{"id":119021,"date":"2021-02-05T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119021"},"modified":"2021-02-05T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:43:11","slug":"time-well-funded-cabal-of-powerful-people-saved-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/time-well-funded-cabal-of-powerful-people-saved-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME: \u2018Well-Funded Cabal Of Powerful People\u2019 Saved Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftime-well-funded-cabal-of-powerful-people-saved-democracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119021&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1228027637.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>TIME magazine has <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5936036\/secret-2020-election-campaign\/\">published a lengthy article<\/a>&nbsp;lauding \u201can extraordinary shadow effort\u201d of a conglomeration of entities working together to ensure that the November election would be \u201cfree and fair, credible and uncorrupted.\u201d TIME refers to the effort as \u201ca well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing \u201ca conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes\u201d between \u201cleft-wing activists and business titans\u201d that assured that \u201cforces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump\u2019s assault on democracy,\u201d TIME adds: \u201cThe pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain\u2013inspired by the summer\u2019s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests\u2013in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump\u2019s assault on democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir work touched every aspect of the election,\u201d TIME\u2019s Molly Ball gushes. \u201cThey got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Insisting \u201cTrump and his allies were running their own campaign to spoil the election,\u201d Ball continues, \u201cThe President spent months insisting that mail ballots were a Democratic plot and the election would be \u2018rigged.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ball writes of Trump\u2019s \u201chenchmen\u201d and accuses the Republican Party of a \u201clegacy of suppressive tactics\u201d: \u201cHis henchmen at the state level sought to block their use, while his lawyers brought dozens of spurious suits to make it more difficult to vote\u2013an intensification of the GOP\u2019s legacy of suppressive tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster,\u201d reads the TIME piece, quoting a leader of an advocacy group claiming, \u201cEvery attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated. But it\u2019s massively important for the country to understand that it didn\u2019t happen accidentally. The system didn\u2019t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ball focuses on Mike Podhorzer, senior adviser to the president of the AFL-CIO,&nbsp;\u201cpondering scenarios and talking to experts. It wasn\u2019t hard to find liberals who saw Trump as a dangerous dictator \u2026 Podhorzer began working from his laptop at his kitchen table, holding back-to-back Zoom meetings for hours a day with his network of contacts across the progressive universe: the labor movement; the institutional left, like Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace; resistance groups like Indivisible and MoveOn; progressive data geeks and strategists, representatives of donors and foundations, state-level grassroots organizers, racial-justice activists and others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtecting the election would require an effort of unprecedented scale,\u201d Ball states. \u201cThe first task was overhauling America\u2019s balky election infrastructure \u2026 \u2013in the middle of a pandemic. For the thousands of local, mostly nonpartisan officials who administer elections, the most urgent need was money. They needed protective equipment like masks, gloves and hand sanitizer. They needed to pay for postcards letting people know they could vote absentee\u2013or, in some states, to mail ballots to every voter. They needed additional staff and scanners to process ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ball notes that the Voter Participation Center \u201csent ballot applications to 15 million people in key states, 4.6 million of whom returned them. In mailings and digital ads, the group urged people not to wait for Election Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TIME states, \u201cIn the end, nearly half the electorate cast ballots by mail in 2020, practically a revolution in how people vote. About a quarter voted early in person. Only a quarter of voters cast their ballots the traditional way: in person on Election Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, who has been nominated for Associate Attorney General by President Biden, met with the titans of social media. She said, \u201cIt took pushing, urging, conversations, brainstorming, all of that to get to a place where we ended up with more rigorous rules and enforcement. It was a struggle, but we got to the point where they understood the problem. Was it enough? Probably not. Was it later than we wanted? Yes. But it was really important, given the level of official disinformation, that they had those rules in place and were tagging things and taking them down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a summary of the post-election efforts by the members involved, the TIME report concludes, \u201cDemocracy won in the end. The will of the people prevailed. But it\u2019s crazy, in retrospect, that this is what it took to put on an election in the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIME magazine has published a lengthy article\u00a0lauding \u201can extraordinary shadow effort\u201d of a conglomeration of entities working together to ensure that the November election would be \u201cfree and fair, credible &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892740,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5512,5521,4370,5515,5518,5073],"class_list":["post-119021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cabal","tag-democracy","tag-people","tag-powerful","tag-saved","tag-time"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}