David Axelrod has a very simple explanation as to why it's bad for GOPers to question election results but it's OK when Dems do it

President Joe Biden is gearing up to preach to the country about the importance of unity. And by “unity,” he means, of course, “uniting Democrats against Republicans, who are basically domestic terrorists.”

And for David Axelrod, this speech couldn’t be coming at a better time:

As the @POTUS prepares to address the nation to discuss threats to our democracy, upwards of 70 percent of Republicans say they don't believe Biden is the legitimately elected president.
That, alone, is a threat to democracy.

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) September 1, 2022

Republicans questioning the results of the 2020 election are a threat to democracy? What about Democrats who questioned — and still question to this day — the results of the 2016 election? Are they a threat to democracy, too?

Just like Democrats in 2016. 67 percent. Why wasn't that a threat to democracy?

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) September 1, 2022

Allow Mr. Axelrod to explain the difference:

Yes, the opposite has been true at times, with Dems doubting the results. But the doubts here have been sowed and amplified, unsupported by facts, by a president who, for the first time in history plotted to undermine a demonstrably free and fair election. That's different. https://t.co/0RAvzK2V0y

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) September 1, 2022

“That’s different.” Look, it just is, OK?

Both Clinton and Biden have claimed that the 2016 election was stolen — as have scores of other elected Democrats. And the entire left-wing establishment went on a four-year crusade spreading the lie that Russians had stolen the election. Why isn't that a threat to democracy?

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) September 1, 2022

Why, David Axelrod? You’re gonna have to do a hell of a lot better than “that’s different.” We know you think it’s different, but why? Just come right out and tell us why.

We already know why, of course, but we wanna hear David Axelrod say it.

I don't think they can see their hypocrisy, in the same way fish don't know that they're in water.

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) September 1, 2022

I’ve come to this view, too.

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) September 1, 2022

It's either that or that they're 100% aware of it and don't care. In fact, they take perverse pleasure in doing it openly and getting away with it. I don't totally discount the later scenario.

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) September 1, 2022