To Utah’s congressional delegation:
I am writing to you today because I am afraid. I am afraid for the future of my country and its values. I am afraid that you are beholden to a maniacal autocrat, and I am afraid that you have neither the moral backbone nor commitment to our Constitution to stand against him.
You have, in your tenure under the Trump presidency, shown as much. You have allowed him to lie with impunity and have gone along with, and even fomented, conspiracy theories regarding the election. You have told so many lies in his service that you are unable to determine fact from fiction.
There should be no doubt as to the outcome of the 2020 election: Joe Biden won decisively with an Electoral College victory of 306-232 and more than 7 million votes more than President Trump. Yet you act as if this is not the case. You act as if a President-elect Biden is something disputable, as if it were a thought experiment and not an irrefutable fact. You have allowed cranks in Congress to suggest challenging this empirical reality, and by not denouncing their nuttery you have co-signed it.
By allowing doubts to be sown in regard to the election outcome, which both Christopher Krebs and Bill Barr have said was the most secure and there is no evidence of fraud, you are complicit in the degrading of our democracy. I am afraid you are not as committed to the United States of America, its Constitution, and its democratic and republican values as you are committed to the cult of fascistic MAGA nuttery. It is my hope that you will alleviate my fear.
Nick Beckstead, Bountiful
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