest Ipsos poll refuses to believe that Joe Biden was elected president of the United States and that Donald Trump is the legitimate president of the United States. “I think it's been exceptionally effective.

6 attack on the Capitol, quickly changing their narrative On the effectiveness of many Republicans, who first denounced the violent Jan. In his forthcoming book titled 'They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency,' he argues that those who believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen are planning for war - and their movement will either 'lose steam or explode.' Interview Highlights Malcolm Nance, a former military intelligence analyst and an expert on extremism, has been closely following the aspirations of those who falsely believe that the 2020 election was illegitimate. 6, Republicans have been calling any attempt to investigate the origins of that day's violence another politically-motivated witch hunt. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) This article is more than 1 year old.Įver since former President Donald Trump supporters tried to stop the presidential vote from being certified by Congress last Jan. A mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S.

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